Category: Presidential Lecture Series

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.

A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma in SeptemberAdditional Seats Now Available for Upcoming EventsFREE TICKETS Purdue University President Mung Chiang, Purdue Convocations, and the Purdue Presidential Lecture Series are thrilled to present an exclusive FREE event featuring the legendary cellist Yo-Yo...

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.

Purdue Convocations announces its 2024-2025 seasonTickets Now Available All tickets for theatre, music, and national Broadway tours are now on sale to the general public and Friends of Convocations. Purdue Convocations presents its 122nd Season with a lineup of innovative projects...

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.

Purdue University President Mung Chiang and the Purdue Presidential Lecture Series present the renowned cellist, recording artist and humanitarian Yo-Yo Ma in a special engagement moderated by PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown. Through personal anecdotes, thoughtful inquiry and musical interludes, Yo-Yo...

Catherine Bertini will join Purdue President Mitch Daniels for an in-depth discussion on global food security during the Presidential Lecture Series.

Catherine Bertini, former executive director of the United Nations World Food Program and 2003 World Food Prize Laureate, will join Purdue University President Mitch Daniels for an in-depth discussion on global food security during the opening program of Purdue’s 2017...

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.

George Pratt Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, academia, and business. He is one of just two individuals who have held four different federal cabinet posts; he was a U.S. Marine during World War II, he has taught...

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

John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John's Pizza, and former secretary of state and labor George Shultz will be featured in the Spring 2016 Presidential Lecture Series. The Presidential Lecture Series is a diverse series of lectures on policy,...

Purdue President Mitch Daniels will lead a discussion in December with Washington Post columnist George Will as part of the Presidential Lecture Series.

Washington Post columnist George Will and Purdue President Mitch Daniels will lead an hour-long discussion, including an audience question and answer session, in the next Purdue Presidential Lecture Series event. The event will be at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan discusses how states and local communities are working to increase opportunity from early learning through college.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will speak on Sept. 16 at Purdue University as part of the Fall 2015 Presidential Lecture Series. Duncan will give a talk at 2:15 p.m. in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse that will be free and...