Tag: Lawrence Bobo

  • 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.

    3–5 minutes
    Face recognition equipment in China's subways.
  • Campus & Community

    The quote machine

    Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.

    18–27 minutes
    Toni Morrison, Amanda Gorman, Paul Farmer, Jill Lepore, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Annette Gordon Reed, Drew Faust, Gish Jen.
  • 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.

    8–12 minutes
    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
    Harvard gate
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–6 minutes
    Jane Pickering
  • Nation & World

    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.

    9–14 minutes
    W.E.B Du Bois.
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    2–3 minutes
    Lawrence D. Bobo.
  • Campus & Community

    New group of Harvard College Professors

    Robin Bernstein, Lawrence Bobo, George Lauder, Yukio Lippit, and Amy Wagers have been named Harvard College Professors.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    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. “The work tries to assess, using public opinion materials as well as other types of archival materials, to what degree do some of the historically…

    1–2 minutes