March 22, 2013

Lafayette College Will Live Stream Lecture by Tony Blair

Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to Speak at Lafayette College on April 8

Faculty discussion of Blair’s role in world events April 2

Tickets for a major address by Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, at Lafayette College on Monday, April 8 are no longer available, but the 4 p.m. event will be televised live in Colton Chapel.

No tickets are required for viewing Blair by live video stream in the College’s Colton Chapel and seating is free and open to the public.

In preparation of Blair’s lecture, government and law faculty will hold a panel discussion, “Tony Blair, Britain, and a Changing World,” at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2 in the Interfaith Chapel of Hogg Hall.

The event is free and open to the public. Panelists will include government and law faculty members Katalin Fabian, Michael Feola, and Seo-Hyun Park.

Blair’s speech will be the College’s Lives of Liberty Lecture for 2012-13. Begun in 2007-08, during the College’s yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s birth, the Lives of Liberty Lecture Series features accomplished individuals whose lives embody the ideals of the Marquis in the world today.