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Harvard College Film Festival: Q&A with David Simon


Lecture

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Harvard Art Museums will host the final day of this year’s student-run Harvard College Film Festival, which provides undergraduates across the world with an opportunity to create and submit films to be screened, judged, and awarded for creative excellence and powerful perspective. This afternoon’s program will feature a Q&A with television creator and executive producer David Simon, and will be moderated by Harvard professor Elizabeth Hinton.

David Simon is a Baltimore-based journalist, author, and television producer. A former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, he is the creator of the celebrated HBO series The Wire, which depicts the political and socioeconomic fissures in an American city. His other television credits include the NBC drama Homicide and HBO’s The Corner, Generation Kill, and Treme. His most recent project is Show Me a Hero, an HBO miniseries depicting the 1987–93 housing desegregation battle that divided Yonkers, New York. The author of two books of narrative nonfiction, Homicide and The Corner, Simon is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.

Elizabeth Hinton is assistant professor in the Department of History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th-century in the United States. Her current scholarship considers the transformation of domestic social programs and urban policing after the Civil Rights Movement. Hinton’s articles and op-eds can be found in the pages of the Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, and Time. She also co-edited The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) with the late historian Manning Marable.

The event will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level.

Free admission

Support for this program is provided by the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund.