Crime, Punishment and Social Change, the 1918 Flu and Pale Horse Pale Rider - 9.20.2020

Barbara Reich

Topic: Organizing your Home
Bio: Author of Secrets of An Organized Mom: From the Overflowing Closets to the Chaotic Pay Areas: A room-by-room Guide to Decluttering and Streamlining Your Home for a Happier Family
Reading Assignment: Chapter 1 of Pale Horse Rider by Katherine Anne Porter 

Barbara Reich Q&A

Susan Marquis

Topic: Finding New Ways to Think About and Implement Public Policy
Bio: Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA

Chris Patterson

Topic: Diffusing Violence in the Inner-city without Resorting to the Police
Bio: Senior Director of Programs and Policy at the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago

Chris Patterson Q&A

Robert Sampson

Topic: Community and Neighborhood effects and Crime
Bio: Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard

Robert Sampson Q&A

Nancy Bristow

Topic: The Costs of Forgetting: Covid-19 and Parallels with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Bio: History Department Chair at the University of Puget Sound
Reading Assignment: American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, Chapter 5, click here.

Nancy Bristow Q&A

Elizabeth Outka

Topic: The Significance of Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse Pale Rider
Bio: Professor of English at the University of Richmond
Reading Assignment: Pale Horse Rider by Katherine Anne Porter

Elizabeth Outka Q&A

Robert Sampson, Chris Patterson, and Susan Marquis Q&A

Full Q&A with Speakers