Calendar

Thursday, 10/1/2009

Ecologies of Human Flourishing
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm "A World in Crisis and the Relevance of Spiritual-Moral Principles"

Monday, 10/5/2009

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "Religion, Rationality and Violence" Discussant: J. Bryan Hehir Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public...

Project on Justice, Welfare & Economics Lecture
4:00 pm "The Intellectuals' Search for Power in an Age of Disaggregation: American Social Thought, 1975-2000"

Tuesday, 10/6/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Nicaragua: The Lost Revolution"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series: Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies "Prospects for Japan's Revival: DPJ, Economic Policy, and Company...

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Israel and Palestine:  Making Connections Across a Deep Historical Divide"

Wednesday, 10/7/2009

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries"

Thursday, 10/8/2009

South Asia without Borders
4:00 pm "Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: A Comparative Economic Assessment of the Rise of China and India"  

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Obama Administration and the Middle East Peace Process" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.  

Friday, 10/9/2009

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm "Dalit Politics after the 2009 Elections: Reflections on the BSP"

South Asia without Borders
4:00 pm "Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: A Comparative Economic Assessment of the Rise of China and India"  

Tuesday, 10/13/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Urban Crime in Brazil"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series: Globalization and Governance "Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives" Co-sponsored by the...

Wednesday, 10/14/2009

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models"

Harvard International and Global History Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "A Nation-Building People: American Efforts at International Control without Empire, and the Consequences"  Comment: ...

Thursday, 10/15/2009

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Prospects of Iran-U.S. Relations in Ahmadinejad's Second Term" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Friday, 10/16/2009

Civil Conflict Workshop
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm "Is Military Assistance Destabilizing?  Restraint, Deterrence, and the Onset of Armed Conflict"

Monday, 10/19/2009

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm Please note that this seminar meeting has been canceled, and will be rescheduled in the spring semester.

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Winners' History: Exhibiting the Group of Seven" Please read Lynda Jessup's bio.

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Introduction to ‘Western Impact and Turkey’: A Historical, Theoretical and Conceptual Framework"   Co-sponsored by the...

Tuesday, 10/20/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America: a Strategic Model and Test"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "The Wrestler's Body: Sumo in Japan and the World" Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Wednesday, 10/21/2009

Ethics and International Affairs Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Torture, Obama, and Us"

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models"

Center for History and Economics Seminar
4:15 pm “Sojourners, Settlers, Citizens: Indians and Chinese in Colonial Malaya”   Co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative.

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "The First Wave of Modernization (Kemalism)" Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard...

Thursday, 10/22/2009

Challenges of the 21st Century: European and American Perspectives Series
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm "Trade Policy in Crisis- Problem or Solution?"   Please note: this event is open to graduate students only.

Friday, 10/23/2009

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands"

Tuesday, 10/27/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Latino Politics Across the Atlantic? The Political Preferences and Attachments of Latin American Immigrants and Their Organizations in...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series: Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies "The Well-Being of Single Mothers in Japan: Do Living Arrangements...

Wednesday, 10/28/2009

Fellows Program Special Seminar
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Engaging with Non State Armed Groups in a Peace Process – Lessons Learned"

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Institutions, Public Debt and Foreign Finance"

Ecologies of Human Flourishing
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm "Cities, Climate Change, and Christianity: Religion and Sustainable Urbanism"

Thursday, 10/29/2009

Fellows Program Special Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East – An Assessment" (A light lunch will be served from noon.)

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Goldstone Fact-Finding Mission to Gaza: A Participant's Perspective on the Process, Analyses, Findings and Questions" Co-sponsored by...

CANCELED: Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
4:30 pm This seminar meeting has been canceled.

Friday, 10/30/2009

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History"