Helen Fisher Distinguished Lecture

Kinsey Institute

Renowned anthropologist and former Kinsey Institute Senior Research Fellow Dr. Helen Fisher spent her career showing that love is hard-wired in the brain. Yet her discoveries didn’t explain love away or erode its magic; they revealed new layers that only deepened her curiosity and awe. This endowed fund, established in Dr. Fisher's honor, continues her mission to bring the science of love into everyday life.

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Kinsey Institute

Renowned anthropologist and former Kinsey Institute Senior Research Fellow Dr. Helen Fisher spent her career showing that love is hard-wired in the brain. Yet her discoveries didn’t explain love away or erode its magic; they revealed new layers that only deepened her curiosity and awe. This endowed fund, established in Dr. Fisher's honor, continues her mission to bring the science of love into everyday life.

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Income from gifts to this fund will support a recurring public lecture series, presented by the Kinsey Institute, engaging leading thinkers from across relationship science to share clear, evidence-based insights about sex, love, and human connection with the public.

Your support will bring world-class experts to new audiences and spark conversations about what it means to love and be loved. Held no less than every two years, these lectures will invite the public to keep exploring what decades of research can teach us about the anatomy of love and how our relationships continue to evolve.

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Around the world, people love. They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love. They tell myths and legends about love. They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die for love.

Dr. Helen Fisher, from her 2008 TED talk

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Please note, the name and purpose of the fund displayed on this page constitute the authorized description of the fund by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. Your gift supports the fund as described herein.

This account is an endowment. Your gifts to this fund will be invested in perpetuity to provide annual income to support the purpose of the account. Per Indiana University Foundation, Inc. policy, endowment accounts which do not ultimately become fully funded at the required minimum through pledges/gifts will be converted to an expendable account supporting the same purpose as the original endowed fund.