UE Hosting Dr. Luis Fraga for Constitution Day Lecture

Evansville, IN (09/14/2022) — The University of Evansville (UE) will host a Constitution Day lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 20. The lecture will be held in Smythe Lecture Hall, located on the first floor of the Schroeder School of Business Building, and it is titled "Looking Back to Move Forward: Voting Rights in the United States."

UE welcomes Dr. Luis Fraga, a member of the Political Science faculty at the University of Notre Dame. Fraga, who will deliver the lecture, serves as the Rev. Donald P. McNeill Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership and Director of the Institute for Latino Studies. His visit to UE is part of the Hesburgh Lecture Series of the University of Notre Dame, and his speech will be based on his expert testimony to the House Judiciary Committee in 2021 on the history of voter disenfranchisement.

The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.

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