Archive of Lecturers

Since 1936, nearly 200 artists, scholars, intellectuals, and leaders have shared their ideas with Indiana University and the Bloomington community as part of the Patten Lecture series. See the full list of lecturers below, or view a list you can sort alphabetically or by year.

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2018—Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania

Recognizing and Debunking Political Deception and Viral Deception (‘Fake News’)
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Communicating Sound Science in a Polarized Age
Thursday, Mar. 1, 2018 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Andrew Knoll

Fisher Professor of Natural History, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Life on a Young Planet
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 - 7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Rawles Hall 100

Meridiani, Opportunity, and the Search for Life on Mars
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 - 7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Rawles Hall 100

2016—Jill Lepore

David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard University

Unseen: From mystery to privacy
Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2016 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Unknown: From facts to data
Thursday, Mar. 31, 2016 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

W. J. T. Mitchell

Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

IMAGES AND OTHERS Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin
Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Rawles Hall 100

IMAGES AND OTHERS Migration, Law, and the Image: Beyond the Veil of Ignorance
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 - 7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Rawles Hall 100

Frances Moore-Lappé

Author and activist; co-founder of Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund

VIRTUAL EVENT: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Diet for a Small Planet: A Conversation with Frances Moore Lappé
Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 - 12-1:30pm
Zoom Event

Diet for a Small Planet: From Choice to Necessity
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021 - 7:30pm
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Hiding in the Climate Crisis: Honest Hope in Democratic Action
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021 - 7:30pm
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Cherríe Moraga

Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara

"Unbound Tongues," Radical Women of Color Feminism Revisited
Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2022 - 7:30pm
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

"The Bookends of My Life," a reading with commentary
Thursday, Sep. 15, 2022 - 7:30pm
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

2017—Franco Moretti

Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University

Patterns and Interpretation
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Totentanz. Operationalizing Aby Warburg’s Atlas of images
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

2017—Paul Muldoon

Poet; Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities; Director, Princeton Atelier; Professor Of Creative Writing, Princeton University

Sadie and the Sadists: A Reading of New Poems and Song Lyrics
Tuesday, Sep. 12, 2017 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

The Specter at the Feast: James Joyce’s "The Dead”
Thursday, Sep. 14, 2017 - 7:30–9 p.m.
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Susan Neiman

Director, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany

VIRTUAL EVENT: Monuments, History, and Value: What We Can Learn from Germany about Facing a Racist Past
Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2020 - 12-1:30pm
Zoom event

Susan Neiman

Director, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany

What I learned since I wrote Learning from the Germans
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023 - 7:30pm
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Left is not Woke
Thursday, Mar. 2, 2023 - 7:30pm
Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

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