May 4, 2020
Jones Visiting Lecturer on Media Cacophony
Siva Vaidhyanathan shared how today's media system disrupts healthy communication, amplifies nonsense, and fails to support thoughtful deliberation.
Lectures
Mar 13, 2020
Catching the Moon
Retired NASA engineer Jeffrey Hamilton reignites thrill of America’s space program during American Society of Mechanical Engineers talk at Lafayette…
Mar 5, 2020
A Poetic Life, Projected
Manual Cinema performed a piece on the life of poet Gwendolyn Brooks as part of the Williams Center performance series.
Feb 26, 2020
Defending DACA
Lawyer Stuart Delery P’23 spoke about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case that is before the Supreme Court.
Feb 24, 2020
A Story of Survival and Faith
Criminal justice reform advocate Yusef Salaam, one of the "Exonerated Five," gave the Black Heritage Month keynote address.
Jan 14, 2020
In Case You Missed It: The Semester in Lectures
Links to a handful of the top campus lectures delivered during the fall 2019 semester.
Dec 9, 2019
Paper: A Common Bond
Author and bibliophile Nicholas Basbanes lectured about his book On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History.
Nov 26, 2019
Words from The Office
Brian Baumgartner, who portrayed Kevin Malone on the iconic comedy, talked to a packed Colton Chapel audience.
Nov 22, 2019
Forbidden Stories
Artist and scholar Xiaoze Xie presents his work and lectures on the evolution of his oeuvre about libraries, banned books at Skillman Library.
Nov 20, 2019
Elevating Entrepreneurship
New Entrepreneur-in-Residence program will enable Lafayette to bring entrepreneurial leaders to campus to share their knowledge and networks.