The 2026 Lorwin Lecutre on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will be presented by Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, an acclaimed American sociologist, writer, cultural critic, and 2020 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She serves as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and an opinion columnist for The New York Times.
The Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was created in 2009 with funding from the estate of Val and Madge Lorwin. Lectures by renowned scholars and experts promote greater appreciation for the importance of civil rights. The lectureship, overseen by the College of Arts and Sciences and the UO School of Law, is administered on a rotating basis by three campus education and research centers: the Oregon Humanities Center, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Details of event TBA.