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Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
February 4, 2010
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Colored People
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
November 12, 2009
01:21:42
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research and the Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor at Harvard University, discusses his memoir Colored People. This lecture is co-presented by Cambridge READS.
Digital Inclusion
Iqbal Quadir
October 24, 2009
00:32:34
Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing count
Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
James Orbinski
October 21, 2009
00:59:29
Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century. During his medical school days, James Orbinski journeyed to Rwanda on a year-long research trip.
Never Again, Again, Again...
Lane Montgomery
October 6, 2009
00:37:29
Lane Montgomery discusses her photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur.
Global Markets in the 2009 Economic Crisis (Part 2)
Jagdish Sheth
June 20, 2009
Jagdish Sheth, professor of marketing at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and David Bruce, professor at J. Mack Robinson College of Business, lead a discussion at the Southern Center for International Studies' Young Professionals annual conference.
Saurel Quettan on the Transformation of Haiti
Saurel Quettan
April 22, 2009
01:07:00
Saurel Quettan, public relations officer of The Haitian Alliance, discusses the state of Haiti's current challenges and proposes a roadmap for the transformation of the country.
Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa
Pamela Brooks
April 2, 2009
01:15:47
Pamela Brooks shares from her new book Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa.