November 9 | 7:00 pm | '62 Center
The Annual W. Allison Davis ’24 and John A. Davis ’33 Lecture, delivered by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, Professor and Department Chair for Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Continue reading »
May 9 Tuesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
As Laurie Bertram Roberts has argued, reproductive justice—"the right to parent, the right not to parent, and the right to parent in healthy and secure communities"— is an absolute human right. Yet this human right has never been distributed equally. What does the struggle for abortion access look like, both before and after Dobbs, when we center the Deep South and examine the deepening challenges to access revealed at the intersections of poverty, disability, gender, race, and sexual orientation? For this year's Weiss Lecture, Williams' Dr. Leticia Smith-Evans Haynes '99 will converse with activist Laurie Bertram Roberts, executive director of the Yellowhammer fund, a reproductive justice organization serving Alabama, Mississippi, and the Deep South.
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October 18 Thursday, 7:00pm | Online
The W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture commemorates the remarkable work of the two distinguished scholars for which the Center is named. The Davis Brothers who, throughout their adult lives, made important contributions to equal rights and opportunities in the United States. Allison Davis, the valedictorian of the Class of 1924, was a pioneer in the social anthropological study of class and caste in the American South. John A. Davis pursued wide-ranging political science work on race in both the United States and Africa. The Davis Lecture is delivered each year by a scholar whose work concentrates on some aspects of race, class, or education in the United States.
Dorothy E. Roberts is an American sociologist, law professor, and social justice advocate. She is Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor, and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. Her path breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics.She is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law. Continue reading »
