Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture Series
The Friends of the Knox County Public Library established the Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture in 2007 to honor the late writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist and friend of local libraries. Friends of the Knox County Public Library and the Library Society of the University of Tennessee have co-sponsored the lecture since 2014.
Speakers represent a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and work, but all have a deep connection to one or more of Stokely’s passions: Appalachia, the environment, and racial and gender equity.
Previous Lecture Guests
2025 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Halle Hill and Terry Roberts
2024 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Carolyn Finney
2023 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Ashley York, in conversation with Elaine McMillion Sheldon
2022 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Kathleen Dean Moore and Chrissy Keuper
2021 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Wiley Cash and Frank X Walker
2020 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Michael W. Twitty
2019 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Silas House
2018 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Nikki Giovanni
2017 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Amy Greene
2016 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Robert Morgan
2015 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Dom Flemons
2014 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture
Ron Rash