Presidential Lecture Series
About this Series
The Presidential Lecture is an annual program series that features distinguished guests from outside the Columbia community to address a wide range of national and global issues. The program provides a forum for public discourse as part of the University’s commitment to critical inquiry and intellectual freedom. Issues have ranged from civil liberties in wartime to diversity and higher education to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Date:
October 30, 2008 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm EDT
Location:
Columbia University Morningside Campus The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Teatro
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will deliver a Presidential Lecture entitled, "Climate, Oceans, Infectious Disease, and Human Health: The Saga of Cholera."
Date:
November 29, 2006 from 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm EST
Location:
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
Orhan Pamuk, the internationally acclaimed Turkish novelist and memoirist, was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mr. Pamuk is a fellow with Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought.
Date:
March 8, 2006 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EST
Location:
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
Ruth Simmons, President of Brown University, addressed the complicated issue of diversity in higher education, citing scholastic diversity as a mechanism to counteract racism and build better democracies.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/04/simmons.html
Date:
September 22, 2005 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EDT
Location:
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
Itamar Rabinovich, President of Tel Aviv University, explored the depths of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the tremendous effort and leadership needed to broker peace between the two, despite the encouraging disengagement of Israel from Gaza.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/09/Tel_Avivz_University.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/09/Tel_Avivz_University.html