Skidmore Lectures

Frederick Lawrence residency: 'Free Speech on Campus in Challenging Times'
Wednesday, March 20
5 p.m.
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

Frederick Lawrence, secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, will deliver a lecture, "Free Speech on Campus in Challenging Times," as part of his three-day residency on freedom of speech, expression, academic freedom, and related issues, March 19-21. Lawrence is an accomplished scholar, teacher, and civil rights attorney and one of the nation’s leading experts on civil rights, free expression, and bias crimes. More information is available online. 

Dunkerley Dialogue with Yvette Molina and Adam Tinkle
Thursday, March 21
7 p.m.
Tang Teaching Museum

Join us for a Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Yvette Molina, whose work is on view in the exhibition "Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves," and Adam Tinkle, associate professor of media and film studies and director of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS). For more information, please visit the Tang Teaching Museum website or contact Olivia Camisa-Frost.

Edwin M. Moseley Faculty Lecture: 'Smiling Pages: Visualizing Dante's Divine Comedy'
Monday, March 25
5:30 p.m.
Gannett Auditorium

Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" has been compared to a Gothic cathedral with its spectacular architectural design and graceful symmetries. In his lecture, Professor of Italian Giuseppe Faustini will endeavor to illustrate Dante's pictorial creativity that has had a significant impact on the visual and preforming arts. Dante's "Comedy" has truly become the privileged subject, a fountain of creativity, that has inspired innumerable artists. For more information, please contact Megan Bove. 

'This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity'
Tuesday, March 26
7:30 p.m.
Emerson Auditorium

Oren Kroll-Zeldin '03 and Ariella Werden-Greenfield '04 discuss their new book, "This is Your Song Too," a collection of essays exploring Jewish identity through the band Phish and their diehard fans. The event is sponsored by the Office of Special Programs, Religious Studies Department, and Music Department. Contact Christine Merrill with questions.

Lester W. Strock Lecture in Geosciences: 'Earthquake or Explosion? History and future of geophysical nuclear explosion monitoring'
Thursday, April 4
5 p.m.
Davis Auditorium

Geophysics Deputy Group Leader of the National Security Earth Science Group in Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Cleveland will explore nuclear explosion signatures in his lecture, "Earthquake or Explosion? History and future of geophysical nuclear explosion monitoring." When the earth shakes anywhere in the world, scientists are interested in what happened: Was it an earthquake, chemical explosion, collapsing mine or was it a nuclear explosion? Cleveland is interested in understanding how explosions produce seismic waves, how those waves travel through the earth, and how they differ from waves produced by earthquakes. Contact Jennifer Cholnoky with questions.

Annual Arthur Zankel Panel: 'The New Wild West of Finance: A Panel Discussion on Cryptocurrency and its Implications'
Thursday, April 11
6:30 p.m.
Davis Auditorium

Panelists will comment on the links between cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, their effects on sovereign currencies and markets, and the politics behind regulating them; a reception will follow. Contact Pushkala Prasad with questions.