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David Hogg, who survived the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting, stands during a news conference to announce the introduction of bipartisan legislation to expand background checks for sales and transfers of firearms, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington.

The Lawrence lecture of Parkland shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg has been pushed back a week.

The student who survived the Feb. 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., will now speak at the Lied Center Nov. 15.

Don Haider-Markel, chairman of the political science department at the University of Kansas and organizer of the event, said the event had to be rescheduled because Hogg has an exam on the date he was originally supposed to speak, Nov. 8.

“Basically, this is his first semester in college and apparently he has a test that’s scheduled for late Friday,” Haider-Markel said. Hogg attends Harvard University, and Haider-Markel said Harvard had a policy forbidding rescheduling of individual exams.

The lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Haider-Markel said the 7:30 start time was due to a KU basketball game beginning at 7 p.m. and KU’s desire to minimize traffic congestion.

Hogg’s lecture is titled “Putting the USA over the NRA: What we must do to end gun violence.”

The event is part of the KU’s Political Science Clifford P. Ketzel Speaker Series. After the lecture, Hogg will be hosting a book signing for his 2018 work, “#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line,” which he co-authored with his sister, Lauren.