HSOC Speakers Series
Leaders in social science scholarship provide analysis of the complex issues related to the development of contemporary communities
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Recent Submissions
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Truth under Siege: Making Climate Knowledge in an Age of Transparency, Skepticism, and Science Denial
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-11)This talk examines the history of environmental data systems in the context of the current US administration’s assault on environmental science. Tracking and understanding environmental change requires scientific memory, ... -
Health Impacts of Mass Incarceration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-10-02)Reentry is a process that occurs the moment a person is imprisoned, released from prison, and reintegrates back into society, often without much direction. Given the marginalization of this terminology, we refer to the ... -
Race, Reparations and Reconciliation After the Genome
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-04)All are welcome for a public dialogue featuring two world-leading experts on the intersections of race and biomedicine in science and in society. Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, author of Body and Soul: The Black ... -
Racism and Health in the South
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-05)This public dialogue brings together two world-leading experts on the impact of racism on health: Camara Jones, President of the American Public Health Association and professor at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Jonathan ... -
Books, Libraries, and the Digital Future
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
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Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-02-25)Ivan J. Houston is an African American business icon and decorated World War II veteran and author. -
Mariamne Samad and the Creation of the Dashiki: The Making of a Radical Black Nationalist in Harlem and Jamaica
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-02-18)Dr. Leroy Davis is an Associate Professor of 20th Century African American and American History, 20th Century African Diaspora, at Emory University. -
Brutalism, Masterplans and Swinging London: Piccadilly Circus Re-imagined 1957–1973
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-04-14)David Gilbert is Professor of Urban and Historical geography in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway College, University of London, a member of the department’s Social and Cultural Geography Group and Director of ... -
The Rosewood Massacre: Reconstructing a Cold Case File
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-02-28)David Tereshchuk has written for many US publications including The New York Times, and AM New York, where "The Media Beat" began as a weekly column. He has also contributed to The Guardian, The Observer, and the New ... -
Altered States: Adapting Technologies for a Global Order in Upheaval
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09-20)Dr. Michael Adas is Abraham Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University
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