News & Events
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute is pleased to offer a variety of ongoing events during the academic year. Please visit our online Calendar to find out more. If you would like to be added to the Institute’s events email list, please contact Dell M. Hamilton, Assistant Director at dhamilt@fas.harvard.edu.
To learn about our previous events, go to our News Archive, our list of past Lecture Series, or you can go to our Webcast page to find out how to view our archived events.
We often add new events and Webcasts. Please come back and visit us often.
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HBO's The Wire: Racial Inequality and Urban Reality
JFK Institute of Politics - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
79 JFK Street, CambridgeApr 4, 2008 5:00pm
Including a 4:30 PM screening of The Wire highlights.Moderated by William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University. Panelists: David Simon, Creator, “The Wire”, Nora L. Baston, Deputy Superintendent, Boston Police; Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Geoffrey Canada, President, Harlem Children's Zone. Co-sponsored with HBO, the Department of African and African American Studies, The Institute of Politics, the Rappaport Institute, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University.See the video of the event:
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Multimedia-Center - The Moynihan Report Revisited: A conference co-sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Harvard University Sociology Department and W.E. B. Du Bois Institute on African and African American Research.
“Moynihan Report Revisited” Conference podcast pages now available (February 2008):
http://conference.aapss.org/podcasts.cfm/
moynihan_conference_podcasts/his_report_and_his_times