• Jean-Godefroy Bidima - McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series
    April 22, 2008 - 4:00pm
    Yves Arnoult Chair of Francophone Studies, Tulane University
    Jean-Godefroy Bidima
    Poetics and Politics of Hermeneutics: Crossings and Becomings in Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in Africa  
    Lecture 1: The Possibility of a "Narrative Ethics": Orality in Justice and Care in Africa

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    232
  • HBOs The Wire: Racial Inequality and Urban Reality
    April 4, 2008 - 5:00pm
    Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and Author of, "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor"
    William Julius Wilson
    Creator and Executive Producer of HBO’s "The Wire"
    David Simon
    Deputy Superintendent, Boston Police Department
    Nora Baston
    President & CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone and Author of, "Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America"
    Geoffrey Canada
    Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Author of, "Gang Leader for a Day"
    Sudhir A. Venkatesh
     
    Sponsored by Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard’s
    Department of African and African American Studies, Kennedy School Institute of Politics, Kennedy School
    Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management,
    Kennedy School Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, HKS Urban Policy PIC,
    Harvard College Black Men’s Forum.

     

    JFK Forum, Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge MA
    245
  • Suesan Stovall - Artist's Talk
    March 19, 2008 - 5:00pm
    Suesan Stovall
    Journey Of My Soul: Come Along for the Ride

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    231
  • Professor Gates on The Tavis Smiley Show
    March 19, 2008 (All day)
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr. weighs in on Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race.  March 19, 2008.

     

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  • Richard Alba - Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
    March 13, 2008 - 6:30pm
    Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany, SUNY
    Richard Alba
    Blurring the Color Line: Possibilities for Ethno-Racial Change in Early 21st Century America
    Lecture 3: Contingencies of Change

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    282
  • Richard Alba - Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
    March 12, 2008 - 6:30pm
    Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany, SUNY
    Richard Alba
    Blurring the Color Line: Possibilities for Ethno-Racial Change in Early 21st Century America
    Lecture 2: Dynamics of Change

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    281
  • Richard Alba - Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
    March 11, 2008 - 6:30pm
    Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany, SUNY
    Richard Alba
    Blurring the Color Line: Possibilities for Ethno-Racial Change in Early 21st Century America
    Lecture 1: Lessons From the Past

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    280
  • Kenneth W. Warren - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    November 29, 2007 - 4:00pm
    Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English, Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues, University of Chicago
    Kenneth W. Warren
    What Was African American Literature?
    Lecture 3: The Future of the Past

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    254
  • Kenneth W. Warren - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    November 28, 2007 - 4:00pm
    Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English, Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues, University of Chicago
    Kenneth W. Warren
    What Was African American Literature?
    Lecture 2: Particularity and the Problem of Interpretation

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    184
  • Kenneth W. Warren - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    November 27, 2007 - 4:00pm
    Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English, Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues, University of Chicago
    Kenneth W. Warren
    What Was African American Literature?
    Lecture 1: Historicizing Race, Historicizing Literature

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    183