Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning book The Immortal Life of HenriettaLacks,presents a lecture and discussion about her book and her path to writing it. In The Immortal Life, Rebecca Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951...
Postdoctoral Fellows Megan Black, Samantha Iyer, Justin Leroy, and Stuart Schrader will offer brief presentations of their work, and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies. Also present and participating will be Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY), George Henderson (Wisconsin), Cedric Robinson (U.C., Santa Barbara), and Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University).
Sept. 22:Adam Lebovitz, Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, Harvard Law School, An Economy of Violence: Law, Necessity, and the South Sea Bubble, 1720-21
“From Fiscal Triangle to Passing Through: Rise of the Nonprofit Corporation"
Harvard Law School Law and History Workshop WCC (Wasserstein Hall) 4059 Please email Katie Fortunato, kfortunato@law.harvard.edu, for a copy of the paper.
Gabrielle Clark, PhD in Law and Society, New York University: “Planned Migration in WWII United States”Gabrielle Clark, PhD in Law and Society, New York University: “Planned Migration in WWII United States”