The Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lectures
- 1978
- John Leighly, UC Berkeley: "Scholar and Colleague: Homage to Carl Sauer"
- 1979
- John B. Jackson, Harvard University and UC Berkeley: "Landscape as Theater"
- 1980
- Raymond Fosberg, Smithsonian Institution (Botany): "The Story of an Oceanic Mountain Range: The Evolution of Life on an 'Idealized' Pacific Archipelago"
- 1981
- George F. Carter, Texas A&M: "Early Man in America"
- 1983
- Donald W. Meinig, Syracuse University: "The Atlantic World Perspectives on the Making of Colonial America"
- 1984
- Torsten E. Hägerstrand, University of Lund: "The Landscape as Overlapping Neighborhoods: Some Reflections on the Struggle for Existence"
- 1985
- H. Clifford Darby, University of Cambridge: "Domesday Book and Domesday Geography"
- 1986
- James J. Parsons, UC Berkeley: "A Geographer Looks at the San Joaquin Valley"
- 1986
- David R. Stoddart, University of Cambridge: "To Claim the High Ground: Geography for the End of the Century"
- 1988
- Woodrow Borah, UC Berkeley (History): "Identifying the Killers: Old World Diseases in 16th Century Meso-America and the Caribbean"
- 1989
- Karl Butzer, University of Texas: "The Bajio: Mexico's Earliest Colonial Frontier"
- 1990
- David Lowenthal, University College London: "Landscape Without Llamas: Celebrating a Sauerian Tradition"
- 1992
- Peter Haggett, University of Bristol: "Sauer's Origins and Dispersals: Its Implications for the Geography of Disease"
- 1994
- William Denevan, University of Wisconsin: "Prehistoric Riverine Settlement in Amazonia: A Revisionist Perspective, with Contemporary Implications"
- 1995
- Robin Donkin, Cambridge University: "A Servant of Two Masters?"
- 1996
- Yi-Fu Tuan, University of WisconsinMadison: "Escapism: Another Look at Nature and Culture"
- 1998
- Ian Simmons, Durham University: "To Civility and Man's Use": History, Geography and Nature"
- 2000
- Jan Morris, Author, Wales, U.K.: "Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere"