The Annual Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture
Through the generosity of the Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Fund, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity brings leading scholars, public intellectuals, and artists to address the Stanford community on vital issues relating to race and ethnicity.
The Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker series began in November 2005 and has continued to bring outstanding speakers each year. This lecture is free and open to the Stanford community as well as the public.
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2016 Lecture
Bryan Stevenson,
Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 | 7pm
Cemex Auditorium
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Doors open at 6:15pm and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis (this is a general admission, non-ticketed event). Overflow seating will be available.
Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed public interest lawyer and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, will deliver the 2016 Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture at a joint event sponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and OpenXChange on Wednesday, January 13, in Cemex Auditorium. The Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Fund annually brings leading scholars, public intellectuals, and artists to address the Stanford community on vital issues relating to race and ethnicity.
Stevenson, author of “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” will discuss his life and work.
A roundtable conversation, titled "Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System," will follow Stevenson’s address and include Stanford Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Eberhardt, Professor of Political Science Gary Segura, and Professor of Law Robert Weisberg. Award-winning journalist and Yahoo! Global Anchor Katie Couric will moderate the discussion.
The event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Stevenson's book will be available for purchase at the event.
Past Lectures
May 29, 2015
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark speaks on "The Looking Glass University: Listening to Strangers and Tending to Democracy."
May 9, 2014
Maxine Hong Kingston, National Book Award winner, National Humanities Medal recipient, Living Treasure of Hawaii, and Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley, speaking on telling stories about how race and ethnicity are vital to the human condition, war and peace, family, and history.
May 17, 2013
Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law (Harvard Law School) and Gerald Torres, Professor and Bryant Smith Chair in Law (University of Texas at Austin, School of Law). "The ABCs of Racial Literacy."
May 18, 2012
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, McArthur "Genius" fellow, and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaking on the pervasive force of race in his fiction and in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
May 4, 2011
Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch, III, Founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, speaking on how to build a national museum.
June 3, 2010
Claude M. Steele, Provost and Professor of Psychology (Columbia University). “Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us.”
December 11, 2008
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies (Princeton University). “Pecola's Politics: Black Women and Shame.”
April 24, 2008
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, National Medal of Arts recipient, Stanford University Alum, poet, and scholar. “Ethnic Perspectives on Oral Tradition.”
November 9, 2006
Lawrence D. Bobo, Marin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of Sociology (Stanford University). “Of Punitiveness and Prejudice: Racial Attitudes and the Popular Demand for Harsh Crime Policies.”
November 1, 2005
Glenda Carpio, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, English, and American Literature (Harvard University). “Slavery and Humor: Listing to Richard Pryor's Prison Play.”
