The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Memorial Lecture was established in 2015 by Lee Alston, director of the Ostrom Workshop, to honor the memory of the Ostroms.
Ostrom Memorial Lecture
Fall 2017
Professor Margaret Levi
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
5:30–6:30 p.m. (Reception immediately following)
IU Bloomington, Global and International Studies Building Auditorium (GA 0001)
The fourth annual Ostrom Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Margaret Levi, the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.
Spring 2017
The third annual Ostrom Memorial Lecture was presented by Professor Kenneth Shepsle, George Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University, on April 12, 2017. (See related story in IU News, April 7.) Held at the Indiana Memorial Union, Professor Shepsle's lecture focused on "Rule Breaking and Political Imagination."
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2016
The second annual Ostrom Memorial Lecture was presented by Professor Gary D. Libecap, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, on February 10, 2016. (See related stories in Policy Briefings IU, InsideIUBloomington, and the Herald-Times.) Held at the IU Maurer School of Law, Professor Libecap's lecture focused on "Environmental Externalities and Coasean Exchange."
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2015
The inaugural Ostrom Memorial Lecture was presented by Professor Barry Weingast, Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and senior fellow, Hoover Institution, on February 11, 2015. (See related story in InsideIU Bloomington.) Held at the IU Maurer School of Law, Professor Weingast’s lecture focused on “The Violence Trap: Why Democracy and Rule of Law Fail in the Developing World.”
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