MEDIA COVERAGE
Speaking & Media Requests
If you would like Dr. Rhondda Thomas or any member of the Call My Name team to speak at your event or conference, please contact us via email at callmynamecu@clemson.edu, or by telephone at (864) 401-6216
Media requests should be directed to Amy Smith, Clemson’s Vice President for University Relations and Chief Marketing and Communication Officer via email smith92@clemson.edu or telephone (864) 656.4233
Below are video recordings of some of Dr. Thomas’s speaking engagements:
Humanities and Public Life in the Age of Covid (panelist), Obermann Center, University of Iowa, March 25, 2020
Book Talk with Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Author of Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
Obermann Center, University of Iowa, November 30, 2020
THE POWER IN CALLING A NAME
TEDX GREENVILLE, UNKNXWN, MARCH 29, 2019
“We experience three deaths: your last breath, your body buried, and your name spoken the final time. Only by calling the names and sharing the stories of people who are forgotten, but whose labor was essential for our existence, can we create a compete and complex community history. Stories about specific people can help us talk about topics many of us want to avoid.
Calling their names and sharing their stories will lead some people to respond and help fill out this history, helping ensure these names are never unknown.”
THE POWER OF CALLING A NAME
Clemson College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities, August 25, 2020