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.
Past Lectures
First Woman of Color in Congress: Patsy Takemoto Mink’s Feminist Politics
October 23, 2019
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
“She knew long before of the space in between”
October 18, 2018
Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons
The Curious Cases of Gay Racism
March 13, 2017
Chong-suk Han
The Letters Behind My Name
October 28, 2015
College and Community Fellowship's Theater for Social Change
Sexual Violence on College Campuses: Confronting the Reality
October 21, 2015
David Lisak