Date | Speaker and Topic |
9/8 | Glenn C. Loury (Boston Univ., Dept. of Economics and IRSD), "The Quest for Equal Dignity and the Problem of Racial
Stigma" |
9/15 | Drew Smith (Morehouse College, Leadership Institute) "Race, Religion, and Nationalism: Group Politics and Social
redemption in America" – Photonics Building, 8 St.
Mary’s St., Room 202 |
9/22 | Christopher Jencks (Harvard, JFK School of Governmentt) "The Black-White Test Score Gap: Does It Matter? Can We
Reduce It?" |
9/29 | Tukufu Zuberi (University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies
Center) "Deracializing Empirical Logic" |
10/8
Friday | Elijah Anderson (Univ. of
Pennsylvania, Dept. of Sociology) "The Code of the Streets:
Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City" Presentation
2:00 pm — 3:30pm |
10/13 | Nazli Kibria, (Boston Univ., Dept. of Sociology) "The Contested Meaning of ‘Asian American’" |
10/20 | Loic Wacquant, (UC Berkeley,
Dept. of Sociology) "Four Peculiar Institutions" |
10/27 | David Wong (Brandeis Univ., Dept of Philosophy) "Liberalism and the Dilemmas of Value Pluralism" |
11/3 | Tracey Meares (Univ. of Chicago, Law School) "The Role of Legitimacy in Criminal Law Policy" |
11/10 | Melissa Nobles (M.I.T., Political Science) "The Politics of Race and the Census in the United States
and Brazil" |
11/17 | John DiIulio (Princeton, Dept. of Politics) "Race and a Case for Zero Prison Growth" |
11/23
Tuesday | Alan Krueger (Princeton, Dept. of Economics) "The Legacy of Separate and Unequal Schooling, and What
To Do About It" |
12/1 | Doug Besharov (Univ. of Maryland, School of Public Affairs) "African American Marriage and Childbearing" |
12/3
Friday | Amy Gutmann (Princeton, Dept. of Politics) "What Kind of Affirmative Action for Whom?" –
Presentation 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
12/8 | William Dickens (The Brookings Institution) and James R.
Flynn (University of Otago) "The Interaction of Environment and Measured Intelligence:
The IQ Mystery Solved" |
12/15 | Kasirim Nwuke (BU-ASC, Eastern Nazarene College) "Managing Ethnic Division and Conflict: Lessons from Nigeria" |
