The Butler A. Jones
Lectureship on Race and Society |
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| In recognition of Butler A. Jones' tenure at Ohio Wesleyan University,
his contributions to the field of sociology and race relations, his involvement in the
civil rights movement, and his commitment to the development of other scholars and
professionals, the Department of Sociology/Anthropology established the Butler A. Jones
Lectureship on Race and Society in September 1995 and unveiled a Butler A. Jones bust in
Elliott Hall in April 1999. Click here for Butler A. Jones' Biography |
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"The American Role
in the Fall of Haitian Democracy"
Randall Robinson
Wednesday,
January 23, 2008
7:30 p.m. Lecture
Hamilton Williams Campus Center
Benes Rooms
40 Rowland Avenue
Delaware, Ohio
Event co-sponsored by Academic Affairs
Office, Chaplain's Office, International Studies Program, Office of Minority Student
Affairs, Department of Politics and Government, Mark and Virginia
Shipps, Student Union on Black Awareness, and the Wesleyan Council on
Student Affairs.
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Guest Speaker
Randall Robinson |
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Lectures
Given Since 1995 |
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| "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 and past president of TransAfrica. January, 2008. The
link to his website is
http://www.randallrobinson.com/ |
| "Violence
and the Inner City Poor" |
| Elijah Anderson, The Charles
and William Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of
Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. April, 2007 |
| "Hip-Hop: Music or
Movement?" |
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Kenyon Rashan Farrow (OWU '97) graduated from Ohio Wesleyan with
a major in Theatre. He is currently living in Brooklyn, New York,
working as a writer and lecturer. His first book entitled
Letters From
Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out was published by
Nation Books in November 2005. February, 2006. |
| "Latino
Immigrants: The New Civil Rights Movement in the
United States” |
| Baldemar Velasquez is President of the Farm Labor
Organizing Committee. April, 2005. (Visit http://www.floc.com
for additional information.) |
| "The
Enduring Paradox: The American Dream and the American Dilemma" |
| Dr. Charles Bennett, pastor of the Dayspring
Community Church in Lanham, Maryland and an adjunct professor at the
Interdenominational Theological School in Atlanta. January, 2005.
For additional information about the speaker, click
here. |
| "The Relevance of Nonviolent Action" |
| Mary E. King (OWU Class of
1962), internationally acclaimed civil rights activist and
award-winning author. January, 2004. Click
here for Mary King
biography |
| "Donkeys of the University:
Women and the Transformation of South African Higher Education" |
| Reitumetse Mabokela, (OWU Class of 1992), Professor,
Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University. April, 2003.
Click here for Mabokela biography. |
| "Afghanistan: A Multiethnic
Country With a Tortured Past and Uncertain Future" |
| Alam M. Payind, Director of OSU Middle East Studies
Center, Professor of Kabul University, Afghanistan, Adjunct Professor at Ohio State
University. April, 2002 |
| "Politics of Race and Violence in
the United States" |
| James Upton, Professor of African-American and African
Studies, The Ohio State University. February, 2002. |
| "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. March, 2001. See pictures here. |
| "Race, Nations, and the Global
African Diaspora" |
| Ruth Simms Hamilton, Professor of Sociology and Urban
Affairs, Michigan State University, author of Racial Conflict, Discrimination and
Power and Urbanization in West Africa. April, 2000. |
| "The Promise of Brown: Educational
Equity After 45 Years" |
| Edgar J. Epps, Professor of Education Emeritus at the
University of Chicago. April, 1999. |
| "Race as a System of Power" |
| Patricia Hill Collins, Professor of Sociology and African
American Studies at University of Cincinnati and author of Black Feminist Thought
and Race, Class, and Gender. 1998 |
| "The New Social Inequality and Race
Based Public Policy" |
| William Julius Wilson, Professor of Social Policy in the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and past president of the
American Sociological Association, presented second. February, 1997. |
| Andrew Billingsley, eminent sociologist and author of
the acclaimed book, Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African American
Families, delivered the inaugural lecture. September, 1995 |
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