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A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma in September
Purdue University President Mung Chiang and Purdue Convocations will host an exclusive free Presidential Lecture Series event featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma on September 29, 2PM, at Elliott Hall of Music, moderated by PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown. The event explores culture’s role in society through stories and musical interludes. Due to high demand, additional tickets for this and other 2024-2025 Purdue Convocations events will be available starting August 26.
Purdue Convocations Announces its 2024-2025 season
The 2024-2025 Convos Season includes the 29th West Lafayette Global Fest, award-winning jazz and chamber musicians, a curricular integration theatre residency, thought-provoking lectures, family-friendly engagements, and award-winning Broadway musicals and major attractions in Elliott Hall of Music including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Live in Concert, Dear Evan Hansen, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, Hadestown, Pretty Woman: The Musical, and Chicago.
Cellist and humanitarian Yo-Yo Ma to join PBS NewHour’s Jeffrey Brown for Presidential Lecture Series
Renowned cellist, recording artist and humanitarian Yo-Yo Ma and PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang for a special Presidential Lecture Series conversation Sept. 29 in Elliott Hall of Music.
World Food Prize Laureate Catherine Bertini to speak at Purdue
Catherine Bertini will join Purdue President Mitch Daniels for an in-depth discussion on global food security during the Presidential Lecture Series.
George Shultz – Former U.S. Secretary of State, Labor, and Treasury
George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State, Labor, and Treasury, will be featured in the Spring 2016 Presidential Lecture Series with Purdue President Mitch Daniels. The president will lead the hourlong discussion with Shultz, which includes an audience question-and-answer session.
John Schnatter, George Shultz to speak in Presidential Lecture Series
John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John’s Pizza, and four-time U.S. Cabinet member George Shultz will speak in Presidential Lecture Series with Mitch Daniels
Columnist George Will to visit Purdue
Purdue President Mitch Daniels will lead a discussion in December with Washington Post columnist George Will as part of the Presidential Lecture Series.
U.S. Education Secretary to Speak at Purdue
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan discusses how states and local communities are working to increase opportunity from early learning through college.
