Spring 2026 Printable Schedule
Tuesday, February 3, 2026 – 7 p.m.
Black History Month Conversation
The Psychology of Belonging: Navigating Identity on a College Campus
Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Monday, February 9, 2026 – 5 p.m.
By the Power Vested in Me
A Book Talk by Author Michael Stambolis-Ruhstrofer ’04
Stern Center, Great Room
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 – 7 p.m. ♦
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
Democracy and the Arts
Shannon Jackson, UC Berkeley
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Thursday, February 26, 2026 – 7 p.m. *
Real-World Effects of AI
Panel Discussion
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 – 7 p.m. +
Bruce R. Andrews Lecture
Combating Online Harms: The Importance of Rigorous Scientific Testing of Proposed Interventions
Joshua A. Tucker, New York University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 – 7 p.m.
Finding Unity in History: Our Community Process Recovering Victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Phoebe R. Stubblefield, C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of Florida
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 – 7 p.m.
The Archive
Neta Pulvermacher, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD)
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 – 7 p.m. *
The World As We Would Have It Be: Collective Thriving in the Timeplace of Collapse
Norma Kawelokū Wong, Native Hawaiian and Hakka Writer/Teacher, Zen master, and Political Strategist
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Monday, April 13, 2026 – 7 p.m. +
The Canary in the Coal Mine: The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Collapse of the Post WWII International Order
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Monday, April 20, 2026 – 7 p.m. +
Muslim France and the Contradictions of Laïcité: A History of the Present
Mayanthi Fernando, UC Santa Cruz
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Thursday, April 23, 2026 – 7 p.m.
The Power of Language: How Knowing More Than One Language Transforms the Mind and Society
Viorica Marian, Northwestern University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
* Denotes programs that are part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty series
+ Denotes a student-initiated program
♦ Denotes a program that is part of our annual theme, Thought Experiments