Available to the public for research and we host an ample number of programs. Thisevening , Anthony Pangaro who is a good friend of the Historical Society will do the honors of introducing our speaker. I wanted to take a moment to greet everyone and welcome you to the massachusetts Historical Society so without further ado i turn it over to Anthony Pangaro. [applause] good evening everyone, thank you gavin. Gavin has put together a terrific number of programs at massachusetts historical including definitive conversations about the era well over ayear ago which is where i first met liz. Its a pleasure for me to have a pleasant task of introducing liz and the book. How to begin . This is a book about a lifetimes work, about a career based in the strong premise that cities were important and vital to civilization,vital to this country, not only the world and i think liz has captured it. Ill let you her tell you about the book but ill tell you one story about it which lets you know how i f
Thank you so much. Thank you kindly. Book tv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome to the john f. Kennedy junior forum. My name i am a junior studying government at college and i am a member of the jfk junior Forum Committee at the institute of politics. Before we begin, please note the doors located on both the parkside and the jfk streetside of the form. In the event of them emergency, locked to the exit closest to you and congregate in the jfk parking lot. Please also take a moment to silence her cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the jfk junior forum live and interact with our student run instagram at jfk junior forum for behindthescenes highlights. Please take your seats out and join me in welcoming our guests and director of the center on media, politics and Public Policy, nancy gibbs. [applause]. Good evening and for those of you that have not had a chance this semester to make it across the charles hotel
We would like to thank mr. Schwartz for all of his support which has enabled us to reduce a wide array of willie wonderful programs. What we give him a hand. Of course our board of trustees has been really active and really helpful in bringing this institution to the level it is today we have a trustee who is with us today in the audience. All of our Chairmans Council member with us for their great work and support. Tonights program is going to last one hour and include questionandanswer since june. The q a will be conducted via written questions on note cards and you should have received something from one of our volunteers in the audience who note cards and pencils. And i will be going through, as soon as im done with introduction i will go through and collect cards as well. I will hand out to anyone who did not receive one on the way in. Also tonight after the on stage talk the speakers will be signing books for us in our ny history store on our 77th street side of the building and
Hes been at work on pearl. Laurence dunbar the life and times of a caged bird, published should say by the ever wonderful Princeton University press for well over a decade. His previous books are representing race a new political history of African American literature and deans and truants, race and realism in African American literature. Hes joined evening by his colleague in the English Department simon gikandi, whos currently search projects are on slavery and modernity. Decolonization in literature and global modernism. Professor eric arnesen many acclaimed books i wont list all, but they include slavery and the culture of taste and writing in limbo. Modernism and caribbean literature. Before i hand things over, i just wanted quickly to say, right before reading gene jarrett outstanding biography of Paul Laurence dunbar, i had read saidiya hartmans wayward lives beautiful experiments in which Paul Laurence dunbar makes few appearances and does not cut a great figure. And so came to
Good afternoon, everyone. I am the dean of the harvard graduate institute and is my pleasure to welcome all of you, whether you are joining us in person or online, to todays discussion on free speech on campus. We plan to this discussion some weeks ago, but i bet it has become an increasingly crucial conversation. Before i introduce those on todays program, allow me to express my gratitude to the Radcliffe Institute Leadership Society and our donors whose generosity keeps our program free and open to the public. I also want to thank todays distinguished speakers for sharing their expertise and perspectives, and i thank everyone who is joining us this afternoon for engaging in this critically important conversation. As i moved to an introduction of the substance of the program, i have a request for you. During this fraud period of understandably strong opinions and strong emotions, i ask that we engage with one another as generous listeners. With open minds and open hearts. Thank you in