The Thurgood Marshall College Speaker Series (formerly the Scholar and Citizen Speaker Series) brings notable intellectuals, social activists, educators, and artists to campus who uphold the college philosophy of a more just society.
Over the last ten years we have hosted Nobel Laureates (Derek Wolcott, Wole Soyinka) , Pulitzer authors (Nicholas Kristoff), MacArthur “Genius” Fellows (Dr. Henry Louis Gates) and Oscar Nominees (Gregory Nava). On occasion, the topic and the scheduled speakers can cover an entire week of symposia and master classes for our students.
To Demand the University Work for Our People & Other Imagination for Our Collective Future
Date: June 3, 2021
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
This was a moderated discussion with Dr. Angela Y. Davis reflecting on Thurgood Marshall's 50th year and (re)imagining the future of Lumumba Zapata/Third/Thurgood Marshall College.
A conversation and Q&A with John Marshall, son of Justice Thurgood Marshall, joined by UC San Diego leadership and a current Thurgood Marshall student. Our panelists will discuss the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall, John Marshall’s own journey and what it means to be a Scholar and Citizen today. Moderated by Provost Leslie Carver.
The co-creator of Black Lives Matter shares her ideas and vision for sparking comprehensive societal change and ending social injustice, police brutality and systemic racism in America.
Join Marshall College for "Constructing Past and Present Identities: Evaluating Depictions of Angela Davis in Popular Culture", a lecture by special guest Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones.
Dr. Sharon L. Jones is currently a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Clemson University, and she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. She is editor of Conversations with Angela Davis (under contract with University Press of Mississippi) and has been collecting and compiling interviews of Angela Davis in magazines, academic journals, and/or newspapers published from the 1970s to the present.
Location: Atkinson Hall Auditorium (Warren College neighborhood)
Jim Sobieski is a civil rights attorney whose work during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 was pivotal in the statewide and national battle for civil rights.
Mr. Sobieski asks prior to his tenure as our guest speaker for Winter Quarter 2018, that those who are interested in attending his speech review the following:
Pulitzer Prize winner, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, Editor-in-Chief of The Marshall Project
Bill Keller is editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project. Keller worked for The New York Times from 1984 to 2014 as a correspondent, editor, and op-ed columnist. As a correspondent, he covered the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning a Pulitzer Prize, and the end of white rule in South Africa. From July 2003 until September 2011, he was the executive editor of The Times.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Tuesday, May 17th
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
Location: Thurgood Marshall College Administration Building, Conference Room 127
The Journey to Justice Speaker Series: "Achieving Judicial Diversity in San Diego," honors the legacy of the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, for which UC San Diego's Third College (1970) was renamed (1993).
It also serves to honor the legacy of the Hon. Earl B. Gilliam, San Diego's first African-American Municipal (1963)Superior Court (1975) United States District Court for the Southern District of California (1980) Judge and the Hon. Elizabeth A. Riggs, the first African-American woman Municipal (1979) Superior Court (1998) Judge.
CAMPUS PARTNERS
Thurgood Marshall College, African & African-American Studies Research Center, Department of Political Science, and Department of Sociology.
Celebrated New York Times columnist Americans Today and their Customized Cocoons
Frank Bruni, prominent Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, will discuss a troubling effect that web and social media technologies have had on American lives. While these tools open the world to us and enable unprecedented connections, they also have the effect of creating narrowly personalized niches that separate us from one another. Bruni will examine how this occurs and the way this contributes to the fracturing of our society. Drawing examples from politics to popular culture, he will talk about how, in his own life, he resists becoming confined to his own customized cocoon. Bruni’s career has run a fascinatingly diverse gamut. He has covered presidential campaigns, flew on the papal plane with Pope John Paul II, rode in a Bradley fighting vehicle in Saddam’s Iraq, and as The New York Times’ restaurant critic from 2004 to 2009, has dined his way through Manhattan’s best bars and eateries. Bruni joined The New York Times in 1995. In addition to the wide variety of hats that he has worn at The Times,he has also written two New York Times bestsellers: a memoir, “Born Round,” and “Ambling Into History,” a chronicle of George W. Bush’s campaign for the presidency.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Time: 7:00 PM Location: UC San Diego Mandeville Theater free and open to the public no tickets or reservations required parking is $4.00 after 4:30 p.m.
CAMPUS PARTNERS
Thurgood Marshall College, Helen Edison Lecture Series, and Council of Provosts
*Non-Discrimination Statement In accordance with applicable Federal and State law and University policy, the University of California does not discriminate, or grant preferences, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and/or other protected categories.
Dr. Angela Y. Davis - Spring 2021
John Marshall - Fall 2020
Chris Lam - Spring 2019
Frank Bruni, prominent Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, will discuss a troubling effect that web and social media technologies have had on American lives. While these tools open the world to us and enable unprecedented connections, they also have the effect of creating narrowly personalized niches that separate us from one another. Bruni will examine how this occurs and the way this contributes to the fracturing of our society. Drawing examples from politics to popular culture, he will talk about how, in his own life, he resists becoming confined to his own customized cocoon.
