The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture

11/18/2025

The recording from the 2025 Wallenberg Lecture honoring Vladimir Kara-Murza is now available.

View the Wallenberg Lecture recording on YouTube:

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner, received the 2025 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan...

11/04/2025

TODAY! Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner, will receive the 2025 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan on November 4th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium. Event details: wallenberg.umich.edu

10/28/2025

ONE WEEK AWAY!

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner, will receive the 2025 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan on November 4th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium.

Event details: wallenberg.umich.edu

10/20/2025

2025 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
November 4th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium

"Free People in an Unfree Country": Standing Up to Kremlin Tyranny, Past and Present
Vladimir Kara-Murza

Event details: https://myumi.ch/A1Wdy
Add to calendar: https://events.umich.edu/event/133144

09/30/2025

2025 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
"Free People in an Unfree Country": Standing Up to Kremlin Tyranny, Past and Present

Vladimir Kara-Murza
November 4th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium

Event details: https://myumi.ch/A1Wdy
Add to calendar: https://events.umich.edu/event/133144

04/08/2025

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian politician, author, historian, and former political prisoner, will receive the 2025 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan on November 4th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium.

Event details: wallenberg.umich.edu

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03/19/2025

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01/27/2025

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Find out how to observe this important day.

01/20/2025

The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture continues to recognize outstanding humanitarians whose work perpetuates U-M alumnus Raoul Wallenberg’s extraordinary accomplishments and human values.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the disappearance of 🇸🇪 diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the . Wallenberg is a role model for everyone who believes in freedom, equality, and solidarity.

In 1981, he became an honorary citizen of the United States. Today, there are numerous monuments, statues, buildings and other works of art dedicated to Wallenberg across the 🇺🇸. In Washington, DC, for example, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is located on Raoul Wallenberg Place.

Let us honor his memory by continuing to stand up against antisemitism and racism - because .

10/01/2024

We are pleased to share the 2024 Wallenberg Lecture recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lZLAC-dsE.

Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation and a global environmental activist, received the 2024 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan.

Read about the Wallenberg Lecture in the University Record (https://record.umich.edu/articles/activist-bassey-stresses-shared-humanity-in-wallenberg-lecture/) and on our website (https://wallenberg.umich.edu/news-and-events/nnimmo-bassey-receives-2024-wallenberg-medal/).

Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation and a global environmental activist, received the 2024 Wallenberg Medal from the U...

09/12/2024

Photos from the 2024 University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal and Lecture honoring architect, poet, and African environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation. Thank you to all who were able to attend. A recording of the lecture will be posted in the coming days to wallenberg.umich.edu.

Photos by Erin Kirkland, Michigan Photography, University of Michigan.