Lectures in Law and Humanities endowed by Loebsack & Brownlee, PLLC

230 Kappa St,Clemson SC 29634

03 March, 2022

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak at Clemson on the consequences of being “Evicted” Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted,” will speak at Clemson for the revival of the Humanities Hub lecture series at Clemson University. The lecture will kick off the Humanities Hub’s “Lectures in Law and Humanities” series, endowed by Loebsack & Brownlee, PLLC. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on March 3 in the Self Auditorium in the Strom Thurmond Institute on Clemson’s campus. Desmond, a sociologist in the faculty of Princeton University is a leading researcher on the societal consequences of eviction. “Evicted” follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep from losing their homes. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), the book sets “a new standard for reporting on poverty” (The New York Times).