Trending Lectures
Why Does Latinx History Matter for Twenty-First-Century Politics?
Radical Friends: Amy Kirby Post, Frederick Douglass and Interracial Organizing in Antebellum America
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"
The Specter of Crisis: Slaveholder Reactions to Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil
Breadwinners: Working Women in the Early Struggle for Gender Equality
Honoring Native American Heritage
The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program features 42 speakers specializing in Native American history.
OAH Lecturers can be booked as guest speakers for in-person or virtual keynote addresses and lectures, book talks, to headline special events, conferences, and historical commemorations, and to lead workshops and professional development events.
Virtual OAH Lectures Offered
The Distinguished Lectureship Program has coordinated hundreds of virtual events for colleges, libraries, schools, historical societies, faith-based organizations, professional development workshops, museums, and community organizations. Virtual format options include live online presentations with Q&A, custom-recorded talks, as well as hybrid events (for an in-person audience and virtual attendees.)
It's an incredibly valuable program, especially as state schools like mine are facing major budget cuts. Access to experts like Dr. Erika Lee is incredibly valuable and might not be within our reach without this program.
— Jennifer Hildebrand, SUNY Fredonia, NY
About the Speaker
Deirdre Cooper Owens is Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Cooper Owens is the recipient of several prestigious honors in history and reproductive justice. An award-winning scholar, Dr. Cooper Owens’ first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gend...
Featured Lecture
Medical Bondage and the Birth of American Gynecology
Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. She retells the story ...