Poster
Joy James (2019)
Mar 19, 2019
Joy James is a professor at Williams College. Her research considers the role of mass incarceration in the class and race struggles of the 1970s, and considers incarceration as a form of state violence while also exploring how people of colour resist it through organizing [...]
Christopher Lebron (2018)
Oct 11, 2018
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
Susan Stryker (2015)
Feb 25, 2015
“Transgender Histories and Futurities” Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Her work lies at the intersection of Queer [...]
Elie Wiesel (2006-2007)
Nov 22, 2006
“Against Indifference” Elie Wiesel is a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. His family was captured and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 two weeks before D-Day. There, his mother and sisters were taken [...]
Sister Helen Prejean (2005-2006)
Sep 28, 2005
“Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues” Sister Helen of St. Joseph of Medaille, New Orleans is a Roman Catholic nun. She has been a spiritual advisor to many individuals on death row. She wrote a book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the [...]
Evelyne Accad (2004-2005)
Mar 08, 2005
“Sexuality and War in the Aftermath of September Eleven” Evelyne Accad is professor emerita of Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was born in Beirut in 1943 and [...]
Gwynne Dyer (1999-2000)
Oct 03, 1999
“Democratic Overdog: Strategy, Morality, and Etiquette for the New Masters of the Universe” Gwynne Dyer is a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer, originally trained as a historian. He has served in the armed forces of three nations and has held [...]
Charles Taylor (1997-1998)
Mar 13, 1998
“Globalization, Ethnicity, and the Future of Canada” Charles Taylor is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. From 1976-1978, he held the Chichele Chair at Oxford University before returning to Canada to participate in the Quebec referendum campaign of [...]
John Ralston Saul (1996-1997)
Oct 09, 1996
“Between Corporatism and Democracy: Surviving as a Citizen in Modern Society” John Ralston Saul is an award-winning Canadian essayist, humanist, and author of the best-selling book, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992), which examines Western [...]
Ruth Hubbard (1995-1996)
Oct 12, 1995
“In a Science Restructured on Feminist Lines, Would the Laws of Gravity Still Hold?” Ruth Hubbard was a professor of biology at Harvard University, where she was the first woman to hold a tenured professorship in biology. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she made important [...]
Ursula Franklin (1994-1995)
Feb 15, 1995
“Technology and the Task of Civilization: A Perspective of the 20th Century” Ursula Franklin was a scientist, activist, and public figure known for her peace and climate activism. Franklin received her Ph.D. in experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin in [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
“Historical Experience and Multiculturalism” Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]