2024 Lamar Lecture Series

The Lamar Lecture Series is proud to announce the 2024 lecturer as Dr. Jay Watson of Ole Miss University. Dr. Watson’s three-lecture series is entitled “Ruinate Green: Southern Literatures and Environmental Lost Cause-ism.”

The first lecture in this series entitled, “Framing the Problem: Environmental Lost Cause-ism,” will be held at 10:10 a.m. in the Presidents Dining Room in the University Center on Monday, Oct. 7. The second lecture is named, “Holocene Lost Cause-ism: Ecological Generations and Geographies” and will be held at 6 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room that evening.

Dr. Watson’s final lecture entitled, “Ruinate: Caribbean Counterscapes” will begin at 6 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room on Tuesday, October 8.