Tag: Chicago

  • Nation & World

    Poetry in motion

    Prolific writer, scholar, and cultural organizer Eve L. Ewing is focused on community-based arts and culture projects in her city of Chicago.

    4 minutes
    Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall on stage at the second annual Chicago Poetry Block Party
  • Nation & World

    Unpacking the power of poverty

    Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.

    5 minutes
    Professor Robert Sampson
  • Nation & World

    A bleak, troubling history

    Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A Crimson kind of town

    Amid a discussion probing inequality, the Your Harvard series celebrates the University’s ties to Chicago.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A new view of gentrification

    Researchers used Google Street View to conduct a study of gentrification in Chicago.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Chicago as urban microcosm

    For his new book, Robert Sampson studied the Second City’s ups and downs for 15 years to outline patterns for many modern American cities.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rethinking work, beyond the paycheck

    Eighty years ago, the idea that workers were purely rational beings motivated solely by money dominated American business. But a famous study known as the Hawthorne Experiments, led by two men at Harvard Business School, helped to found the human relations movement.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    IOP welcomes former Chicago mayor

    The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School has announced the fall visiting fellowship of Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Secret identity

    Michael Fosberg learned of his African-American roots as an adult, and will tell his story at Harvard on April 6 in his one-man play “Incognito.”

    3 minutes