Spencer Trask Lectures
The Spencer Trask Lecture Series was founded in 1891 with a gift of $10,000 from Spencer Trask of the Class of 1866 for the purpose of supporting public lectures at the University on subjects of current philosophical, artistic, or scientific interest.
Notable Lectures
T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Mead
2016-2017 | Salman Rushdie | Private Lives - Literature and Politics in the Modern World
Upcoming Lectures
Adolph Reed
Nov 17, 2021, 5:00 pm
The Farce this Time: Contemporary Race-Reductionism and Lost Cause Ideology
Past Lectures
Money and War -- An American Conversation
Feb 17, 2021, 5:00 pm
Ayad Akhtar, Faisal Devji, and Sadia Abbas