Series Speakers

DVDs of some of the past lectures are available for checkout or viewing through the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX and through the K-State Libraries.

2015

Speaker Date

Dr. Mildred Edwards

Westar Energy Manager for Training and Development

September 28, 2015

2013

Speaker Date

Reggie Robinson

Washburn University Professor of Law
Supreme Court Reconsiders Voting Rights Act: Broken Law or Broken Promise?
September 17, 2013

Jeff Jackson

Washburn University Professor of Law
Forming the American Constitution: A Nation Building Game

September 4, 2013

Richard Thompson Ford

George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
Rights Gone Wrong

February 28, 2013

2012

Speaker Date

Professor Steven Ramirez

Professor of Law, Director, Business and Corporate Governance Law Center at Loyola University Chicago
Affirmative Action at the Crossroads: The Uncertain Future of Race-Conscious College Admissions
September 19, 2012

Dr. Bob Zellner

Civil Rights Activist
March 6, 2012

2011

Speaker Date


Dr. Ali Khan

Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law and expert on Islamic Law
American Muslims and the Right to Religious Freedom
March 15, 2011

2010

Speaker Date

"Papers" Documentary on Undocumented Youth and Panel Discussion

September 19, 2010

Who Will Judge You? Advancing Judicial Diversity

September 15, 2010

Cars, Cops, and Traffic Stops: Who's Right?

October 12, 2010

2009

Speaker Date

Guns on Campus? The New Understanding of the Right to Bear Arms

September 16, 2009

Professor Mark Peterson

Chair of the Washburn University Department of Political Science
Arthur Fletcher: What Would the 'Father of Affirmative Action' Think of His Child Today?
April 2, 2009

2008

Speaker Date

Mary Frances Berry

Former Chairperson of the Civil Rights Commission
Panel Discussion on Racial Profiling
September 2008

2007

Speaker Date

Mira Mdivani

Immigration Attorney
Brown is the New Black and Green Cards are Pink: Immigration Law for Normal People
March 12, 2007

Ambassador Edward Perkins

Former Ambassador to the U.N., Liberia
Civil Rights and Citizens' Rights: Our Constitution
February 20, 2007

2006

Speaker Date

Civil Rights and Same-Sex Couples

Pedro Irigonegaray, Joel Oster, Professor Bill Rich
April 6, 2006

2005

Speaker Date

Professor Patricia Williams

Professor at Columbia University Law School
Civil Rights in an Era of Social Wrongs
September 29, 2005

Judge Paul Brady

Federal Administrative Law Judge
The Twoness in America: Black and American
March 16, 2005

2004

Speaker Date

Nadine Strossen

President of the ACLU
October 29, 2004

Michael Ratner

President of the Center for Constitutional Rights
Guantánamo, Enemy Combatants, and Torture: The End of the Rule of Law in America
September 21, 2004

Arthur A. Benson II

Civil Rights Attorney
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education: 50 Years of Doing Right for the Wrong Reason?

Jeannine Bell

Associate Professor of Law
On the Frontlines of the Battle Against Hate Crimes

2003

Speaker Date

Stephen Jones

Attorney-at-Law
Representing a Terrorist in Court

Anthony Romero

Executive Director, ACLU
The State of Our Civil Liberties
April 23, 2003

Marianne (Mimi) Wesson

Chilling Effects: Cross-burning, Pornography and Censorship

February 6, 2003

2001

Speaker Date

Susan Okin

International Development and the Importance of Gender
April 18, 2001

Cheryl Brown Henderson, Ronald C. Griffin, Stephen A. Adams

Giving Visibility, Voice and Victory to the Disenfranchised: A Legacy of Brown v. The Board of Education.

2000

Speaker Date

Mayor Bob Knight

Undoing Racism
October 19, 2000

Barbara Bergmann

Bringing About Equality Between Women and Men: What Needs To Be Done
September 20, 2000

Robert Meeropol

The Death Penalty: The Rosenbergs and Mumia Abu-Jamal
March 27, 2000

Lani Guinier

Civil Rights Activist
Co-sponsored with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Week Committee
January 18, 2000

1999

Speaker Date

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo

Human Rights and the Media

Noam Chomsky

Sovereignty and World Order
Co-sponsored with the Lou Douglas Lecture Series

September 20, 1999

1998

Speaker Date

Timothy E. Quill, M.D.

Physician-Assisted Death: Progress or Peril?

Barry W. Lynn

U.S. Surgeon General
Religious Right-Radically Wrong

Gwendolyn Mink

Feminists and Poor Single Mothers: Work, Welfare, and Women's Equalityr

1997

Speaker Date

Valorie K. Vojdik

Lead Counselor in Faulkner vs. Citadel

1996

Speaker Date

Professor Camille Hébert

Ohio State University College of Law
Drawing Analogies Between Sexual and Racial Harassment

March 19, 1996

Morris Dees, Jr.

Southern Poverty Law Center
Chief Trial Counselor

Dr. Joycelyn Elders

Former Surgeon General

Professor Nadine Strossen

President of ACLU