Februrary 2024 |
"Beyond Diversity & Inclusion: Rethinking the Community Engagement Mission of Higher Education" |
Davarian L. Baldwin, Ph.D., Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies; Founding Director, Smart Cities Research Lab, Trinity College View recording |
September 2022 |
"The Hook-Up: How Race and Class are Soulmates for Life" |
Nina Turner, groundbreaking Ohio politician and former co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. |
October 2020 |
"Race and the Right to Vote in Ohio: A New Look at the Old Struggle for Inclusion" |
Ric S. Sheffield, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies Kenyon College |
March 2019 |
"The Central Park Five: Film Screening and Discussion" |
Sarah Burns, Author and Filmmaker |
February 2018 |
"Building a Reflective Democracy: The Intersection Between Social Justice and Electoral Politics" |
Jessica Byrd, Social Activist and Political Organizer |
March 2017 |
"We Are All Emigrants" |
Ilhan Omar, First Somali-American, Muslim woman in the U.S. elected to a State Legislature |
February 2016 |
"From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter: Gender, Sexuality and Black Social Movements" |
Patricia Hill Collins, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland |
April 2015 |
"High Price: Promoting Social Justice Through a Neuropsychopharmacology Lens" |
Carl Hart, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Columbia University |
September 2013 |
"Climate and Environmental Justice" |
Michael Dorsey Visiting Fellow, Professor of Environmental Studies College of the Environment, Wesleyan University |
November 2012 |
"We Still Live Here" |
Anne Makepeace Film Writer/Director/Producer |
March 2012 |
"Race and Neighborhood Crime in Urban Areas" |
Ruth Peterson Professor Emeritus Department of Sociology, Ohio Wesleyan University Retiree Faculty Criminal Justice Research Center, The Ohio State University |
March 2011 |
"With Justice for All" |
Morris Dees Founder, Chief Trial Attorney Southern Poverty Law Center |
April 2010 |
"Anatomy of Hate" |
Mike Ransdell Director |
October 2008 |
"Reflections on the Role of Race in the 2008 Presidential Election" |
Korie Edwards Assistant Professor of Sociology The Ohio State University |
January 2008 |
"The American Role in the Fall of Haitian Democracy" |
Randall Robinson Author 'An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President' Founder, Past President TransAfrica |
April 2007 |
"Violence and the Inner City Poor" |
Elijah Anderson The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania |
February 2006 |
"Hip-Hop: Music or Movement?" |
Kenyon Rashan Farrow '97 Writer, Lecturer |
April 2005 |
"Latino Immigrants: The New Civil Rights Movement in the United States" |
Baldemar Velasquez President Farm Labor Organizing Committee |
January 2005 |
"The Enduring Paradox: The American Dream and the American Dilemma" |
Dr. Charles Bennett Pastor Dayspring Community Church Adjunct Professor Interdenominatinoal Theological School |
January 2004 |
"The Relevance of Nonviolent Action" |
Mary King '62 Civil Rights Activist, Author |
April 2003 |
"Donkeys of the University: Women and the Transformation of South African Higher Education" |
Reitumetse Mabokela '92 Professor Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University |
April 2002 |
"Afghanistan: A Multiethnic Country With a Tortured Past and Uncertain Future" |
Alam Paynid Director of OSU Middle East Studies Center, Adjunct Professor The Ohio State University Professor Kabul University |
February 2002 |
"Politics of Race and Violence in the United States" |
James Upton Professor of African-American and African Studies The Ohio State University |
March 2001 |
"From Civil Rights to Florida – Ending the Second Reconstruction: An Examination of 'Race' at the Turn of the Centuries" |
Robert Newby Professor of Sociology Central Michigan University |
April 2000 |
"Race, Nations, and the Global African Diaspora" |
Ruth Simms Hamilton Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs Michigan State University Author 'Racial Conflict, Discrimination, and Power and Urbanization in West Africa' |
April 1999 |
"The Promise of Brown: Educational Equity After 45 Years" |
Edgar Epps Professor of Education Emeritus University of Chicago |
March 1998 |
"Race as a System of Power" |
Patricia Hill Collins Professor of Sociology and African American Studies University of Cincinnati Author 'Black Feminist Thought' and 'Race, Class, and Gender' |
February 1997 |
"The New Social Inequality and Race Based Public Policy" |
William Julius Wilson Professor of Social Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Past President American Sociological Association |
September 1995 |
No title available (inaugural Butler Jones Lecture) |
Andrew Billingsley Sociologist, Author 'Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African American Families' |