Purdue University

Presidential Lecture Series

Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series is a cornerstone of the intellectually vibrant community of scholars on our campus. Universities are places where ideas compete and curious minds gather, ...
Indiatimes

Meet Patrick Winston: MIT professor whose one-hour lecture stayed packed for 40 years and it wasn’t about STEM

For decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one lecture stood out not for equations or algorithms, but for a skill that quietly shapes success across every field. Delivered by Patrick ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book of Toni Morrison’s University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist’s Most Important Lessons

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
CNN

Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
The Straits Times

Sunset for traditional lecture halls: How polytechnics are rethinking learning and student spaces

SINGAPORE – A giant green screen, professional video and lighting equipment, and a production control room now make up one of Singapore Polytechnic’s (SP) lecture theatres – a space that, until 2025, ...
Forbes

Google Notebook Rolls Out Lecture Mode With British Flair

The screen displays the inscription ''NotebookLM'' during a meeting between Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on ...
Los Angeles Times

Academic lectures have invaded L.A. bars and tickets are selling out in minutes

On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a purple-lighted stage and stands next to a drum set. Audience members, seated in neat rows and ...
BBC

2. How to start a moral revolution

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution." History, he says can be "a reservoir of hope." He outlines how small groups of people have ...
BBC

2. How to start a moral revolution

4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine. 2 December 2025 Available for over a year Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution." ...
Boston.com

Boston’s hottest ticket? A bar seat for a lecture from a professor.

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...
The Harvard Crimson

Norton Lectures Celebrate 100-Year Anniversary

The Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Harvard University Press hosted a discussion commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the Norton Lectures on ...