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The Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in Psychology
2026 Benjamin Lecture
Kelly Lambert, PhD
Save the Date: May 14, 2026
The Cummings Center for the History of Psychology is pleased to announce that Kelly Lambert, PhD will be our Featured Speaker for the 2026 Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in Psychology. Lambert is an acclaimed behavioral neuroscientist interested in experience-based neuroplasticity.
The 2026 Benjamin Lecture will be held on Thursday, May 14. More information, including registration details, will be available soon.
About the Benjamin Lecture
This lecture series honors Dr. Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., an outstanding teacher, scholar, and researcher, whose work has contributed significantly to our understanding of psychology and its history.
The annual Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in the History of Psychology is hosted by the Cummings Center each year in May.
Past lectures are listed below. Click the links to access recordings of these lectures via the Cummings Center YouTube channel:
2025: Dr. Daniel T. Willingham, Improving the Use of Psychological Science in K-12 Education
2024: Dr. Joseph E. Trimble, Tales from the Field: Principled Perspectives for Research with Indigenous Communities | (Download Lecture Handout)
2023: Dr. Rosie Phillips Davis, From Cradle to Chapter Three: The Impact of Poverty on My Life
2022: Dr. David B. Baker, Saving Time: The History of Psychology and the Human Experience
2021: Postponed due to COVID-19
2020: Postponed due to COVID-19
2019: Dr. Laura Stark, The Other Akron: Searching for the “Normal” Mind in Postwar America
2018: Dr. David G. Myers, Teaching Psychological Science in a Post-Truth Age
2017: Dr. Keith Humphreys, Alcoholics Anonymous and Psychology: A Long and Winding Road
2015: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, A Life in Memory
2014: Dr. Andrew Winston, The Explication of Evil: Psychologists and the Holocaust, 1945-1955