College of Arts and Sciences Announces Fall 2025 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series

The College of Arts and Sciences is proud to present the Fall 2025 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series, which kicks off on Monday, October 20 with "From Seaweed to Sovereignty: Shinnecock Kelp Farmers and Indigenous-Led Climate Solutions," featuring members of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers Collective.

The series continues with two events on Friday, November 14: "Necessity is the Mother of invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry they Inspire," featuring Dr. Sarah E. Reisman, California Institute of Technology, presented by the Department of Chemistry; and "Asian multilingualism, the English language, and the scholarly contributions of Professors S.N. Sridhar and Kamal K. Sridhar," featuring Professor Kingsley Bolton, University of Stockholm and Ateneo de Manila University.

The Fall 2025 series includes:

Monday, October 20, 2025 | 12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Recital Hall, Staller Center for the Arts
From Seaweed to Sovereignty: Shinnecock Kelp Farmers and Indigenous-Led Climate Solutions
Featuring members of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers Collective: Danielle Hopson Begun, Donna Collins-Smith and Rebecca Genia.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences' Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Humanities Institute and Department of Art; Collaborative for the Earth, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery.

Friday, November 14, 2025 | 10:30 am
Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2
Asian multilingualism, the English language, and the scholarly contributions of Professors S.N. Sridhar and Kamal K. Sridhar
Featuring Professor Kingsley Bolton, University of Stockholm and Ateneo de Manila University.
Presented by the College of Arts and Sciences' Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication and Mattoo Center for India Studies. Co-organized by the Departments of Asian and Asian American Studies and Linguistics. This lecture is part of the 2025 MIC Symposium on Multilingualism: Honoring Professors S.N. Sridhar and Kamal Sridhar.

Friday, November 14, 2025 | 4:00 pm
Javits Center Room 101
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry they Inspire
Featuring Sarah E. Reisman, Bren Professor of Chemistry and Norman Davidson Leadership Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology.
Presented by the Department of Chemistry.

Sir Run Run Shaw was an entertainment mogul and philanthropist who, in the 1960s and 1970s, presided over East Asia's largest movie studio and produced hundreds of popular movies. In 1985, the Shaw Foundation Hong Kong Limited made a gift of HK$1 million to the College of Arts and Sciences through the stewardship of CN Yang, Einstein Professor of Physics, and President Marburger. This gift was used to establish the Sir Run Run Shaw Endowment, one of the earliest endowments established by the Stony Brook Foundation. The endowment proceeds support lectures in the College of Arts and Sciences.