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American statesman Sen. George J. Mitchell will return to ���ϲ����� on Tuesday, Nov. 12, to discuss prospects for global peace and how (or if) the world has changed in the 25 years since the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of…

No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal as Billy Collins.

Over his long and illustrious career, Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang has masterfully brought complicated characters, relationships and issues to life on stage—from Rene Gallimard and Song Liling in “M. Butterfly,” to an early 20th century Chinese family facing…

Over a seven-year period—through millions and millions of camera clicks made in some of the Earth’s harshest conditions—renowned environmental photographer James Balog captured undeniable evidence of our changing planet.

It was the proverbial line in the sand, and rarely crossed. And according to political journalist Ron Brownstein, it went something like this: “Those who worked with their hands voted Democrat,” he said. “And people who wore suits, would vote…

Randy Cohen, Emmy Award-winning writer and humorist and author of “The Ethicist” column in The New York Times Magazine, will visit ���ϲ����� Oct. 19 as the next guest of the University Lectures series.

As the 2010 election season kicks into high gear, the University Lectures series will welcome Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Tuesday, Oct. 12, to explore the meanings within presidential speeches with an emphasis on the history of American oratory in the broad terms of politics, media and culture

Majora Carter, green economic strategist, television and radio host and president of the Majora Carter Group, LLC, will kick off a spectacular 10th season of the University Lectures series on Tuesday, Sept. 21.

The long-term impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be explored in a special University Lectures presentation at ���ϲ����� on Tuesday, Oct. 26.

Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in literature, poet, translator and essayist, will be a guest of the University Lectures series at ���ϲ����� on Tuesday, April 13.