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
View Past Convocations at Lawrence, 1978-79 through 2009-10.
