Do a little showandtell from my own research work, and the timing of this turned out that doing something Historical Perspective on pandemic preparedness might seem like a really interesting topic for us to is discuss. And i think i have mentioned to you all that i have been getting a lot of calls from journalists lately, and its kind of like, why in the middle of an ongoing pandemic are they calling up people like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. Its about how you whoops, went too fast there. How you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked a little bit about the reaction sometimes you may get from family members when they hear youre a history major or minor or taking a history course. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all of this old stuff . I can tell you personally, i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history
Calling out people . Like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. This is about how you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked about the reaction you sometimes make it from family members when they hear they when they hear you are a history major. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this stuff . I can tell you personally i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today. Why should we bother looking at the history of diseases and how he responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother and why i am proud to be a historian. Come on in, justin. Why i am really psyched about what i do. That is objective number one. I want to make you proud of being a history major, so here proud. Ay of saying i am my second goal is to talk specifically about pande
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall discussing his personality and skill as a storyteller and impact on their careers well hear from judges and harvard law professor and elena kagan. Im Doug Ginsburg and since nobody else seems here to do it, ill introduce our panel for this evening. This look back at Justice Thurgood marshall. To my immediate left if you have not guessed it Justice Elena kagan. Justice kagan was with Justice Marshall in what year. 87. Seems like yesterday, after having attended princeton and then oxford and then harvard for law and serviced in judge mcvaus chambers and all of our panelists served on a court. It was a good court. It was a great court. And was in the White House Council office and then Clinton Administration and then in the policy council as deputy director. Couldnt she keep a job apparently. Taught at university of Chicago Law School and then after getting tenure there moved on and settled at harvard. Not very long after that became the dean of Har
Time, dissents, wired, the globe, and many others. Shell be joined in conversation this evening with kendra alberta clinical instructor at Harvard Law School where they keep school at a Practice Technology law by working with pro bono clients. Covering topics such as facial recognition, on Online Harassment and freedom of expression tonight theyre going to discuss joanne lurking. Old resonate deeply with anyone who goes online and learned not shouting grandstand. Never cynical Joanne Mcneil trayce insightful ways. For what has been and what has been stolen and what utopian possibilities might still be discovered. We are so pleased to host this event here at Harvard Bookstore tonight, please welcome me joining Joanne Mcneil and kendra alberts. [applause] i thought to start i have a really brief reading id like to do . Should i read there . Or here . Or see that its up to you. Smack i will stand up its just a short passage but it will give you a sense of the style of the book. This is in
Kind of like, why in the middle of a pandemic are they calling people like me . So this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course, it is about how you become a historian, and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class, we talked a little bit about the reaction you may sometimes get from family members when they hear you are a history major or minor or even taking a history course, that, why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this old stuff . I can tell you personally i get , those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today, why should we bother looking at the past history of diseases and how we responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother, and why i am proud to be a historian, why i am really psyched about what i do. So that is objective number one. I said the first week of class, i want to make you proud o