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