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Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality and Algorithmic Justice

Fri, Mar 23, 2018

For two decades Virginia Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. In this talk she discusses her book, _Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor_. It's a hard look at how we've turned over decision-making to algorithms and statistical models, leaving the disadvantaged and less-connected behind. Eubanks is joined in conversation by Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT. Presented by the Harvard Book Store, Harvard Kennedy School's digitalHKS, the MIT Center for Civic Media, and Mass Humanities. Photo: By United States Department of Agriculture [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Maryn McKenna on Agriculture, Antibiotics and Big Chicken

Tue, Feb 27, 2018

Acclaimed health and food policy journalist and Brandeis University Senior Fellow Maryn McKenna talks about her book 'Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.' She is joined in conversation by University of Massachusetts Lowell philosophy professor Nicholas Evans.

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Fifty Years Since MLK

Mon, Feb 26, 2018

Boston Review, Harvard Book Store, Mass Humanities, and the Cambridge Public Library welcome a panel of acclaimed educators--Brandon Terry, Tommie Shelby, Elizabeth Hinton, and Cornel West--to discuss the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Boston Talks About Racism

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Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline and the Renewal of City Life

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome NYU professor and scientific director of Crime Lab New York Patrick Sharkey for a discussion of his latest book, Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence. He is joined in conversation by sociologist and Harvard University professor William Julius Wilson. From New York’s Harlem neighborhood to South Los Angeles, Sharkey draws on original data and textured accounts of neighborhoods across the country to document the most successful proven strategies for combatting violent crime and to lay out innovative and necessary approaches to the problem of violence. At a time when crime is rising again and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable. (Image: [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/bird-s-eye-view-cars-crossing-crossroad-5486/ "Pexels") and Book Cover)

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Andrea Ritchie: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

Author, organizer, and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie sits with Georgetown law professor Paul Butler to discuss her book, _Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color._ Ritchie details the racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement violence experienced by women of color. Through the personal stories of Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall, Ritchie looks at the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, documents the evolution of movements centering women’s experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of how we view safety. Paul Butler is the author of _Chokehold: Policing Black Men._ Photo by[ The All-Nite Images/Flickr.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/7278633@N04/ "")

Policing The Black Community: Consequences & Activism

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Tina Brown: "The Vanity Fair Diaries"

Mon, Dec 11, 2017

Tina Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Daily Beast visited the Brattle Theater in Cambridge to talk about her book, "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992." She is joined in conversation by Meredith Goldstein, columnist and reporter for The Boston Globe.

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Khizr Khan: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice

Mon, Nov 6, 2017

**Khizr Khan** is a Muslim American and a Gold Star father. He stepped into public view at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where he gave a speech on the sacrifice of his son and the love for the country he had immigrated to as a young man. Now Khan is out with a memoir, "An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice" which outlines his experiences from arriving in the U.S. as a hopeful student, to his marriage and the family he raised with his wife, to losing his son while he served in the military, to ultimately deciding to publicly support Hillary Clinton's bid for President of the United States in 2016. In this talk presented by the Harvard Book Store, Khan talks with his former Harvard Law School professor **Martha Minow**. This event was co-sponsored by the [Cambridge Community Foundation](http://cambridgecf.org/ "CCF website"). (Image: Voice of America [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

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Kathryn Sikkink: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

Fri, Sep 29, 2017

Harvard Kennedy School professor Kathryn Sikkink explores the reasons we should aspire to guarantee human rights and in her new book "Evidence for Hope" she demonstrates with years of fieldwork how human rights work has been effective over time. Photo: [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-person-photo-227578/ "")

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Worldwide Week with Transition Magazine

Fri, Oct 27, 2017

A panel discussion hosted by Transition Magazine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Harvard Book Store. **About [World Wide Week](https://worldwide.harvard.edu/worldwide-week "")**: The Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University sponsored events to raise awareness of the school's global reach and presence around the world. **About Jalada 05 / Transition 123** Through fortuitous meeting in Kampala at the 2015 [Writivism Festival](http://writivism.com/ ""), Transition and Jalada have joined forces to present this issue on the theme of Fear. Contributors were asked to reflect on our phobias, the things that make us human or, indeed, inhuman. Our fears, and the dance between fear and fearlessness, can shape how we live and how we conceptualize ourselves and others. **About Transition 124** In this year marking the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation, Transition celebrates over four hundred years of Black presence in Canada.

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Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Sex and the Spaces Between

Tue, Nov 14, 2017

Philosopher, cultural theorist, and film critic **Mladen Dolar** will host two pillars of modern philosophy to talk about their latest works. **Slavoj Žižek** will break down his thinking on "the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy" laid out in his book _Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels_. **Alenka Zupančič** shares her exploration on what kind satisfaction we get from sex and how it might be replaced with satisfaction from equally sexual activities such as talking or writing, painting or praying. Her new book is titled _What IS Sex?_ Image by Thesupermat - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28518438

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