Lawrence M. Principe, the Drew Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, delivers this Wheatley Lecture in Civic Virtue entitled, ⿿Scientism and the Religion of Science.⿿

Dr. James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College, delivers this Wheatley Lecture in Civic Virtue entitled, ⿿Science as Cultural Performance: Leveling the Playing Field in the Theology and Science Conversation⿿.

Fred Axelgard, senior fellow at the Wheatley Institution, leads a conversation with students on the effects of tradition and conflict on political, social, and economic development.

Georg Kell, executive director of the UN Global Compact, examines the role of business in development, and as a possible ethical force for good in global affairs.

Lant Pritchett, professor at Harvard University, talks about the consequences of a lack of economic development in the international system, and establishes development as a fourfold transition in rule systems.

Frank Mora of Florida International University, Brad Coleman of Virginia Military Institute, James Siekmeier of West Virginia University, and Mark Grover and Kirk Hawkins of Brigham Young University discuss US and Latin American relations since 9/11.

Prof. Bastiaan van Fraassen, distinguished professor of philosophy at San Francisco State, delivers this Wheatley Lecture in Civic Virtue entitled, ⿿Naturalism in Epistemology.⿿

Stephen H. Webb, professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College, presents the 2012 Truman G. Madsen Lecture on Eternal Man discusses how Christianity today, for all of its global success and growth, remains a divided and fragmented faith.

Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for policy of the U.S., discusses three challenges for the U.S. in 2012: the volatile international environment, budget austerity, and political polarization.

Richard Swinburne, emeritus Nolloth professor of the philosophy of the Christian religion at the University of Oxford, delivers this Wheatley Lecture in Civic Virtue entitled, ⿿Implausibility of Physical Determinism⿿.