Lemley Family Leadership Lecture
Past Lectures
Featuring
Arthur Horwich ’72, ’75 M.D.
Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 | 5:30 p.m.
Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences, Marcuvitz Auditorium
185 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02912
The talk will be followed by a Q&A and reception.
Registration required.
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Featuring
Award-winning Author, Historian and Journalist Jill Lepore
David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law, Harvard University
Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Salomon Center for Teaching, De Ciccio Auditorium, Room 101
75 Waterman Street
College Green Providence, RI 02906
The talk will be followed by a Q&A and reception.
Registration required.
Featuring
2021 Nobel Prize in Economics Winner Guido Imbens '91 Ph.D.
The Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Salomon Center for Teaching, De Ciccio Auditorium, Room 101
79 Waterman Street
A conversation moderated by Provost Richard M. Locke, Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, will follow the talk.
Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard University, author of “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire”
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, 280 Brook St., Room 101
It’s the most successful economic system to have ever existed, but capitalism is in danger of destroying itself — and our world. In this talk, Professor Rebecca Henderson will get to the heart of what’s wrong with modern capitalism and lay out a pragmatic roadmap for how business can help to catalyze the systemic change we need to build a capitalism that works for everyone.
A conversation moderated by Provost Richard M. Locke, Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, will follow the talk.
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author
Thursday, April 1, 2021
4 p.m.
The event includes a virtual conversation moderated by Amanda Anderson, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English, Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Welcome by Provost Richard M. Locke
Featuring Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D., Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair and Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Thursday, March 4, 2021 4 p.m.
A virtual conversation moderated by President Christina H. Paxson.
Video (accessible to Brown University community through March 31, 2021)