Equality
David Wilson (2010-2011)
Feb 15, 2011
鈥淚nventing Black-on-Black Violence: American Style鈥 David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a member of the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, [...]
Lori Beaman (2009-2010)
Jan 30, 2010
Lori Beaman is professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Beaman鈥檚 research had helped to develop the concept of deep equality and an emerging [...]
Richard Lewontin (1992-1993)
Feb 09, 1993
鈥淕enetic Determinism and the Problem of Human Equality鈥 Richard Lewontin is Emeritus Professor of Biology and Emeritus Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. [...]
Angela Davis (1988-1989)
Feb 09, 1989
鈥淩ace, Class, and Gender in the Reagan-Bush Era鈥 Angela Davis was a prolific American professor and Black activist. During this time, she co-founded Sisters Inside and Critical Resistance. She first gained prominence as a Black nationalist activist during the 1960s, when she beca
Stephen Jay Gould (1987-1988)
Nov 18, 1987
鈥淗uman Equality is a Contingent Fact of History鈥 Stephen J. Gould was an evolutionary scientist, a professor at Harvard, and a leading opponent of scientific creationism. He was also a prominent author. His award-winning book, The Mismeasure of Man, examined the racist [...]
Ronald Dworkin (1981-1982)
Feb 11, 1982
鈥淭he Paradoxes of Equality鈥 Ronald Dworkin was a widely-respected philosopher of law. At the time of his talk, Dworkin was the professor of jurisprudence at Oxford. In his research and teaching, he examined how the law should deal with race, abortion, euthanasia and [...]
Michael Harrington (1981-1982)
Feb 09, 1982
鈥淭he Necessity of Solidarity鈥 Michael Harrington was a prolific socialist writer and at the time of his talk was a political scientist at 皇冠体育鈥檚 College (NYC). He was also a founding member of Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington served as the first editor of New [...]
C. Eric Lincoln (1968-1969)
Jan 24, 1969
鈥淭he New Blacks in Search of a Self鈥 C. Eric Lincoln was a professor of sociology and religion at the Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He authored the influential Black Muslims in America and was one of the first scholars to study African-American Islam. He taught at a [...]