Lecture

Award-winning journalist Ann Curry will receive the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism and will deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday, April 5 at the 46th Murrow Symposium. This will be held in the CUB Senior Ballroom and broadcast through our event platform.

The Institute for Shock Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences invite you to the John and Janet Creighton Distinguished Lecture
National Security Challenges in the 21st Century: Deterrence, Bio-Resilience, Energy, and Climate
Presented by: Dr. Kim Budil, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Brian Reed is the host and co-creator of the groundbreaking podcasts S-Town and The Trojan Horse Affair. He will be joining us to discuss the ins and outs of the podcasting world as well as answering your questions.

The 2022 Anjan Bose Lecture, “Incorporating Natural Resource Management into Complex Integrated Modeling Frameworks to Inform Adaptation to Global Change”, will be presented by Prof. Jennifer Adam.
Dr. Adam is the Berry Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the recipient of 2021 Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher award.

Naomi Littlebear Morena is a Chicana lesbian writer and musician who is featured in the seminal third-wave feminist anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Her song, “Can’t Kill the Spirit” has been adopted in protests internationally from England to Nicaragua. In the 1980s, the Greenham Common Peace Camps adopted the song to protest the storing of nuclear cruise missiles, which lasted nearly two decades and was some 30,000 women strong.

Inés Hernández-Ávila (Niimiipuu/Nez Perce and Tejana), Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis, is one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). Her research focuses on the interrelationships between autonomy, the arts, spirit, and social justice, through the study of Native American/Indigenous poetry, U.S./Mexico, with a particular focus on Chiapas. She is a poet, scholar, translator, visual artist, and a member of Luk’upsíimey/The North Star Collective, a group of Niimiipuu creative writers and language workers.