Journalist Alisa Roth is author of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. She discusses the mental healthcare crisis in the U.S. criminal justice system. Roth gave a talk at the UO titled "America's Hidden Mental Health Crisis" on March 12, 2019 as the 2018-19 Lorwin Lecturer in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

José M. Cortez, assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon, discusses his approach to the teaching of writing and rhetoric to students from diverse backgrounds. He talks about the importance of creating a scholarly community and wrapping students into research. He shares that the UO's commitment to diversity and inclusion, the SAIL program, and research opportunities for undergraduates are some of the things that attracted him to the faculty at the UO.

Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the UCLA School of Law, discusses how she came to the law and the argument she presents in her influential Harvard Law Review article "Whiteness as Property." She also talks about Derrick Bell and how he inspired her work. Harris gave the UO School of Law's Derrick Bell Lecture on February 19, 2019. Her talk titled "Affirmative Action Chronicles: From the Era of Colorblindness to White Nationalism" was part of this year's African American Workshop and Lecture Series.

Writer Karen Thompson Walker, assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, is author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Age of Miracles and most recently The Dreamers, which was published in January 2019. Thompson Walker reads from The Dreamers and discusses her writing.

Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. She talks about her role as the UO's chief diversity officer. Alex-Assensoh discusses how the UO encourages enrollment of underrepresented minority students and its efforts at diversifying the faculty. She also talks about how the UO supports undocumented students.

Thi Bui, artist and author of the illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do, a chronicle of her family's journey from war-torn Vietnam to America. The Best We Could Do is the University of Oregon's Common Reading book for 2018-19. Bui talks about her process of writing and illustrating the book.

The Oregon Humanities Center’s 2018–19 Robert D. Clark Lecture was delivered by Nalini Nadkarni, professor of Biology from the University of Utah. Nadkarni discusses how her experiences as a scientist precipitated her explorations into diverse ways of engaging humans with the natural world. Her lecture took place on Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni discusses her work studying the unique ecosystems in tropical and temperate rainforest canopies. She has developed novel ways to share scientific knowledge to a wide range of public audiences and has created programs to bring science and nature to the incarcerated. Nadkarni gave a talk "Tapestry Thinking: Weaving the Threads of Humans and Nature" on January 30th, 2019 as the Oregon Humanities Center's Robert D. Clark Lecturer.

Fiction writer, Cai Emmons, is author of the novels His Mother's Son, The Stylist, and most recently Weather Woman. She talks about the protagonist and themes in Weather Woman and reads from the book. Emmons earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program.

Mae Ngai, professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University, is the 2018-19 Wayne Morse Chair. She discusses the history of immigration to the United States; and talks about how restrictive immigration policy leads to increased illegal immigration. Ngai critiques the Trump administration's rhetoric and political stance on immigration. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Ngai gave a talk "Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea" on January 16, 2019.