This seminar will study important legal cases in the field of criminal justice alongside works of literature that appear to deal with the same issues. Focus on reading legal opinions, especially concerning: guilty minds and guilty acts, detection, evidence, confessions, punishment. Attention also to the analysis of narrative…
Adam Guren is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University. His research focuses on empirical macroeconomics, particularly as applied to the housing market. In this talk, he will discuss the foreclosure crisis, its role in the greater economy, and lessons for foreclosure policy drawing on his research and the…
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENTPresented by the Carl A. Fields Center, LGBT Center, and Women's Center, with support from the Conversations on Identity Public Programming Series, Office of the Dean of the Undergraduate Students, Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Woodrow Wilson School.
Violent epidemics of childhood infections such as measles provide a particularly clear illustration of oscillatory 'predato-prey' dynamics. We discuss limits on the predictability of these systems, both in the era before vaccination and at present, where vaccine hesitancy limits the effectiveness of vaccination programs in many…
