Tuesday, 21 October, 2008

The Center for Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
We are pleased to join with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS) to present our October 23 conversation with Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. and Claude Steele, the director of the Center since 2005.  Among his many other honors, Skip Gates was a fellow at the Center in 2007-08.

CASBS is dedicated to advancing knowledge about human behavior and fostering contributions to society by facilitating interdisciplinary perspectives, depth of inquiry, integration of knowledge, and application to real world concerns.  The Center aims to bring the disciplines into contact with each other and broaden scholars' work beyond their specialized training.

Since the arrival of the first class in January 1955, CASBS has offered a place of sanctuary and stimulation for more than 2,000 distinguished scholars to do their best work and interact with peers from a rich variety of fields.  Each year, CASBS offers 40 to 50 residential fellowships for accomplished and promising scholars in fields that illuminate the questions of how people and societies behave.

The Center’s founders envisioned that fellows would in turn make significant contributions to human welfare. And indeed they have. Many of the most important theories in the behavioral sciences have originated here. CASBS takes pride in providing a milieu that enables scholars to do the kind of work that leads to awards that recognize significant contributions. The Center’s alumni include 20 recipients of the Nobel Prize, 10 winners of the Pulitzer Prize, 43 MacArthur Fellows, and 128 current members of the National Academy of Sciences.

For more information, visit www.casbs.org.

We look forward to seeing you at Kresge Auditorium on October 23.

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., one of the most influential voices in American academia today. Claude Steele, who has known Professor Gates over the course of his long, pioneering career, will guide an interview that illuminates various dimensions of this leading scholar’s life and work at Harvard, where he served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies from 1991 to 2006, as a writer for The New Yorker under Tina Brown, as a film and television documentary producer, and as a keen observer of the role of race in American society and politics. Related Themes: education, politics, race, scholarship