Videos

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom speaking at a podium

"Public Knowledge in Critical Times," Oct. 25, 2023

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom and Professor Sarah Mayorga sitting in chairs and talking

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom in conversation with Professor Sarah Mayorga, Associate Professor of Sociology, Oct. 26, 2023

Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson speaks from the podium

"White Rage: From Reconstruction to the January 6th Insurrection" Oct. 26, 2022

Wearing masks, Carol Anderson and Rajesh Sampath sit on a stage

Carol Anderson in conversation with Rajesh Sampath, Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights, and Social Change at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Oct. 24, 2022

Howard C. Stevenson

Howard Stevenson giving Gittler Prize speech

“Crops With No Plow: Racial Literacy as Antidote – Not Cure – to Racial Threat,” Nov. 18, 2021

three people sitting in chairs, talking

Howard Stevenson in conversation with Joseph Reimer, Professor, Education Program and the Hornstein Program for Jewish Professional Leadership, and Maria Madison, Lecturer, Associate Dean of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, and Director Institute for Economic and Racial Equity

John Paul Lederach

John Paul Lederach wearing the Gittler Prize medal speaking at a podium

"Dispatches from Nowhere Near the Promised Land: How a Peacebuilder Unlearned His Trade," Oct. 30, 2019

Toni Shapiro-Phim and John Paul Lederach seated at a table

John Paul Lederach in conversation with Toni Shapiro-Phim, Associate Professor of Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation and Assistant Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, October 30, 2019

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Beverly Daniel Tatum

"Closing the Empathy Gap: Community Building through Dialogue," October 3, 2018

Derron Wallace and Beverly Daniel Tatum

Beverly Daniel Tatum in conversation with Derron Wallace, Professor of Education and Sociology, October 3, 2018

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Kimberlé Crenshaw

"Race, Reform, Retrenchment Redux: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality Beyond Post Racialism," October 25, 2017

Kimberlé Crenshaw and Rajesh Sampath

Kimberlé Crenshaw in conversation with Rajesh Sampath, Professor of the Heller School, October 23, 2017

Martha Minow

Martha Minow

"Bystanders, Upstanders and Justice," February 25, 2016

Martha Minow and Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

Martha Minow in conversation with Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Associate Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, February 26, 2016

Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez

"Liberation Theology and Social Activism," October 5, 2014

Gustavo Gutiérrez and Rajesh Sampath

Gustavo Gutiérrez in conversation with Rajesh Sampath, Professor of the Heller School, October 6, 2014

Patricia Collins

Patricia Hill Collins

"With My Mind Set on Freedom: Black Feminism, Intersectionality and Social Justice," October 29, 2013

Patricia Hiill Collins in conversation with Laurie A. Nsiah-Jefferson

Patricia Hill Collins in conversation with Laurie A. Nsiah-Jefferson, senior scientist and senior lecturer at Brandeis University, October 28, 2013

Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam

"The Continuing Significance of Race in America's Politics of Inequality," November 15, 2012

Doug McAdam and David Cunningham

Doug McAdam in conversation with David Cunningham, Professor of the Heller School and Sociology, November 14, 2012

Clayborne Carson

Clayborne Carson

"Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy and the Global Freedom Struggle," February 14, 2012

Clayborne Carson

Clayborne Carson in conversation with David Cunningham, Professor of the Heller School and Sociology, February 13, 2012

Frances Smith Foster

Frances Smith Foster

"Conjuring Culture and Other Extracurricular Activities," November 29, 2011

Frances Smith Foster

Frances Smith Foster in conversation with Faith Smith, Professor of African and African American Studies and English, November 29, 2011

Seyyid Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

"Re-evaluating the Meaning of the Other in Our Lives," November 30, 2010

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr in conversation with Rajesh Sampath, Professor of the Heller School, November 29, 2010