What can the quantitative approach reveal, but, more importantly, in what situations can it not tell us what we need to know, both because of the inherent limits of quantification and because of the way knowledge is socially constructed in quantitative communities? Annual James Baldwin Lecture series speaker, Arvind Narayanan, is a professor of computer […]
Professor Gooding-Williams's paper, "Du Bois and 'The Souls of White Folk'" is a study of W.E.B. Du Bois's moral psychology of white supremacy. Du Bois means his moral psychology to serve two purposes. The first is a social scientific explanation—specifically, the social scientific explanation of the domination and exploitation of the world’s darker peoples. The […]
Opening of exhibit of works by Samuel Fosso, one of the best-known African photographers.
Shaun Ossei-Owusu is an interdisciplinary legal scholar with expertise in legal history, criminal law and procedure, civil rights, and the legal profession. His work sits at the intersection of law, history, and sociology, and focuses on how governments meet their legal obligations to provide protections and benefits to poor people and racial minorities. He also works on stratification in […]
Jeffrey Yoo Warren presents his project, Seeing Providence Chinatown, a virtual reconstruction of the since-disappeared Chinatown in Providence.
Juliet Hooker's talk explores the key role that political mourning has historically played in Black politics.
Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, will discuss questions of visibility and belonging in Latinx photography in the United States.
Peter James Hudson discusses the debates on anti-imperialism and Black Studies.