The Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in the History of Psychology
11th Annual Benjamin Lecture
Save the Date: May 15, 2025
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About the Benjamin Lecture
This lecture series honors Dr. Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., an outstanding teacher, scholar, and researcher, whose work has contributed significantly to our understanding of psychology and its history.
The annual Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in the History of Psychology is hosted by the Cummings Center each year in May.
Past lectures are listed below. Click the links to access recordings of these lectures via the Cummings Center YouTube channel:
2024: Dr. Joseph E. Trimble, Principled Perspectives for Research with Indigenous Communities
2023: Dr. Rosie Phillips Davis, From Cradle to Chapter Three: The Impact of Poverty on My Life
2022: Dr. David B. Baker, Saving Time: The History of Psychology and the Human Experience
2021: Postponed due to COVID-19
2020: Postponed due to COVID-19
2019: Dr. Laura Stark, The Other Akron: Searching for the “Normal” Mind in Postwar America
2018: Dr. David G. Myers, Teaching Psychological Science in a Post-Truth Age
2017: Dr. Keith Humphreys, Alcoholics Anonymous and Psychology: A Long and Winding Road
2015: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, A Life in Memory
2014: Dr. Andrew Winston, The Explication of Evil: Psychologists and the Holocaust, 1945-1955