Speaker Series
Our University brings Bucknell to the world and the world to Bucknell, including speakers from all disciplines who help make this connection.
Departments across the University's curriculum regularly host outstanding speakers, including various colloquia in the humanities, society and technology, and social science, as well as other disciplines, that bring nationally and internationally renowned guests to campus to talk with students and the campus community about issues affecting our world.
This national speakers series began in fall 2007 to focus on major issues facing America and the world. Guests have already included beloved newsman Tim Russert, renowned investor Jim Cramer, distinguished presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Nobel Laureate F. W. de Klerk, environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and award-winning author Niall Ferguson.
This year's theme for the Bucknell Forum is "Creativity: Beyond the Box." The series will feature individuals from a wide range of fields who not only exemplify creativity as practitioners, but who also can provide thoughtful and insightful commentary or interactive experiences on new ways of being creative.
Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters
The Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters is an award given annually to honor and recognize an individual who represents the very highest level of achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, non-fiction, or biography.
Historian Robert A. Caro, author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Moses, has been named the 2011 Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters. Caro will speak Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
Sponsored by Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, this series facilitates university-wide discussion of issues of race, ethnicity, and gender.
The Fall 2011 lecture is by historian Ben Vinson. His Sept. 20, 2011, talk is, "Black Synergies: Surveying Afromexican History with African American Linkages."
In recognition of the United Nation's declaration of 2011 as the International Year of People of African Descent, this year's Social Science Colloquium will examine the histories and contemporary experiences, identities, and cultural products of Afro-Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The fall 2011 theme is Shades of Black and Brown: Afro-Latino/a Interactions.
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