Thursday, March 26, 2026
5:30 PM
Viet Thanh Nguyen
10th Annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights
Presented in partnership with the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Location: UT-Austin School of Law
Free, registration encouraged. Check back for updates and registration.
Please join us for the tenth annual Sissy Farenthold Endowed Lecutre in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights, which will be presented by Pulitizer Prize–winning author Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen is University Professor and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at the University of Southern California. His celebrated work includes To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (Harvard University Press, 2025), A Man of Two Faces (Grove Press, 2023), The Refugees (Grove Press, 2017), and The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015), which received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Named in honor of Sissy Farenthold (1926-2021), who dedicated her life to exposing and responding to injustices as a lawyer, legislator, and global leader in human rights, this lecture series inspires audiences to think and act creatively in response to the greatest human rights challenges of the 21st century. Read more on the lecture series here.