Lawrence Memorial Lecture
Professor Charles R. Lawrence II
Professor Charles R. Lawrence II was a member of the Department of Sociology from 1948 until his retirement in 1977. He served as chairman from 1966 to 1977. In addition to providing leadership to the department, Lawrence was the first black and only the third lay person to hold the presidency of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church's General Convention. He was instrumental in paving the way for the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church and played a leadership role as well in marshaling the church's efforts to end apartheid in South Africa. The Charles Lawrence II Memorial Lecture Series is presented by the Department of Sociology and the president of Brooklyn College. It was established in 1989 by his family and friends to honor his intellectual and spiritual legacy.
More Information
For further information about this lecture series, contact Associate Professor Tamara Mose, organizer and chair, Charles Lawrence II Memorial Lecture Committee.
Past Charles Lawrence Memorial Lecture Speakers
| Speaker | Lecture Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Mignon Moore, Barnard College | The World Has Changed: LGBTQ People Navigating Family, Politics, and Culture | 2018 |
| Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University | College Students Doing Racism: White Racial Framing | 2016 |
| Charles Lawrence III, University of Hawaii-Manoa | Danger! Educated Black Man: The Performance of Race in a "Post-Racial" World | 2014 |
| Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Duke University | The Sweet Enchantment of Post Civil Rights Racism: America's Racial Nightmare from the 1970s to the Obama Moment | 2013 |
| Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Confronting Precarious Work: Toward a New Social Contract | 2011 |
| Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center-CUNY | Popular Power in a Golbalizing World | 2007 |
| Irving Horowitz, Rutgers University | The Limits of Social Policy and the Changing Character of Social Science in the US: Comparing 1904 and 2004 | 2004 |
| Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University | America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor | 2001 |
| Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University | Capitalism and Well-being: Governance in the 21st Century | 1999 |
| Robert K. Merton, Columbia University | De-Gendering 'Man of Science': A Venture in Sociological Semantics | 1998 |
| Barbara J. Fields, Columbia University | Race in American Life | 1997 |
| Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University | The War Against the Poor and the Job Crisis | 1996 |
| Hylan Lewis, Brooklyn College-CUNY | What's in a name? The Semantic Politics of Poverty, Race, and Class | 1995 |
| Frances Degen Horowitz, Graduate Center-CUNY | 'You Said It Would Be Safe': Children and Violence | 1994 |
| William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago | The Changing Context of Race and Poverty in Urban America | 1993 |
| Eugene D. Genovese, University Center-Atlanta | The Southern Conservative Tradition | 1992 |
| John Hope Franklin, Duke University | Whither American Brotherhood? | 1990 |
| Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Harvard University | Balm in Gilead: On Love, Justice, and the Word | 1989 |
