Calendar

Tuesday, 11/1/2011

Transatlantic Relations Seminar
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "NATO and Modern Security: An Alliance for the 21st Century"

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "The Bog and the Beast: Museums, the Nation, and the World"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan "Nuclear Power After Fukushima" Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese ...

Wednesday, 11/2/2011

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies"

Center for History and Economics Seminar
4:15 pm "Poor Economics"

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Building Bridges to Building Fences: Turkey's Transforming Migration Policy"

Thursday, 11/3/2011

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Can Jewish and Arab Citizens of Israel Live as Equals?" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Ethics, Economics, and International Relations
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Wear and Tear of the War on Terror on American Foreign Policy: The Military Perspective

Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm "Writing the History of Terrorism"

Friday, 11/4/2011

Workshop in History, Culture, and Society
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Historicizing Agency"

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm "War-making and State Building: Pakistan in Comparative Perspective" This seminar is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown...

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188–1789"

Monday, 11/7/2011

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "Christianity & Politics: The Duties and the Dangers" Discussant: Bryan Hehir Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Parker...

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Hockey as Mirror: Finding a National Identity in a Game"

Tuesday, 11/8/2011

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Including Outsiders: Social Policy Expansion in Latin America"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on International Relations of East Asia "The Rise of China and India: Challenges for Japanese Foreign Policy" Discussant: ...

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Beyond Diplomacy:  Embedding Peace and Conflict Transformation Processes in Nepal and Lebanon"

Wednesday, 11/9/2011

WCFIA Fellows Special Seminar
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm “No Place Like Home: What it Means to be Stateless in the 21st Century”

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy:  Is There a Case for Carbon Tariffs?"

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Where is Turkey Heading?"

Thursday, 11/10/2011

Special Event
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "Countdown to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development" Light lunch and refreshments will be served ...

Monday, 11/14/2011

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Election 2011: The Death Knell for Canada's Laurentian Consensus"

Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics Seminar: Political Economy of War Speaker Series
4:15 pm "The Defense Budget: Where Has It Been? Where Is It Going?" A bio for the speaker can be found here. Winslow Wheeler suggests those...

Tuesday, 11/15/2011

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Big Business, Democracy and the Politics of Competition in Mexico"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "Covering Japan and Asia in The New York Times" Co-sponsored by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University.

Study Group on the Future of the European Union
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm "The EU's Military Operations and Multilateral Intervention"   Discussant: Jolyon Howorth Visiting Professor of Political Science...

Wednesday, 11/16/2011

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Fiscal Devaluations"

Joint Center for History and Economics/China Medical Board Seminar
4:00 pm "The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China"

Harvard International and Global History Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Imagined America of William McKendree Gwin: Individual Ambition and the Uneven Path of American Expansion" Comment: Shaun Nichols...

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Deciphering Denial: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence Against Armenians, 1789–2009"

Thursday, 11/17/2011

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "People Power: Civic Activism in Yemen" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Center for History and Economics and the Harvard Center for the Environment Seminar
4:15 pm "Life, Land and Limits in the 'Organic Economy,' c. 1670–1840"

Friday, 11/18/2011

Political Violence Workshop
9:00 am - 10:30 am "Martyrdom or Irrelevance?  The Effect of Usama Bin Laden's Death on his Intellectual Legacy"

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Structural-Demographic Causes of Political Instability: A Model"

Monday, 11/21/2011

Canada Seminar - Special Event in Honor of Professor Paul Weiler
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "How Finance Went Wrong, and How to Fix It—Some Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives" A seminar to mark the publishing of a Festschrift...

WCFIA Special Event
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Inside the Free the Hikers Campaign: A Harvard Graduate Student's Struggle to Free his Brother from Arbitrary Detention in Iran"  

Monday, 11/28/2011

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The North American Idea"

Tuesday, 11/29/2011

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Understanding Argentina's 2011 Presidential Election"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "Elders and the Ethics of Suicide in Japan" Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of...

Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Neither State nor Civil Society?  Conceptualizing the Place of Development INGOs in Transnational Mobilizations" Jocelyn Viterna Faculty...

Joint session of the Future of the European Union Study Group and the Transatlantic Relations Seminar
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm "The Interaction of the EU's Common Foreign Security Policy and National Foreign Policy: The Case of Cooperation with the US"   ...

Wednesday, 11/30/2011

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Complex World"

Undergraduate Thesis Research Workshop
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm "Should You Write a Thesis?: The Decision to Write a Thesis and Your Thesis Topic Selection"

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Turkey and its Neighborhood Foreign Policy"