Each year, Denison offers special, one-of-a-kind opportunities to engage the arts and sciences through extraordinary lectures, performances, exhibitions, and academic programming.
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The Reid & Polly Anderson Lecture Series is an annual convocation featuring a top scientist in their field.
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The Babcock Lecture brings prominent conservative speakers to campus to interpret the American conservative heritage.
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The Beck Series provides students the opportunity to hear, study with, and engage some this country’s finest writers.
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The Bluegrass Festival features several renowned performers as well as workshops and rehearsal experiences to showcase the very best of bluegrass.
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The Global Studies Seminar is an interdisciplinary forum for the campus to discuss and debate academic and policy issues of global importance.
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The Goodspeed Lecture brings credentialed scholars related to Religious Studies to deliver an all-campus convocation lecture.
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The Gordon Lecture Series honors Doris Gilbert Gordon, high school teacher and friend of Denison who had a great love of mathematics.
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The Music Department proudly hosts the longest continually running Jazz Guitar Festival in the United States.
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The Kantor Lecture brings eminent psychologists to campus for several days for lectures to the Psychology Department and campus, and to meet with students
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The Laura C. Harris Series promotes the education of young women as students and as professionals.
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The biennial Lugar Lecture Series brings prominent public servants to the campus to address issues of national and international concern.
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Minds Wide Open is a series of conversations and presentations by local, national, and international scholars and authors.
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The Ronneberg Lectureship was endowed in 1981 as a means to bring to campus outstanding scientists to lecture on a diverse range of topics.
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The TUTTI Festival is a celebration of original works by musicians, composers, fine artists, dance artists, theatre, and creative people across
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The Vail Series brings the highest caliber artists to the college. Performers have included Béla Fleck, Bobby McFerrin, and Yo-Yo Ma.