Roosevelt Lectures
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.
Upcoming and Past Lectures
March 17, 2021
BLACK PRIVACY: A MINI SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
11:30 AM-1:00 PM ET
A panel event to launch "Black Privacy," the special issue of The Black Scholar, co-edited by Professors Samantha Pinto and Shoniqua Roach.
featuring
Angela Davis '65
Johnnetta Cole
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Simone Brown
Sarah Haley
Emily A. Owens
Samantha Pinto
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Register to Attend Black Privacy: A Mini Symposium
Sponsored by the Department of African and African-American Studies and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
October 23, 2019
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
October 18, 2018
Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons
March 13, 2017
Chong-suk Han
October 28, 2015
College and Community Fellowship's Theater for Social Change
October 21, 2015
David Lisak