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Speaker Series

The President's Speaker Series brings nationally known scientists, political leaders, and writers to campus. Past speakers in the series include Maya Angelou, Elie Wiesel, and Frank McCourt.

The President's Speaker Series takes place in the Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall.

Reserved Seating: Orchestra $27 / Balcony $22

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Steve Forbes

Saturday, October 20, 2018 • 8:00 pm
Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall, Philips Memorial Building
Orchestra $27 | Balcony $22

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Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, and an internationally respected authority in the worlds of economics, finance, and corporate leadership. With the economy at the forefront of conversation on a global level, Mr. Forbes offers long-standing insights that capitalism, free markets, and a flat tax are essential to a healthy economy. This is a message Mr. Forbes has been delivering as editor of one of the world’s most successful business magazines for decades, and he continues to be one of the most sought-after speakers on this and other economic issues leading the economic debates around the world.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Saturday, March 23, 2019 • 8:00 pm
Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall, Philips Memorial Building
Orchestra $27 | Balcony $22

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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She is the author of six critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books, including her most recent, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (November, 2013). Winner of the Carnegie Medal, The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners has acquired the film and television rights to the book.