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[title size=”1″]Programming Distinguished Speakers at University of California, Davis [/title]

Dave programmed eleven seasons of the Distinguished Speakers Series at UC Davis, making him the most experienced lecture programmer in the region. He was President, 2009-2010, of THE Forum, an international consortium of lecture presenters. Dave programmed a series pairing visiting artists with faculty for the Forum@MC and created  the Backstage Bookclub. Featured speaker at Western Arts Alliance six times.

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[testimonial name=”Brian McCurdy” gender=”male company=”Former Executive Director, 
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis” link=”” target=””]“Dave Webb programmed Mondavi Center’s Distinguished Speakers Series for 11 seasons, longer than anyone else in the department’s history. In bringing speakers with panache, intellect and celebrity— ranging from President William Clinton to Toni Morrison, from Dr. Jane Goodall to Salman Rushdie, from Bob Woodward to Terry Gross— Dave demonstrated both a keen grasp of the speaker’s circuit and of our audience, assembling a series that was consistently one of Mondavi Center’s best-sellers, and one that helped brand Mondavi Center not only as a place of the arts, but of ideas.”[/testimonial]
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LECTURERS

Andrew Weil
Anna Deavere Smith
Anne Fadiman
Anne Lamott
Arianna Huffington
Azar Nafisi
Beck Weathers
Bob Arnot/ Joseph Wilson
Bob Woodward
Christopher Gardner
Cornel West
David Plouffe
Dr. James Watson
E.O. Wilson
Eric Weiner
Garrison Keillor
George Mitchell
Harry Wu
Ira Glass
Ishmael Beah
Jane Alexander
Jane Goodall
Janet Reno
Jared Diamond
Jeffrey Toobin
Jehan Sadat
John Cleese
Jonathan Kozol
Karen Hughes
Ken Burns
Khaled Hosseini
Kim Phuc
Kweisi Mfume
Lech Walesa
Luis Urrea
Michael Chabon
Michael Moore
Michael Pollan
Mira Nair
Nina Totenberg
P.J. O’Rourke
Paul Haggis
Paul Rusesabagina
Richard Florida
Robert Ballard
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
Salman Rushdie
Senator John Edwards
Senator Robert Dole
Seymour Hersh
Sherman Alexie
Sister Helen Prejean
Stephen Hawking
Steven Pinker
Susan Faludi
Terry Gross
Tom Wolfe
Toni Morrison
Tony Kushner/Frank Rich
Tracy Kidder
William Clinton

ARTISTS