2015 Papadopoulos Lecture, Shiri Eisner

April 21, 2015

Each spring, the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life sponsors the Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture. This annual endowed lecture is named for Nicholas Papadopoulos, who received his MA and PhD degrees in engineering from Harvard University. After Nick’s death from complications of AIDS in 1994, his mother created a fund in his name to support lectures about gay and lesbian studies or of interest to the gay and lesbian communities at Harvard.

Past speakers include:

  • 2009: Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Director of the new Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
  • 2010: Shannon Price Minter, Esq., Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
  • 2011: Kenji Yoshino , Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law New York University School of Law
  • 2014: Cherrìe Moraga, Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright, Stanford University
  • 2015: Shiri Eisner, activist, writer and researcher who wrote the book Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
  • 2017: Michael Bronski, Professor of Practice; Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences