Conklin Lecture Series
Pictured from left are Dr. Peter Grant Jordan, Dr. Werner Steger, Dr. Jill Lepore
and Dr. D. David Conklin, former DCC president.
Dr. D. David Conklin Distinguished Lecture Series
This lecture series was established to recognize DCC’s fourth president, who retired
in 2014. The event is free and open to the public and is made possible by individual
contributions to the Dutchess Community College Foundation and Key Sponsors TD Bank
and Llelanie Orcutt.
Speaker: Award-winning author and historian Dr. Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law
at Harvard University
'Making Amends: Rewriting the U.S. Constitution'
September 22, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Richard Aldous, the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature at Bard College
'British-American Relations, Past, Present and Brexit Future'
October 24, 2019
Speaker: Award-winning author and historian Russell Shorto
'The Dutch In Us: The Remarkable Influence of the Netherlands on New York and Beyond'
October 16, 2018
Speaker: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dr. David Kennedy, Stanford University professor emeritus
'Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Twentieth-Century Life'
October 19, 2017
For more information or to be added to the mailing list call (845) 431-8400 or email dccf@sunydutchess.edu.
Dr. Jill Lepore
Photo by Stephanie Miller, Harvard
Dr. Richard Aldous
Russell Shorto
Dr. David Kennedy