
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
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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. -
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 -
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Social Psychologist
Biased
7 p.m. March 19 (Postponed)
Center for the Performaing Arts Concert Hall -
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 -
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 -
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