{"id":63530,"date":"2025-12-17T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63530\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:33:05","slug":"pete-buttigieg-to-deliver-2026-kenner-lecture-on-cultural-understanding-the-brown-and-white-pete-buttigieg-to-deliver-2026-kenner-lecture-on-cultural-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63530\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg to deliver 2026 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding &#8211; The Brown and White Pete Buttigieg to deliver 2026 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation <a href=\"https:\/\/cas.lehigh.edu\/articles\/pete-buttigieg-deliver-2026-kenner-lecture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> will deliver Lehigh\u2019s 2026 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is an <a href=\"https:\/\/cas.lehigh.edu\/alumni\/endowed-lectures\/kenner-lecture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual event<\/a> hosted by Lehigh\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences that brings prominent leaders, authors and journalists to campus to engage the community in discussions on pressing social and cultural issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 2021 to 2025 and previously served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Robert Flowers said Buttigieg was selected to speak because of his approach to political dialogue and leadership during a time of heightened polarization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when our political discourse often seems more divisive than ever, Pete Buttigieg brings a unique combination of thoughtful leadership and practical governing experience,\u201d Flowers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg\u2019s lecture, titled \u201cCivility in Public Discourse: Navigating Polarization and Uncertainty,\u201d will take place on March 3, 2026, at 8 p.m. in Baker Hall at Zoellner Arts Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will deliver Lehigh\u2019s 2026 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding.\u00a0 The Kenner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,334,139,295,33981],"class_list":{"0":"post-63530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-brief","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-two-minute-read"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}