| October 2025 |
(10/28/2025)
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Dana Bucin, JD, 2002 OWU Alumnus, Partner at Harris Beach Murtha, and the Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut
Dana Bucin, JD, 2002 OWU Alumnus, Partner at Harris Beach Murtha, and the Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut, Robert Gitter, Ph.D., OWU Emeritus Professor of Business & Economics, & Veda Kim, Ph.D., OWU Professor of Sociology & Anthropology (10/29/2025)
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February
2025 |
"Refusing Death: Immigrant Women of Color on Environmental Racism and Classism" (2/19/25)
Panel Discussion:
"The Intersection of Environmental & Racial Justice" (2/20/25) |
Nadia Y. Kim, Ph.D., professor of Sociology, holds the George Sumey Jr. Professorship in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University
Nadia Y. Kim, Ph.D.,Laurel Anderson, Ph.D., Professor, OWU Biological Sciences, & Ashley Toenjes, Ph.D., Professor, OWU Environmental & Sustainability Sciences
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February
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' |
Butler A. Jones