Artist and Rice Univeristy alum Michael Petry will deliver a three-night lecture series at the Rice Media Center. The talks will cover different themes and topics related to his 30 years in art production. Petry, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, London, will also be opening an installation on April 11 at Hiram Butler Gallery.

Each year, the Campbell Lecture Series brings a distinguished humanities scholar to campus to gives lectures on a topic of broad humanistic interest. These are open to the entire Rice and Houston communities. Through a special arrangement with the University of Chicago Press, the lectures are later published as a book. Previous Campbell lecturers include Robert Pinsky (2005), Ha Jin (2006), Alix Ohlin (2007), Stephen Greenblatt (2008), James Cuno (2009), Zadie Smith (2010), Stanley Fish (2012), Patrick Summers (2013) and Robert Wilson (2014).