Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture
The Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture, endowed in 1996 by Murphy Institute alumna Rebecca Yates(‘89) Velander in memory of her mother, is the Murphy Institute’s major public academic event. Designed to promote 
university-wide discussion of issues of current concern, the annual Yates Lecture brings leading thinkers and public figures to the Tulane campus.
Past Mary C. Parker Yates Lectures
Anne Krueger
“In Praise of Globalization”
W. Kip Viscusi
“What’s a Life Worth?”
Joseph E. Stiglitz
“Fair Trade For All”
Craig N. Murphy
“A Better Way? The Marshall Plan and the UN Development Model After 9/11”
Michael Freeden
“The Many Faces of Liberalism”
Michael Ignatieff
“The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror”
David Greenaway
“Can the European Union Afford the Euro and Enlargement in the East?”
Michael S. McPherson
“The American College as Democratic Institution”
Stefan Collini
“The Authority of the Academy: Intellectuals and Their Publics in the 20th Century”
Charles Noble
“The Haunting of the American Welfare State”
Jackson Lears
“The Gambler’s Grail: Grace, Luck, and Fortune in American Cultural History”
Alberto Alesina
“Economic Integration and Political Disintegration”