The Lectures Committee supports departments, academic programs and student organizations that bring distinguished lecturers to the UW-Madison campus.
These university-wide lectures must be open to the public; should enrich the general intellectual and cultural life of the university community; and are not primarily supplementary to or extensions of programs of instruction provided by colleges, schools, or departments. Lectures may be presented faced to face or virtually.
The committee does not initiate lecture arrangements. It receives and acts on requests from eligible university groups that are interested in inviting outstanding speakers to the campus.
Lectures Committee funding is generously supplemented by The Anonymous Fund, the College of Letters and Science Jay C. and Ruth Halls Visiting Scholar Fund, Kemper K. Knapp Bequest, the William Fitch Scholarship Fund, and the Meiklejohn Fund.