Below are past events from the SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Live! Speaker Series. Some listings include a recording of the event.
SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and the Theater and Performance Studies department presented Taylor Mac & Matt Ray in concert on Oct. 24, 2025, followed by a second electric evening with Taylor Mac in conversation with Alexandra Grant on Oct. 25, 2025.
Writer, professor, editor, and social commentator Roxane Gay appeared on Sept. 30, 2025 in conversation with visual artist and cultural collaborator Alexandra Grant.
Boundary-breaking multi-hyphenate Miranda July appeared on April 29, 2025 in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne appeared on Feb. 18, 2025 in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Renowned visual artist Ed Ruscha appeared on Feb. 4, 2025 in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Acclaimed artist Tavares Strachan appeared on Sept. 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician and vocalist Laurie Anderson appears on April 10, 2024 at 7 p.m. in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Internationally acclaimed artist Julie Mehretu appears Feb. 21, 2024 at 7 p.m. to discuss the sociopolitical inspiration behind her work with cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Writer, historian, and environmental and political activist Rebecca Solnit joins us Nov. 28, 2023 at 6:30 p.m., in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Sociologist Ruha Benjamin appears in New York City on Nov. 20, 2023 in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.