Upcoming University and Messenger Lectures

University Lecturer

Lawrence Wein is The Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. He also is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, Graduate School of Business. His main research interests are in operations management and public health with his primary current interest on solving violent crimes, with a focus on ballistic imaging, sexual assault kits and forensic investigative genetic genealogy.

Lecture Title: “TBD”
Date: Fall 2025
Time: TBD
Place: TBD

Messenger Lecturer

Professor Ludovic Orlando, HDR, PhD, Agrégé, Normalien, Director, Centre for Anthropobiology & Genomics of Toulouse, CAGT, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France, is one of the world’s leading scientists who study ancient DNA. His published work over the past decade has provided paradigm-changing insights into the evolution and domestication of the horse and the contributions of the horse to human civilization.

Lecture Titles: “The Ancient DNA revolution in human evolution,” “The horse before and after our shared history, ” and “Environmental DNA: time capsules of past and present life”
Date: Spring 2026, week of April 20, 2026
Time: TBD
Place: TBD

Messenger Lecturer

Professor Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, former President of Iceland (2016–2024) and current Professor of History at the University of Iceland.

Spring 2026

University Lecturer

Dr. Britt Wray, director of Stanford University’s “CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry”

Spring 2027