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IRRPP Event: The Annual Phillip J. Bowman Lecture: Charles Ogletree
March 12, 2014 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
FreeThe Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy’s
Annual Phillip J. Bowman Lecture in Race and Public Policy
Part of the Chancellor’s Lecture & Event Series
“Looking Back to Freedom Summer: Reflections on Race, Politics, and Civil Rights Activism”
Charles Ogletree
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law
Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice
Harvard University
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | 3:00 pm
Student Center East, Room 302
750 S. Halsted St.
RSVP to Ryan Viloria (rvilor1@uic.edu)
About the Speaker
Charles Ogletree is a prominent legal theorist who has earned an
international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law
and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for
everyone equally under the law. His most recent book is “The Presumption
of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime
in America,” which draws on the 2009 mistaken arrest of Gates to explore
issues of race and what must be done to create a more just legal system.
About the Phillip J. Bowman Annual Lecture
This lecture has been established to honor Phillip J. Bowman’s
contributions to UIC during his tenure as Director of IRRPP and Professor
of African American Studies. It features national scholars of race,
ethnicity, and public policy who provide timely analysis of issues that
are critical to the field and to communities of color. This year’s IRRPP
Bowman Lecture is one of a number of events leading up to “Freedom Dreams/
Freedom Now” a conference at UIC organized by the Social Justice
Initiative, May 28 -30, 2014, which will commemorate the 1964 Freedom
Summer Project and recent scholarship on the Civil Rights Era. For more
info, go to: http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/sji/
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
