Convocation Series 2011-2012

Convocations are held in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel and are free and open to the public.

Matriculation Convocation

Thursday, September 15, 2011

11:10 a.m.

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr. ’77
“Becoming a Values-Based Leader”
Author of From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership, will share his thoughts on how “doing the right thing” can lead to success.


Thursday, November 3, 2011

11:10 a.m.

Alex Ross
“The Lamento Connection: Bass Lines of Music History”
Music critic for The New Yorker


Thursday, February 2, 2012

11:10 a.m.

Frans de Waal
"Morality Before Religion: Empathy, Fairness and Prosocial Primates"
Primatologist and Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University


Thursday, April 19, 2012

11:10 a.m.

William Deresiewicz
“Through the Vale of Soul-Making: the Journey of the Liberal Arts”
Essayist, literary and cultural critic, and former Associate Professor of English at Yale


Honors Day Convocation

Thursday, May 31, 2012

11:10 a.m.

Jerald Podair
“The Only Life: Liberal Arts and the Life of the Mind at Lawrence”
Professor of History and Robert S. French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University

 

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