Calendar

Tuesday, 11/3/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "The Impact of Globalization on Family Firms"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Industrial Democracies "Rising Crime and Crime Reduction Strategies in 21st Century Japan" ...

Study Group on the Future of the European Union
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm "Germany and the EU: A Post-Election Perspective" Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies.

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
6:00 pm "Global Religion and the Post-Secular Challenge: American and European Perspectives"

Wednesday, 11/4/2009

Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm "The Puerto Rican Diaspora: A Transnational Colonial Migration" Jorge Duany Professor of Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico. Wilbur...

Harvard International and Global History Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Food, Soil, People: Geopolitics and the World Population in the Mid Twentieth Century"  Comment: Paul Cruickshank Graduate Student...

Thursday, 11/5/2009

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Assessing the Impact of 16 Years of International 'Peacebuilding' in Palestine" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Reconciling with the Taliban? Toward an Alternative Grand Strategy in Afghanistan"

Project on Justice, Welfare & Economics Lecture
4:00 pm "Provincializing Democracy: Patronage and Space on India's Southwestern Coast" Co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative.

Challenges of the 21st Century: European and American Perspectives Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "The EU’s Response to the Financial Crisis: Changes in the European Financial Landscape due to the Market Turmoil" Co-sponsored by the...

Monday, 11/9/2009

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Canadian War Museum, and the Military Identity of an Unmilitary People" Please read Norman Hillmer's bio.

Tuesday, 11/10/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "President Obama and his Foreign Policy Towards Latin America"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "The Politics of Economic Downturn in Japan and China" Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Conflict in Global Finance after the Meltdown:  Reconciling Competing Priorities"

Thursday, 11/12/2009

WCFIA Special Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World"

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Sri Lanka After the LTTE"

Friday, 11/13/2009

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Mortgage Markets in Colonial America"

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "The Economics of Badmouthing: Defamation, Racketeering and the French Financial Press before World War I"

Monday, 11/16/2009

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "American Religious Pluralism: Civic and Theological Discourse" Discussant: Barbara Kellerman James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public...

Event Postponed: Ethics and International Affairs Seminar
12:00 pm *Please note that this event has been postponed and will not take place on this date.

Center for History and Economics, the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, and the Tobin Project Seminar
4:15 pm "Kenyes:  The Return of the Master"

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
5:30 pm "From the Top: Government Sponsored Creativity"    

Tuesday, 11/17/2009

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "'Who Wants an Independent Court?' Political Competition and Judicial Autonomy in the Argentine Provinces"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series: Globalization and Governance "Getting Serious about Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto Era" Co-sponsored by the Harvard...

Wednesday, 11/18/2009

WCFIA Roundtable on World Affairs
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "Can Democracy Combat Terrorism?" (A light lunch will be available from 12:15.)

Canada Program Author Reading
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm "Guerilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations" Daryl Copeland Author.  "Branding Canada: Projecting Canada's Soft Power...

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Much Ado About Nothing: The Impact of Service Trade on American Workers"

Center for History and Economics Seminar and Workshop*
4:15 pm "Economic Inequality in the Long Run"   *Please note the change in location.

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm “Is Turkey Changing the Direction of its Foreign Policy?”

Ecologies of Human Flourishing
5:15 pm "Religious Values and Global Health"   Reservations are required. Click here: REGISTER NOW  

Thursday, 11/19/2009

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Peace through Development: Local Institution Building in Rural Afghanistan"   *Please note the change in location.

Middle East Seminar
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Protest and Paranoia in Iran"   Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.   *Please note the special time for this...

Monday, 11/23/2009

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "Muslims in the West after 9/11: Religion, Law and Politics" Discussant: Philip B. Heymann James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law...

Ethics and International Affairs Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "The Strategic Bankruptcy of the Long War"

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Obama and the Arab World: Prospects for Change in American Mideast Policy" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Tuesday, 11/24/2009

Challenges of the 21st Century: European and American Perspectives Series
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm "Is Europe a Failed Democracy? Will the Lisbon Treaty Make a Difference? And if Not, What Will?" Organized by Renée Haferkamp. Sponsored...

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "The Topography of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony"

Monday, 11/30/2009

Special Event
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Canada, The United States and Cuba: The Triangular Relation between 1959 and 1962 as seen in Cuban Diplomatic History" Co-sponsored by...