Colloquia | Annual Lectures | Upcoming Conferences
Richard Thompson Ford of Stanford Law School will give the W. Allison Davis '24 and John Davis '33 Lecture on November 6. The title of his talk will be announced soon.
Claudia Stevens, independent playwright and actress, will present her one-woman play Blue Lias, or the Fish Lizard's Whore, at the Centerstage, '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, at 8 pm on September 23. This production will be presented under the aegis of the Richmond Lecture.
Ronald Green, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Dartmouth College, will give this year's Weiss Lecture, "Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Code."
Annual Lectures
The Center sponsors the three annual lectures described below.
The W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture commemorates the remarkable work of two distinguished scholars, brothers who, throughout their adult lives, made important contributions to equal rights and opportunity in the United States. Allison Davis, 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 aspect of race, class, or education in the United States.
Patricia Williams
Previous Davis Lecturers:
The Richmond Lecture brings to campus authorities with broad scientific and humanistic interest, particularly those with some focus on the history or philosophy of science. This lectureship is made possible by an endowment established by Don Richmond, Professor of Mathematics at Williams for many years.
Bruno Latour
Previous Richmond Lecturers:
The Weiss Lecture promotes the discussion of the work of prominent scholars in the field of health care broadly conceived, including the economics of health care as well as biomedical/ethical issues. This lecture series is possible because of a generous gift from Dr. Andrew B. Weiss, '61 and his wife, Madge Weiss.
Helen Epstein
Weiss Lecturers: