Skidmore Speakers Bureau

09/30/2016

Thank you so everyone who helped out with and attended the Jose Antonio Vargas lecture. Make sure to check out his new media platform EmergingUS Keep learning, keep engaging, stay woke.

09/22/2015

Speakers' Bureau is the SGA sub-committee that helps student clubs and organizations and academic de

09/22/2015

Check Out this Page for News and Events for the 2016-2017 school year!

Speakers' Bureau is the SGA sub-committee that helps student clubs and organizations and academic de

02/17/2015

Columbia Journalism Review Profiles Our Spring Keynote, Ta-Nehisi Coates

CJR has a strong profile of Speakers Bureau's first spring keynote speaker, Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic (Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative is our second, in April). Mr. Coates will be at Skidmore on March 5th. Start reading his "online community" through Twitter and his Atlantic blog now.

02/10/2015

Bryan Stevenson on the front page of the NYT http://wp.me/p2Kavj-6v

Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, is featured on the New York Times today for EJI's work to erect memorials on lynching sites. Mr. Stevenson will speak at Skidmore on Wednesday April 1st at 8 PM in Gannett.

09/08/2014

Welcome back!

We’re excited for the start of the new school year! Speakers Bureau exists to provide funding and guidance to students and clubs who are bringing engaging and educational speakers to campus. If you’d like to seek funding from us, please email… [ 46 more words. ]

10/24/2013

Mohammad Abdollahi Lecture, 6pm, Davis, Oct. 24

04/17/2013

Jeff Deskovic: 16 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment

Mark your calendar: Monday April 22nd at 6:30PM in Davis Jeff Deskovic was wrongfully imprisoned at 17, despite a negative DNA test, based upon a coerced, false confession; prosecutorial misconduct; fraud by the medical examiner; and an inept public…

04/17/2013

Zero Percent Film Screening and Discussion

Mark your calendar: Wednesday April 24th at 7:30PM in Davis Zero Percent takes the audience inside Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison’s college program inside Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison. From the outset of the film, we learn that Hudson…

04/09/2013

John Todd: Healing the Planet: A Necessary Imperative?

Mark your calendar: Thursday April 11th at 8PM in Filene John Todd, the famous ecologist, will be visiting Skidmore’s campus. He will be discussing his views and plans for ecological restoration. Todd is the real deal when it comes to applying ecological…

04/09/2013

James W. Ceaser: The American Founding and the Choice of a Foundation

Mark your calendar: Friday April 12th at 8PM in Gannett The Kuroda Symposium in Early American Politics and Culture was established to honor Professor Tadahisa Kuroda’s contribution to American history and pedagogy at Skidmore. It is a collaborative…

04/08/2013

Remembering Fictions - Our Own and Others' Constructions

Mark your calendar: Wednesday April 10th at 5:30PM in Davis This research colloquium includes presentations by Elizabeth Marsh and Alan Scoboria. Each expert’s presentation will be relatively brief (about 25 minutes) followed by an interactive…