Events & Speeches
Welcome, Pope Francis
When 300 Jesuits-in-training came to the LMU campus this summer for a week of workshops, the largest such meeting in nine years, we seized the opportunity to ask if they’d like to welcome Pope…
Doris Kearns Goodwin Addresses the Class of 2013
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the connection she sees between storytelling and the work of a historian. Watch her undergraduate commencement address as she traces her historian’s path from recapping Brooklyn Dodgers baseball games…
Ken Burns Tells Grads Why They and History Matter
Lincoln’s Lessons: Ken Burns is a documentary filmmaker who is immersed in history. At the 2012 undergraduate commencement, he told LMU’s graduating class that in times of crisis, the United States repeatedly returns to…
Nobel Laureate Speaks at Graduate Commencement
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian poet, novelist, playwright and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He gave the commencement address at the 2014 Graduate Commencement Exercises, drawing on lessons of history, colonialism,…
Doris Kearns Goodwin Addresses LMU Commencement
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the connection she sees between storytelling and the work of a historian.
Ken Burns Shares Lincoln’s Vision in 2012 Commencement Address
Lincoln’s Lessons: Ken Burns is a documentary filmmaker who is immersed in history. At the 2012 undergraduate commencement, he told LMU’s graduating class that in times of crisis, the United States repeatedly returns to…