Anu Partanen speaks frequently about topics related to her book "The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life," both internationally and in the United States. Read more about this guest speaker and author on their website in Web & Social Media Links.

The lecture celebrates the best in journalism, broadly understood. Stowe was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1930 and one of the early American journalists to raise concerns about Hitler’s rise to power. During World War II, he was a war correspondent. He was a Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan 1956–1969 and died in 1994.