Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences offers a wide range of endowed lectures on a variety of topics that are interesting, timely, and important to the greater Lehigh community. These lectures allow students, faculty, and staff to learn from distinguished scholars and meet extraordinary people from around the world.
Connell Lecture
From the department of religion, this lecture series is held annually and explores spiritual topics relevant to today’s world.
Past Speakers
James K.A. Smith
The Secular is Haunted
James K.A. Smith
The Secular is Haunted
Kenner Lecture
The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is one of the premier events on Lehigh’s calendar. It was established in 1997 by Mr. Jeffrey (Jeff) L. Kenner, who was a member of the class of 1965 as an industrial engineering major before he earned a second degree in business in 1966. The Kenner Lecture routinely brings to campus speakers that defies our commonly held views and challenges us to see things from a new perspective.
The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is one of the premier events on Lehigh’s calendar. It was established in 1997 by Mr. Jeffrey (Jeff) L. Kenner, who was a member of the class of 1965 as an industrial engineering major before he earned a second degree in business in 1966. The Kenner Lecture routinely brings to campus speakers that defies our commonly held views and challenges us to see things from a new perspective.
Past Speakers
Anne Applebaum (2022)
Disinformation and the Threat to Democratic Institutions
Anne Applebaum (2022)
Disinformation and the Threat to Democratic Institutions
Ezra Klein (2021)
What We Can Do About Toxic Polarization
What We Can Do About Toxic Polarization
David Ignatius (2020)
New World Disorder: Snapshots from a Journalist's Notebook
New World Disorder: Snapshots from a Journalist's Notebook
Charlie Dent (2019)
A View from the Trenches: The Politics of Anger and What Challenges Centrist Problem Solvers
Judy Woodruff (2018)
Speaking Across Political Differences Today in America
Pitcher Lecture
Held annually, this lecture series in honor of A. Everett Pitcher. Pitcher was secretary of the AMS from 1967 until 1988, and served in the mathematics department here at Lehigh from 1938 until 1978, when he retired as distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He died on December 4, 2006 at the age of 94.
Past Speakers
Sir Simon K. Donaldson (2023)
Moduli spaces of geometric structures, old and new
Moduli spaces of geometric structures, old and new
Richard S. Hamilton (2019)
The Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture
Kannan Soundararajan (2017)
Primes Fall for the Gambler's Fallacy
Primes Fall for the Gambler's Fallacy
Selfridge Lecture
The Selfridge Lectures in Philosophy are made possible by the bequest of the late Charles W. MacFarlane, C.E. 1876, PhD Freiburg 1893, LL.D. Lehigh 1922. Being deeply interested in philosophy and economics, Dr. Macfarlane left his entire estate to Lehigh University, directing that the income be used to maintain the MacFarlane Professorship for Theoretic Economics and the Selfridge Professorship of Pure Philosophy. The Selfridge Lecture is an annual program sponsored by the philosophy department which brings a different philosophy scholar to Lehigh for one week each year.
Tresolini Lecture
The Rocco J. Tresolini Lectureship in Law was established in 1978, in memory of one of Lehigh’s most distinguished teachers and scholars, Rocco Tresolini (1920-1967), who served as professor and chair of the Department of Government.
The Rocco J. Tresolini Lectureship in Law was established in 1978, in memory of one of Lehigh’s most distinguished teachers and scholars, Rocco Tresolini (1920-1967), who served as professor and chair of the Department of Government.
Past Speakers
Tarana Burke (2022)
Tarana Burke (2022)
An Evening with Tarana Burke; Founder of the me too. Movement
Mary Anne Frank (2021)
The Faithless Constitution: Rights and Responsibilities in the 21st Century
The Faithless Constitution: Rights and Responsibilities in the 21st Century
Carl Bernstein (2019)
The Search for the 'Best Obtainable Version of the Truth'
The Search for the 'Best Obtainable Version of the Truth'
Jay Cost (2108)
James Madison, Alexander Hamliton, and the Struggle for Republican Government.
Julian Sanchez (2017)
The Fourth Amendment & Electronic Surveillance
The Fourth Amendment & Electronic Surveillance
