Roosevelt Lectures
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lecture Series
The Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture Series was created in 2004 to honor Eleanor Roosevelt’s commitment to social justice and her important place in women’s history.
First Lady and U.N. Ambassador Eleanor Roosevelt served on Brandeis University’s Board of Trustees from 1949 until her death in 1962 and was Visiting Lecturer of International Relations from 1959 to 1962. She gave the University’s first commencement address in 1952, receiving an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters in 1954.
10th Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture
featuring Jennifer Finney Boylan
Author and activist
Thursday, October 15
4:30 pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Past Lectures
Isabel Wilkerson
The Decision of Their Lives
Caste, Gender and the Great Migration
Thursday, November 1
Alison Bechdel
Infinite Gradations of Color: From Fathers to Mothers
October 17, 2011
Sara Davis Buechner
Crossing the Concourse: A Musical Life in Two Keys
Piano Performance: September 27, 2010
Lecture: September 28, 2010
Maria Hinojosa
Mexicana Feminist Journalist Activista:
The political responsibility of owning one's voice
September 17, 2009
Anne Fausto-Sterling
"Nature, Nurture, Neither:
Reconceptualizing Sex and Gender"
October 15, 2008
Article in The Justice
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun
“Colored Water and the Power of One”
October 10, 2007
Jamaica Kincaid
A Reading
October 5, 2006
Mary Catherine Bateson
“Bridges across Time: Changing the Game between the Generations”
September 28, 2005
Patricia J. Williams
“Angel of History: Exploring the Demons that Divide Us in Troubled Times”
November 11, 2004