Convocations are held in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel and are free and open to the public.

Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
“The State of the University: Challenges and Opportunities”

Thursday, September 17, 2009
11:10 a.m.

Faculty Convocation
Marcia Bjørnerud
Lawrence University professor of geology and Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies
“Geomimicry: Good Design from the Earth”

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:10 a.m.

Adam Werbach
Environmental Activist and Sustainability Expert
"Strategy for Sustainability"

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
11:10 a.m.

Rebecca Solnit
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Swimming Upstream in History: Hope, Disaster, Utopia"

Thursday, April 8, 2010
11:10 a.m.

Robert Hartwell '69
Vermont State Senator
“America at the Crossroads: Accepting the Climate Change Challenge”

Thursday, May 20, 2010
11:10 a.m.

 

View Past Convocations at Lawrence, 1978-79 through 2008-09.