The crown jewel of the Inequality in America Initiative is our postdoctoral scholars program, and today we are featuring two members of our fifth cohort: Peter Harvey talking on education and Jessica Katzenstein talking on police reform. Two of our august faculty…Continue Reading 5th Dean’s Symposium: Inequality in America
Today’s symposium is ‘China in Focus: New Social Science Approaches,’ which should be especially timely and interesting. China, of course, is of increasing importance as a global economic force, as a technological leader, and as a geopolitical actor on the world stage….Continue Reading 4th Dean’s Symposium: China in Focus
Thank you all for making the time to join us for this year’s Inequality in America symposium. I’m Claudine Gay, the Edgerley Family Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. And I’m thrilled to be the official host. But the real attraction will be the scholars who are going to be joining us and sharing their work….Continue Reading 3rd Dean’s Symposium: Inequality in America
This afternoon’s topic is fighting truth decay. I very much suspect all of us have witnessed a level of contestation over scientific claims, even sometimes observations of seemingly obvious facts, or as is now emerged, ‘alternative facts’, that literally bewildering….Continue Reading 2nd Dean’s Symposium: Truth Decay
This session is on big data: opportunities, contributions, challenges, and limitations, an arena in which several of our departments are actively engaged in cutting edge scholarship and development….Continue Reading 1st Dean’s Symposium: Big Data
