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

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sunday Salon- Indira Karamcheti: Reading the Nobel Prize Writers
Green Street Performance Studio at 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
$3 members, $5 non-members

Monday, November 23, 2009
Why Civil Resistance Works: Nonviolent Resistance as an Alternative to Armed Insurgency by Erica Chenoweth, Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Monday, November 30, 2009
George Shultz at the Negotiations Table by Ronald Schatz, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Econ. Dept. Seminar
PAC 125 at 04:10 PM - 06:10 PM

Program Talks
Wasch Center Butterfield Room at 04:15 PM - 06:15 PM

Thursday, December 03, 2009
Faculty Lunch Series
Usdan 300 (Daniel FC & Lounge) at 11:30 AM - 01:15 PM

Dr. Roger Traub, "Very fast oscillations in the brain (>80 Hz) and neuronal gap junctions"
ESC 121 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
free

FEAS: Kim Kono Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Smith College
FEAS Seminar Room (Mary Houghton Freeman Room) at 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public.

PHYS-521-01 Physics Colloquium I
ESC 058 at 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Friday, December 04, 2009
Chemistry Symposia I, Prof. Matthew Zimmt, Brown University TBA
Hall-Atwater 84 (Hayes Applera Corporation) at 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Monday, December 07, 2009
An Wei, President, Edgar & Helen Snow Center, Sino-American Society Xian, China: "Education and Grassroots Democracy in Rural China Today"
FEAS Seminar Room (Mary Houghton Freeman Room) at 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
This event is free and open to the public.

Mourning War: A Story of Love and Greed in British America by Kirk Swinehart, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Russell House All Rooms at 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Econ. Dept. Seminar
PAC 125 at 04:10 PM - 06:10 PM

Thursday, December 10, 2009
PHYS-521-01 Physics Colloquium I
ESC 058 at 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Writers Out loud: Literary Open Mic
Green Street Performance Studio at 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
$3 members, $5 non-members

Friday, December 18, 2009
Winter Solstice Celebration
Green Street Performance Studio at 05:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Free

Thursday, February 04, 2010
Faculty Lunch Series
Usdan 300 (Daniel FC & Lounge) at 11:30 AM - 01:15 PM

Thursday, April 01, 2010
Faculty Lunch Series
Usdan 300 (Daniel FC & Lounge) at 11:30 AM - 01:15 PM

Thursday, May 06, 2010
Faculty Lunch Series
Usdan 300 (Daniel FC & Lounge) at 11:30 AM - 01:15 PM

Monday, January 10, 2011
This is a test film screening
PAC 002 (Class of 1965 Classroom) at 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM