The board of the boston book festival. The 11th annual boston book festival and i wanted to say a few words about why im here and why the book festival is important. For me of his journeys of emotion and explorations of the lived experiences of people i dont know and probably well never know. It truly is an inclusive community. I hope all of you will be thinking about joining us tomorrow. If you believe in the importance. You saw an animation here. If you want some swag you can go there as well. We are very committed to making sure the book festival is open to everybody. Its my pleasure to say just a few words. It is just on forgiveness. We are honored to have our panelists here today. In the dean of the Radcliffe Radcliffe institute. They will introduce the panel. Good morning everyone. I am the dean of the radcliffe institute. And a professor at the harvard law school. Im just delighted to moderate at this session on violence, justice in forgiveness. The three authors on this panel h
You can also follow along behind the scenes on social media. Welcome once again to our next program. I went to give special think use it to all of our sponsors. Wind trust as window trust is our programming sponsor. Three elle real l real estate in cspan book tv. If there is time at the end for a q a session with the authors we ask that you use the microphone in the center of the room. Please silence all of your cell phones and if you do choose to take photographs of our presenters please turn off the flash 1720 to 1830m scott human. With that said our moderator. La we are really glad to be here today. We will try not to put you folks to sleep. We work with professor Henry Louis Gates junior. Until recently i was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture pioneers to the into bellum midwest. When i first started doing that research on the assumption was that there were four maybe fiveemp settlements that were homes to africanamerican
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Instead of talking about any, how can we take the work that we do as professionals and scholars and creat created a maximum impd that begins with asking the question how good are we at creating change. We are putting out a lot of effort and a lot of papers and research reports, publications, books and the like. But how much change is that leading to and could be tightened up so we are creating maximum change in the effort. Hence, most produced knowledge that serves to society and we hope the society actually gets served. But its kind of a mysterious process whether that occurs or not and there are things that determine whether it is create a social and policy change and a purpose to think about that. Over the years, when i think about my own work, ive had periods of frustration of not creating the difference of the work i was doing but it was what is happening in a lot of the fields that we produce scholarship and empirical studies and it could be reviews or legal scholarship that its
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