Robert G. Bone Lecture Series

The Robert G. Bone Distinguished Lecturer Series was established by the late Illinois State University President Robert G. Bone (1956-1967). Shared by the Departments of History, Politics and Government, and Sociology & Anthropology, it enables these departments to bring distinguished scholars to Illinois State University to deliver a public lecture and to meet with faculty and students.   This year’s event will be funded by ISU Foundation on behalf of the Department of History.

Bone Lecture to offer postcolonial historical sociology of militarized policing in Britain and the U.S.

Dr. Julian Go, professor and director of Graduate Studies and faculty affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago, will be giving a public talk on his new book, Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the U.S., 1829-present, as the Robert G. Bone Distinguished Lecturer for 2024 on March 28, at 6 p.m. at the Bone Student Center, Old Main Room. The event is free and open to the public.