Lectures and Performances

Editor of Poetry Magazine Don Share, Lake Forest College English majors, and faculty honor the work of a great American poet, Philip Levine. Recorded March 27, 2015. Philip Levine videos used with permission from Page Meets Stage.

Lake Forest College’s monthly reading series gets dirty for DIG IT!, the 11th Annual Lake Forest Literary Festival.

Recorded March 26, 2015.

Keynote reading by poet Maxine Chernoff.

Recorded March 23, 2015 in Glen Rowan House, Lake Forest College.

Reading by Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer in Residence Christopher Perez at Meyer Auditorium.

Recorded March 23, 2015 in Meyer Auditorium at Lake Forest College.

Professor Cynthia Hahn will discuss her new bilingual self-translated book of poetry, "Co-ïncidences" (alfAbarre). "Co-ïncidences" is a collaboration between Hahn and Parisian artist-illustrator, Monique Loubet.

Recorded Tuesday, March 17, 2015 in Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College.

The 2015 Ruth Winter lecturer is Gus Speth, environmentalist, author, and former Dean of Forestry at Yale University. Titled “Environmental Renaissance: The Need for Something New,” his talk will discuss the imperative of a new global environmentalism.

Speth is the author of several books about the environment, including The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy, both from Yale University Press. His latest work, published in 2014, is a memoir titled Angels by the River, published by Chelsea Green Publishing.

Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America’s Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Blue Planet Prize.

Speth has been a leader or participant in many task forces and committees aimed at combatting environmental degradation, including the President’s Task Force on Global Resources and Environment, the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development, and the National Commission on the Environment.

The Ruth Winter Lecture series is named in honor of the late Ruth Winter, a dynamic director of student activities at Lake Forest College for many years. During her tenure, Ms. Winter was instrumental in bringing many prominent speakers to the College, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Katherine Hepburn, and Dag Hammarskjold.

In the spirit of Ruth Winter, this annual lecture features a speaker who is politically, socially and culturally engaged in his or her community. In recent years, Winter lecturers have included author and hunger expert Roger Thurow, Inspector General for the City of Chicago Joe Ferguson ’82, and film director John Waters, among many others.

Recorded March 17, 2015 in Lily Reid Holt Chapel, Lake Forest College.

Over the next few years the Johnson-Dixon Science Center will undergo a $40 million renovation and addition project. This initiative will transform the Science Center into a 130,000 square foot state-of-the-art research and teaching facility to accommodate the multi-disciplinary needs of the biology, chemistry, physics, and psychology departments, as well as the environmental studies and neuroscience programs. To assist with the project, the College has engaged the architectural firm Stantec to provide design services and Pepper Construction to serve as the general contractor. Pepper Construction served as the contractor on the recent expansion and renovation of our Sports and Recreation Center.

Michael Reagan, the senior architect on this project, provided an information session on Thursday, January 29, 12:00-1:00 PM in McCormick Auditorium for all students, staff, and faculty.

Slated for completion in 2017, the new Science Center will provide:

· A consolidated facility to allow for research and exploration across the disciplines.

· Increased capacity to support faculty-student collaborative research.

· State-of the art equipment in labs to facilitate hands-on training in the use of modern instrumentation.

· Expansion of teaching lab capacity with 21st century flexible teaching labs to support the latest pedagogies and discussion-based inquiry.

· Versatile modern spaces to facilitate collaboration among students through group work and breakout sessions as well as informal interaction.

· Additional faculty office and research lab space.

Presentation and Q/A session with author and environmentalist Paul Bogard, author of The end of night : searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light.

Recorded Friday, December 05, 2014 at 1:30:02 PM