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2024 Judge Michael Wei Kwan Lecture Series on Justice and Equity

The Judge Michael Wei Kwan Lectures honor Judge Kwan’s legacy to the community and his 20 years as an adjunct faculty, advisor and mentor to SLCC’s Criminal Justice Program. In his memory, this annual event will feature local and national speakers to address SLCC and the communities we serve on current and relevant topics in equity, law, judicial reform and community engagement.

This year's event is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, in TB 104 at the Redwood Campus. Dr. Kathryn Bond Stockton will be the featured speaker.

The lecture series is sponsored by The Office of the Provost for Academic Affairs and supported by a speaker nomination/selection committee.

Judge Michael Wei Kwan Lecture featuring Dr. Kathryn Bond Stockton
Keynote Presentation "I Was a Queer Child, and So Were You."
Thursday, April 11, 2024
1 p.m. Book signing immediately following lecture

Taylorsville Redwood Campus 4600 S Redwood Rd.
Rampton Technology Building (TB) Room 104

Seating is first come, first served and doors open at 12:30 p.m.

Free parking for this event will be available in parking lots Q, P, and R.

If you need ADA accommodations, please contact the Accessibility & Disability Services by phone at 801-957-4659 or by TTY at 801-957-4646.


Keynote Speaker

Dr. Kathryn Bond Stockton

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Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and former inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah, where she teaches queer theory, theories of race and racialized gender, and twentieth-century literature and film. Two of her books—Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child (Duke University Press)—were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. In addition, her recent book Making Out (NYU Press) was a 2020 national finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. Her newest book (with MIT Press) is entitled Gender(s) and she has also authored God Between Their Lips (Stanford University Press). Stockton has taught at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory and, along with her university’s top teaching award, she has received the Equality Utah Allies Award for LGBT activism, the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize for Best Essay in Gay and Lesbian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah.