Renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont (CASBS fellow, 2002-03) discusses her new book, Seeing Others, with former CASBS director Woody Powell. The book assembles decades of Lamont’s scholarship, engaging some of contemporary society’s most elemental challenges and advancing key building blocks toward a shared human experience marked by greater inclusion, belonging, dignity, empathy, and equality.

MICHÈLE LAMONT:

Harvard University faculty page | Harvard sociology page

Personal website | Simon & Schuster page for Seeing Others

The Successful Societies project, which held its first convening at CASBS in 2003

WALTER "WOODY" POWELL

Stanford University faculty page | CASBS page 

Personal website | PACS page

Announcement of Powell as CASBS director

CASBS summer institute on Organizations and Their Effectiveness (2016-present)
 

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University

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Human Centered
Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |