Lauded Writers, Speakers, Thinkers to Visit UM for President’s Lecture Series – Robert Putnam Sept 15

The University of Montana will host a new schedule of President’s Lecture Series speakers slated to bring free, enlivening talks to the campus community this fall.

The lecture series kicks off Monday, Sept. 15, with Robert Putnam’s talk “Making Democracy Work.” Join Putnam, the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, at 7 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom or via livestream. American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. The event is the 2024-25 Lucile Speer Memorial Lecture and Mansfield Center Lecture.

Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006 he received the Skytte Prize, the world’s highest accolade for a political scientist, and in 2012 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal – the nation’s highest honor for contributions to the humanities – by former President Barack Obama.