Commencement 2023 | Bates College

Watch the 157th Bates Commencement as we celebrate the Class of 2023 and welcome Commencement speaker J. Drew Lanham and fellow honorary degree recipients Michael Lewis, Julieanna Richardson, and Shankar Vedantam.

00:00 — Processional
19:13 — Welcome | President A. Clayton Spencer
31:54 — Senior Address | Rishi Sanjay Madnani
40:43 — Presentation of Honorands and Conferral of Honorary Degrees
40:13 — Michael Lewis | Doctor of Letters
45:22 — Julieanna Richardson | Doctor of Humane Letters
49:23 — Shankar Vedantam | Doctor of Letters
53:20 — J. Drew Lanham | Doctor of Science
57:29 — Commencement Address | J. Drew Lanham
1:16:33 — Presentation of the Class of 2023 | Dean Hill
2:03:45 — Conferral of Degrees | President Spencer
2:04:30 — Alumni Association Welcome | Kevin R. Moore ’93, President of the Alumni Association
2:07:17 — Benediction | Brittany A. Longsdorf | Multifaith Chaplain
2:10:30 — Recessional

J. Drew Lanham, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University, MacArthur Fellow, and author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, delivers the Bates College Commencement address on Sunday, May 28.

Lanham, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree, will be joined by three other honorary degree recipients.

Michael Lewis, the award-winning author of such books as The Big Short and Moneyball, whose meticulously crafted narratives help us understand the forces that are shaping our world, will receive a Doctor of Letters degree.

Julieanna Richardson, the founder and executive director of The HistoryMakers, the preeminent archive of African American oral histories, housed in the Library of Congress, will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Shankar Vedantam, the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author renowned for exploring the inner workings of our minds and the ways we make decisions for his Hidden Brain podcast and radio series, will receive a Doctor of Letters degree.

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