Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life and Legacy of Award-Winning Biographer & Historian Stephen B. Oates
Please join us for a full-day symposium and memorial service for the award-winning historian Stephen B. Oates, emeritus professor of history, celebrating his contributions as biographer, public intellectual, teacher, and colleague.
Friday, September 9, 2022
9 am – 5 pm
Old Chapel
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The event is free, although space is limited. All are welcome for any portion of the day.
Please RSVP by Friday, September 2. Visit the registration page or email Julie Martel at julie.martel@umass.edu
Speakers include:
- Harold Holzer, keynote speaker, renowned Lincoln scholar, and current chair of The Lincoln Forum;
- Catherine Clinton, acclaimed author & Civil War historian
- Frank Williams, retired chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and chair emeritus of The Lincoln Forum
- David A. Lowy ’83, associate justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges & Universities; 18th president of Mount Holyoke College
- Gretchen H. Gerzina, professor of English and Paul Murray Kendall chair in biography, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Carla Kaplan, Davis distinguished professor of American literature, professor of women’s, gender, & Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University
- Playthell Benjamin, Black Studies pioneer, scholar, award-winning journalist, and broadcaster
- Jonathan Hensleigh ’81, major motion picture writer, director, and producer
- Joyce Berkman, emerita professor of history, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Helen Sheehy, praised biographer and lecturer.
Sponsored by the Department of History, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the UMass Amherst Libraries