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Tag: Lawrence Bobo
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Nation & World
Why China has edge on AI, what ancient emperors tell us about Xi Jinping
Recent event examines what social sciences can tell us about rising economic, geopolitical power.
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The quote machine
Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.
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Nation & World
The gathering storm
Experts assess the state of the nation amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with race during a talk sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and PBS.
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FAS announces ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration positions
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will hire a cluster of faculty in the area of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration during the upcoming academic year, Dean Claudine Gay announced.
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Pickering named director of Peabody Museum
Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.
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Giving Du Bois his due
Dean Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, discusses the vast intellectual legacy of Du Bois and how the field of sociology has finally begun to reconsider his rightful place in the discipline’s history books.
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Bobo named dean of social science
A scholar whose research probes inequality, politics, and race, Lawrence D. Bobo has been appointed dean of social science at Harvard. He takes the helm Oct. 1.
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New group of Harvard College Professors
Robin Bernstein, Lawrence Bobo, George Lauder, Yukio Lippit, and Amy Wagers have been named Harvard College Professors.
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Black like we
A panel discussion introduced an exhibit of photos from the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 that shows African-Americans as they wished to be depicted, not as a discriminatory American society would have had them be.
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Exploring black political thought, now and then
Professor Michael Dawson’s most recent book, “Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African American Mass Political Ideologies” (University of Chicago Press, 2001), brings a historical perspective to black political ideologies.…