My Inaugural Lecture adopts a Gown to Town style in explaining what my professorship is about. So, I will start my lecture with a specific experience with my 2022/2023 third- year undergraduate students.
Mark Rumley / Special to the Medford Transcript
Our country today, indeed our world, is filled with deafening shouts. Shouts from those who do not seek any more than what others have but stand in refusal to accept less.
Their voices say “my life is sacred, do not take it”; “that empty seat at the table is mine, it’s time that I take my rightful place”. Their voices say “do more than hear me…listen to me… join with me…let us find freedom.”
Invoking the memory and spirit of those whose lives were stolen, the voices shout “Say her name…say his name” as a call for human dignity, human sanctity and freedom.