Housemembers use Telluride funds and facilities to host seminars, lectures, readings and other academic events. Life at the House Academics Self-Governance Service Project Faculty Fellows How to Apply Miller Exchange Home ACADEMICS      Whether through planned events or informal discussions over meals, life at Telluride House challenges members to explore ideas together and to think seriously about the pressing political, scientific, philosophical and aesthetic questions. The Public Speaking Program      All members of Telluride House participate in a public speaking program that allows them to share their interests with other members as well as to improve their speaking skills. New Ideas Forums      Housemembers often invite faculty to the House for formal lectures and seminars.  Others organize reading groups, visit museums, attend films, plays, and poetry readings.  Whatever the format, these forums are an important staple of the House's intellectual life. The Telluride Lecture Series      The Telluride Lecture Series brings prominent alumni of Telluride Association programs to speak to the University of Michigan community.  All events are free and open to the public.  Previous Telluride Lectures have been delivered by Kathleen Frankovic, director of polling at CBS News, noted scholar Francis Fukuyama, Harold Levy, former New York City Schools Chancellor, Kenneth Pomeranz, Chair of History at the University of California at Irvine, and Kathleen Sullivan, Dean of the Stanford Law School.