The College of Arts and Sciences has announced the schedule for its Fall 2025 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series. The series will begin on Monday, October 20, with a presentation titled “From Seaweed to Sovereignty: Shinnecock Kelp Farmers and Indigenous-Led Climate Solutions.” Members of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers Collective, including Danielle Hopson Begun, Donna Collins-Smith, and Rebecca Genia, will participate in this event. The lecture is co-sponsored by several university groups, such as the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Humanities Institute, Department of Art, Collaborative for the Earth, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery.
Two additional lectures are scheduled for Friday, November 14. At 10:30 am, Professor Kingsley Bolton from the University of Stockholm and Ateneo de Manila University will present “Asian Multilingualism, the English language, and the Scholarly Contributions of Professors S.N. Sridhar and Kamal K. Sridhar.” This event is presented by the Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication and Mattoo Center for India Studies, with co-organization from the Departments of Asian and Asian American Studies and Linguistics. The lecture is part of the 2025 MIC Symposium on Multilingualism, which honors Professors S.N. Sridhar and Kamal Sridhar.
Later that day at 4:00 pm, Dr. Sarah E. Reisman, Bren Professor of Chemistry and Norman Davidson Leadership Chair at the California Institute of Technology, will give a lecture titled “Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire.” This event is presented by the Department of Chemistry.
The Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series is supported by an endowment established in 1985 after a HK$1 million gift from the Shaw Foundation Hong Kong Limited to the College of Arts and Sciences. The endowment was created through the efforts of CN Yang, Einstein Professor of Physics, and President Marburger, making it one of the earliest endowments set up by the Stony Brook Foundation. The proceeds from this fund continue to support lectures within the College of Arts and Sciences.