Groundbreaking lectures on Workshop programs
Program lectures attract talented researchers, lecturers, and scholars from around the world and a wide array of topics. Lectures are held throughout the academic year and are free and open to the public.
Upcoming program lectures
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Past Lectures
 | July 10, 2024 The Dr. Joseph Lee (University of Manchester), Dr. Scott Shackelford (Indiana University) and Dr. Angie Raymond (Indiana University), "AI Governance and Digital Security." |
The Ostrom Lecture on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance will be given annually. This lecture is a component of the Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, created in January 2017, which brings together scholars, managers, and policymakers from across Indiana and beyond to build scholarly networks, research sustainable models of Internet governance, and promote cyber peace.
 | January 30, 2020 Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. Cohosted with IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. |
June 18, 2024 Maria Carolina Maziviero, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil presented “Impacts of the environmental crisis on territories of poverty in the global south: coping strategies, resilience and the construction of urban commons.” |  |
The Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy will be given annually. This lecture is a component of the Program on Environment & Natural Resource Governance—created in 2016 to develop a network of scholars to examine the institutions that govern natural resources.
October 18, 2022 The fifth annual Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy was presented by Dr. Aseem Prakash, of the University of Washington. His lecture was titled "Clubs, Collective Action, and Voluntary Environmental Programs." |  |
April 14, 2021 The fourth annual Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy was presented by Peter Kareiva, CEO and President, Aquarium of Pacific and Research Professor, UCLA. His lecture was titled “The Power and Peril of Narratives in Determining Environmental Policy.” |  |
April 17, 2019 The third annual Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy was presented by Barry Rabe, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Rabe’s lecture was titled “The Politics of Carbon Pricing” (see related story in News at IU, April 12, 2019). |  |
March 28, 2018 The second annual Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy was presented by Barton (Buzz) Thompson, Stanford Law School, Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment. Thompson’s lecture was titled “Civil Wars: The Challenges of Interstate Waterways.” |  |
February 22, 2017 The inaugural Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy was presented by Terry Anderson of the Hoover Institution. Anderson’s lecture was titled “Who Owns the Environment? Lessons from the Legacy of Elinor Ostrom.” (See related story in IU Bloomington Newsroom.) |  |
The Political Economy Program Lecture is given annually by a distinguished scholar. This lecture is a component of the Political Economy Program.
February 26, 2021 The inaugural lecture featured David K. Levine, an economic theorist who works primarily on economic dynamics both in game theory and general equilibrium theory. The title of his lecture was “Social Mechanism: An Elinor Ostrom Approach to Political Economy.” |  |