BIDDEFORD — The University of New England will present its annual Bernard and Sandra Featherman Distinguished Humanities Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

This year’s speaker, UNE’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Jeanne Hey, will present “The 2016 Presidential Election and the Future of American Foreign Policy.” The lecture will be held on the Biddeford campus from 2-4 p.m. in the Harold Alfond Center for Health Sciences, room 106. The event is free and open to the public.

The lecture will analyze the foreign policy platforms and records of the leading presidential candidates and discuss what kind of foreign policy future each one would create.

Before coming to UNE, Hey served as the director of International Studies and professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A graduate of Bucknell University, she earned a Ph.D. in political science from The Ohio State University. She has conducted research and taught university courses in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe. She has published four books and numerous articles on foreign policy, developing regions and pedagogy in international studies.

The Featherman Distinguished Humanities Lecture was established in 1998 by University of New England President Sandra Featherman and her husband Bernard Featherman. Committed to promoting humanistic values and to enriching the learning experience at UNE, the Feathermans have created a permanent forum for exciting dialogues on diverse and provocative topics by thoughtful and renowned speakers.