Fall 2026 and Spring and Fall 2025 Speaking Schedule


Spring 2026 Events

During Spring-Summer 2026, I am fortunate to be participating in the ST & HV Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). I will also be a Scholar in Residence at Writers and Artists, at the Bogliasco Foundation in May 2026.

For future speaking engagements, Cathy Davidson is represented by Leigh Bureau. 

  • Feb 20, 5:30. Segal Theater, Graduate Center, CUNY. Introductory Remarks, “Celebrating the Campus Crisis Toolkit” by Kevin Gannon and Lisa Lisa Di Bartolomeo.
  • March 5, 12-4pm. Keynote address, “Turn the Volume Up,” CUNY Women’s Conference: New York City College of Technology, Tillary Lobby, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://www.cuny.edu/about/university-resources/cuny-womens-conference-week/#march5

 

  • May-June, Bogliasco Center

 

Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria, Italy
Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria, Italy
 
 
 
Spring and Fall 2025 

 

February 6-9 2025 – CUNY/SUNY Conference of Public Higher Education in Albany, NY Keynote discussion of “Public Good U” with Davarian L. Baldwin and Sara Goldrick-Rab.

March 24-26 2025 – UPCEA (formerly the University Professional and Continuing Education Association) in Denver, CO. Keynote talk, entitled “Inciting Constructive Change: A User’s Manual”

April 9 2025 – The Opening of the American Mind: Higher Education in the Future, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Panel discussion featuring: Nicholas Dirks, President and CEO of New York Academy of Sciences; Jonathan Holloway, President of Rutgers University; Barbara Snyder, President Emeritus of Case Western Reserve University; President of the American Association of Universities. Moderated by John L. Jackson, Jr., Provost and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Registration link: https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_blbv4803Y2na8ZM

May 8 2025, 11am – 12pm – The Future of Higher Education, at the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY 11-12 am Webinar, Alondra Nelson and Cathy N. Davidson, “AI and the Future of Higher Ed” YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGryCOsa2Y Event recap by HASTAC Scholars Co-Director Tatiana Bertolucci https://hastac.hcommons.org/

May 8, 2025, 630 pm – “The Future of Higher Education,” featuring Cathy N. Davidson, Nancy Cantor, William P. Kelly, Shelly Lowe, and Maurice Wallace. Held in Proshansky Auditorium, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue. YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J76sb9WOrWo&t=9s

June 10, 2025, 630 pm–Commencement, Graduate Center CUNY Lincoln Center YouTube (Cathy Davidson’s Commencement Address begins at 46:55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjG_v6tYPk

July 9, 2025: Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Address and presentation Board of Trustees and Senior Administrator Retreat

September 18-19, 2025 University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. Presidential Annual Address in Conversation with University of the Pacific Provost Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert and conversations with faculty, students, and administrators.

October 29 CalState Fullerton  AMST101: The Culture of College. Prof Carolyn Thomas

FALL 2025 Residency: Visiting Scholar, Social Science Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, One Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey

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Please note: Anyone interested in engaging Cathy Davidson for future speaking or consulting, should please reach out to  Leigh Bureau.