HOOKS INSTITUTE SPEAKER SERIES

Current Speakers

Details coming soon.

Past Speakers

"Forgetting the Righteous: The Fayette County Movement in History and Memory"
Charles Payne, Ph.D. (Duke University)
Oct 28, 2006

"Repairing the Past: Racial Violence after World War I and the Politics and Reconciliation"
Chris Capozzola, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Oct. 20, 2006

"Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post South Africa"
Gillian Hart, Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley)
April 17, 2006

"Worker Justice in a Global Society: Revisiting Martin Luther King's Unfinished Agenda"
Michael Honey, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
April 3, 2006

"After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism"
Antonia Darder, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)
April 1, 2005

"African Americans and the Social Contract"
Bill E. Lawson, Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
Sept. 16, 2004

"Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence"
Tom Hayden (Occidental College)
Nov. 11, 2004

"Civil Rights in the Era of Social Wrongs"
Patricia Williams, J.D. (Columbia University Law School)
Oct. 12, 2004

"Fifty Years After Brown"
Lee C. Bollinger (President, Columbia University)
Fed. 12, 2004

Past Co-sponsored Speakers

"Neoliberalizing Race in the Age of Globalization"
David Theo Goldberg, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine)
March 27, 2006

"Safe and Sacred Spaces in African American Community-Building: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives"
Townsand Price-Spratlen, Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
April 3, 2006

"Can Slaves Practice Politics?"
Stephen Hahn, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
April 3, 2006

"Morality, Causes and Effects"
Joseph Inikori, Ph.D. (University of Rochester)
Oct. 14, 2005

"Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia Politics of Race and Health"
Keith Wailoo, Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
March 2, 2005

"Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy"
Kevin Bales, Ph.D. (University of Surrey Roehampton)
Nov. 18, 2004

"Silver Rights"
Constance Curry, J.D. (Emory University)
Oct. 5, 2004