Dr. Carl Hart Keynote at University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr. Carl Hart to Speak at UTEP

Keynote Address at the Vida Conference 2014

More information: vida.utep.edu/vida-conference-2014

I first heard of Dr. Carl Hart in the documentary the House I Live In, a film we recommended this Spring in The Beat Within course, in addition to the required viewing of Slavery by Another Name.  Dr. Carl Hart will be giving the Keynote Address at the UTEP Vida Conference 2014 (Vulnerability to Drug Abuse Among Hispanics, Bridging Science and Society, May 29-30, 2014).  The event will take place at the Tomas Rivera Conference Center (UTEP) in El Paso, Texas and will also feature New Mexico State University Associate Professor (CJ), Dr. Robert Duran on panel session #5: Qualitative Inquiries into Drug Use, Drug Markets, Gang Behavior and Successful Reentry (Gangs on the United States Side of the Border: A Story of Contradictions).  

Dr. Hart's keynote address is titled, "On Drugs: Keeping It Real".  On the conference agenda it states that the "presentation will describe how Dr. Hart came from housing projects in Miami to become Columbia University's first tenure African American professor in the sciences.  Dr. Hart will go beyond the hype and misinformation perpetuated by the antidrug movement to explain the real effects of drugs and drug policy."  Dr. Hart is Co-Director and Professor of Psychology at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University and a nationally recognized author of High Price.

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