A Conversation

From Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences: Join us for a conversation between scholars and university leaders Ruth J. Simmons, former president of Prairie View A&M University, Brown University, and Smith College, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute. They will discuss President Simmons’s new book, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Random House, 2023), as well as her personal journey, her pioneering work researching and sharing publicly universities’ historical ties to slavery, and her perspectives on the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and higher education in light of recent Supreme Court rulings.

Event Information:

• Tuesday, November 14, 2023
  4 PM ET
• Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
  10 Garden Street
  Cambridge, MA 02138