Street view of the Normal Theater.

Illinois State University Speaker Series

Series Schedule

The Illinois State University Speaker Series seeks to bring innovative and enlightening speakers to the campus with the aim of providing the community with a platform to foster dialogue, cultivate enriching ideas, and continue an appreciation of learning as an active and lifelong process.

Spring 2020

  • Portrait of Angela Rye. Angela Rye
    Political strategist and commentator
    Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Dinner
    6 p.m. January 24
    Doors open at 5 p.m.
    Brown Ballroom, Bone Student Center
    The Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Dinner is sold out.
  • Portrait of Adolph Reed. Adolph L. Reed
    Author and scholar, speaking on Atlanta Child Murder
    Black History Month
    7 p.m. February 13
    Old Main Room, Bone Student Center
  • Portrait of Jennifer Eberhardt. Jennifer L. Eberhardt
    Social Psychologist
    Biased
    7 p.m. March 19 (Postponed)
    Center for the Performaing Arts Concert Hall
  • Portrait of Arlene Stein. Arlene Stein
    Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
    25th Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium
    1 p.m. Keynote March 20 (Cancelled)
    Room 118, Alumni Center
  • Portrait of Margot Lee Shetterly. Margot Lee Shetterly
    Author of “Hidden Figures The Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race”
    7 p.m. April 14
    Brown Ballroom, Bone Student Center
    A book signing will immediately follow the lecture
    20th annual Science and Technology Week
  • Portrait of Donald McHenry. Donald McHenry
    Former Ambassador, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
    Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series
    7 p.m. April 16
    ISU Center for the Performing Arts, Concert Hall