Welcome to University Lectures

Wesleyan University offers lectures throughout the year that celebrate academic excellence and liberal arts education. Lectures take place both on and off campus, and most are free and open to the public. Learn more…

Upcoming Lectures

Monday, October 13, 2008

Bricks and Mortar Clientelism: The Territorial Politics of Service Provision in Lebanon PAC - PAC 422 at 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM

Inventing Human Science, circa 1750 Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Evolutionary Morphology in the 21st century Exley Science Center - ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Gama Jiangcun, Professor, Kangding Teachers College (Khamba University), Kangding, Sichuan, China: The Derge Parkhang in the History of Tibet Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Lecture: Michael Silberstein, "Emergence: Free Will, Self and Experience as Self-Organizing System." Woodhead Lounge at 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM Free

Jan Willis - Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist 45 Broad Street Middletown, CT at 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Free

Wesleyan Writing at the Russell House: Michael Palmer Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM Free

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Dr, Melanie Tallent, "Novel mechanisms of the neuropeptide somatostatin in brain function and disease" Exley Science Center - ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM free

Tsewang Jirme Rinpoche, Director of the Derge Parkhang, Director of the Derge Bureau of Cultural Relics, and a Living Buddha in the Bon School of Tibetan Buddhism: The Derge Parkhang, Foundation Stone for a Living Tibetan Culture Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Book Signing with Jason Pinter author of The Stolen 45 Broad Street Middletown CT at 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Free

Exhibition Opening: Document or Art? Photography in the Long 19th Century, 1839-1914 Davison Art Center - DAC Main Gallery at 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Free and open to the public.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Environmental Symposium - "Where On Earth Are We Going?" Exley Science Center - ESC 150 at 08:30 AM - 12:30 PM Free

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Sunday Salon- Amy Bloom: A Reading & Conversation Green Street Arts Center at 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM $5 ($3 members, seniors & students)

Monday, October 20, 2008

Stephen A. Morrell, Landscape Designer: Lecture Tour of the Freeman Family Japanese Garden Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Music Theory and Humanistic Study: A Brief History and Some Reflections Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Environmental Remote Sensing Exley Science Center - ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Legendary Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci to Speak at Beta Campus-wide at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression Memorial Chapel at 08:00 PM The lecture is free and open to the public.

Wesleyan Writing at the Russell House: Kurt Brown Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM Free

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dr. Daniel Simons, "Corticothalamic feedback and sensory processing in the whisker-to-barrel system" Exley Science Center - ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM free

Saul Friedlander will deliver the COL Philip Hallie Lecture: "Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust" Memorial Chapel at 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM

5th Annual ENZHENG TONG MEMORIAL LECTURE: New Perspectives on the Bronze Age of Sichuan. Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, Associate Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Physics Colloquium Exley Science Center - ESC 58 at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM None

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Paize Keulemans, Assistant Professor, Yale University, Department of East A Listening to the Sounds of Martial Arts Action in Late-Imperial Literature from Beijing Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture: Owen Flanagan, James B Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University. Shanklin - Shanklin 107 at 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM Free

Virgil and Juwil Topazio Lecture. Carleton Watkins: Photography in the Eye of the Beholder CFA Cinema at 05:30 PM Free

Monday, November 03, 2008

Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasure? Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Wesleyan Writing at the Russell House: Michael Ondaatje Memorial Chapel at 08:00 PM Free

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Eiko Otake, Visiting Artist, East Asian Studies and Dance Department, Wesleyan University: Art Making as Sustained Mourning Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

"Between Me and the Other World: Photographs of Urban Africa and the Diaspora" Center for African American Studies Lounge at 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM Free

Friday, November 07, 2008

Panel Discussion: Eye of History: The Camera as Witness CFA Cinema at 04:30 PM Free Admission

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Sunday Salon- Martha Gilmore: Life on Mars? Green Street Arts Center at 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM $5 ($3 members, seniors & students)

Monday, November 10, 2008

Universal Particulars: Space, Contingency, Universality Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

McNair Program - Faculty Research Talk Exley Science Center - ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

COL Work in Progress Series Butterfield - COL Lounge Butterfield C100 at 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Dr. Julie Etterson, "Evolution in response to anthropogenic change" Exley Science Center - ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM free

Jan Willis, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University: Who Pays? New Jindaks for Tibetan Monasteries and Nunneries in the Kathmandu Valley Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Physics Colloquium Exley Science Center - ESC 58 at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM none

Monday, November 17, 2008

The Iraq Insurgency, Terrorism, and the War on Terrorism: A Balance Sheet Woodhead Lounge at 04:30 PM - 07:00 PM Free

Franz Kafka and the State of Exception Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Charles Barber, author of 'Comfortably Numb, How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation', to speak at Beta Campus-wide at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Is a manuscript a mirror? Reality and its reflection in art created for Jews, from medieval to modern PAC - PAC 002 at 04:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Lecture by Prof. David W. Blight PAC - PAC 001 at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Walter Hatch, Assistant Professor of Government, Colby College: FLYING GEESE: HOW ASIA HELPS SHAPE JAPAN Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Physics Colloquium Exley Science Center - ESC 58 at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM None

Monday, November 24, 2008

Numerical Thinking: Evolution and Culture Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Monday, December 01, 2008

Disability Studies and the Boundaries of the Human Russell House - Russell House Millett Room at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Free of charge

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Linda Rosenfeld Pomper: CHINESE PORCELAIN: THE UBIQUITOUS ARTIFACT Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies: Seminar Room at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM This event is free and open to the public.

Physics Colloquium Exley Science Center - ESC 58 at 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM None

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Sunday Salon- Ed Moran: Black Holes in the Milky Way's Backyard Green Street Arts Center at 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM $5 ($3 members, seniors & students)