Calendar

Wednesday, 2/1/2012

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Financial Regulation, Financial Globalization, and the Synchronization of Economic Activity"

Undergraduate Thesis Research Workshop
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm "How to Write a Successful Grant Proposal for Summer Research"   Undergraduates are invited to a thesis workshop given by Steven B....

Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Turkey's Relations With Iran Under the Justice and Development Party"

Thursday, 2/2/2012

Panel Discussion: Canada Program and Harvard Law School
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Are Law Schools in Crisis? The New York Times Editorial and its Discontents A panel discussion with Alfred C. Aman, Jr., Professor of Law, Indiana...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on International Relations of East Asia   "After Kim Jong Il: The Korean Peninsula and East Asian Security" ...

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Struggle for Democracy in Syria and Its Impact on the Middle East" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Friday, 2/3/2012

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Mortality from Smallpox: The 1780s Epidemic in the Hudson Bay Region"

Monday, 2/6/2012

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "The Many Transitions Facing the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba: Membership, Practice, Pastoral Work, Church-State, and Political Regime " ...

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "The Science and Politics of Insite: Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site"

Special Event
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm "Sound The Horn: Symposium on the Famine in the Horn of Africa" Introduced by President Drew Faust and Professor Paul Farmer; with talks...

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
6:00 pm "Ecology Without the Present"

Tuesday, 2/7/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes” Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan "Do Nuclear Power Plants Benefit Japan's Local Communities?" Co-sponsored by the Edwin O....

Africa Research Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Can We Realize the Promise of All Children Reading? A Conceptual Framework for Literacy Intervention in Action"

Wednesday, 2/8/2012

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms"

Center for History and Economics Seminar
4:15 pm "A Life Transformed"

Thursday, 2/9/2012

Weatherhead Center Annual Undergraduate Associates' Thesis Conference
12:00 pm - 5:15 pm The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference, will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The...

Friday, 2/10/2012

Weatherhead Center Annual Undergraduate Associates' Thesis Conference
9:00 am - 5:00 pm The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference, will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The...

Workshop in History, Culture, and Society
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Lost in Translation: The Qualification of Expertise in US Courts"

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Was Mechanization De-Skilling?"

Saturday, 2/11/2012

Weatherhead Center Annual Undergraduate Associates' Thesis Conference
9:00 am - 12:00 pm The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference, will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The...

Monday, 2/13/2012

Religion and Politics Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm "Has the Islamic Republic Secularized? Religion-State Relations and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Contemporary Iran" ...

Canada Program Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "How Finance Went Wrong, and How to Fixt It—Some Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives"   Co-sponsored by the Labor and Worklife Program,...

Tuesday, 2/14/2012

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "World Regions in Turmoil: Globalization, Asia, and Europe" Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; Program on...

Study Group on the Future of the European Union
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm "The Future of the Euro" Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Wednesday, 2/15/2012

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Organizing the Global Value Chain"

Harvard International and Global History Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Why States No Longer Declare War"   Comment: Danny Orbach Graduate Student, Department of History, Harvard University.

Thursday, 2/16/2012

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "India's Foreign Policy in a Challenging Middle East" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Sailing Backwards on Mexico's 'Iron River of Guns:' The Political Economy of the Arms Trade in the 19th and 21st Centuries"

Friday, 2/17/2012

Political Violence Workshop
9:00 am - 10:30 am "Terrorists of a Feather: Ideology, Agency, and Control in State-Sponsored Terror"

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Education and Military Rivalry"

Tuesday, 2/21/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Success and Failure in Latin America"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on Globalization and Governance   "Joining the Club: Accession to the GATT/WTO"   Co-sponsored by the Institute...

Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Mediating Women:  Producing Indian Television, Repositioning the Self on Transnational Terrain" Deborah Matzner Assistant Professor of...

Wednesday, 2/22/2012

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms-of-Trade Manipulation"

Friday, 2/24/2012

Program on Transatlantic Relations Conference
9:00 am - 4:30 pm "Friendship in International Relations: Conceptions and Practice" Co-sponsored by the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Program on...

Workshop in History, Culture, and Society
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Explaining the Rise of Complex Societies in Human History: A Cultural Evolution Approach"

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Heights and Economic Welfare: Evidence from the 1890 Cherokee Census"

Monday, 2/27/2012

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm "Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self in the Nuclear Age: Merle Tuve's Cold War"   RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu if you plan to...

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Pakistan and the US:  Ships Passing in the Night"

Tuesday, 2/28/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Cuba's Post-Revolutionary Regime and Market-Socialism"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan   "Kizuna: New Forms of Social Capital in Disaster Japan"

Wednesday, 2/29/2012

Transatlantic Relations Seminar
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm "British Defense and Security Policy: The Impact of the Strategic Defense and Security Review"  

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation"