Calendar

Monday, 10/1/2012

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm “Distributing Genetic Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Access in Western Europe” Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to...

Canada Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “Reporting on America: A Religious Experience”

Tuesday, 10/2/2012

Symposium on the Path to Global Sustainability
9:00 am - 10:00 am The symposium is by invitation only. Seating is limited, and registration will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis. To confirm your...

Political Violence Workshop
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “The International Sources of Intrastate Conflict: Foreign Aid Shocks, Coups, and Civil War Onset” Talk by Christopher Lucas and Daniel Yew Mao...

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Brazil without Homophobia: A Story of Two Pathways to the State” Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation. This seminar...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm “Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War” Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer...

Economic Development Workshop
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm "The Economic Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Patients in Rural South Africa"

Wednesday, 10/3/2012

International Economics Workshop (Econ 3530)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Innovation and Production in the Global Economy”

Thursday, 10/4/2012

Harvard Business School International Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm “Not Just How Much You Know: Interactional Effect of Cultural Knowledge and Metacognition on Creativity in a Global Context” Lunch will be...

Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: How Americans Learned to Oppose Atrocity Rather Than Aggression" Commentary: Sarah Sewall Lecturer in Public...

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “Reconstituting Egypt: Political, Economic, and Security Challenges” Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. ...

Friday, 10/5/2012

Workshop in Culture, History, and Society
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History”

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm “Against Determinism” Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Thursday noon the week before.

Tuesday, 10/9/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “The Politics of (Non)Enforcement: Street Vendors and Informal Redistribution in Latin American Cities” Opportunity for comments and questions...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm “Where Japan Is Headed” Co-sponsored by the WCFIA Fellows Program and the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Ash Center for Democratic...

Economic Development Workshop
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm "Factory Farming: The Impact of Agricultural Output on Local Economic Activity in India"

Study Group on the Future of the European Union
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm “What Governance for the Eurozone? Options for the December Summit of the EU” Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European...

Wednesday, 10/10/2012

Nigeria in the World
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm “Nigerian National Security Matters”  

Harvard International and Global History Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “China, the Third World, and the Global Cold War” Comment: Steffen Rimner Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow....

International Economics Workshop (Econ 3530)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming”

Thursday, 10/11/2012

Challenges of the 21st Century: European and American Perspectives
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm "Global Trade Policy and the Rush to Bilateralism" Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European...

Friday, 10/12/2012

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm “Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration”

Monday, 10/15/2012

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm “Politico-legal Proceduralism, Belief in Scientific Method, and the Elevation of Means Over Ends in Modernity” Sandwich lunches provided. RSVP by...

Tuesday, 10/16/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Race, Class, and Political Representation in Brazil” Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation. This seminar is...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm “Keeping the Streets Safe for Children: Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the US” Special Series on Common Problems of...

Economic Development Workshop
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm "Political Favoritism and Economic Growth: Evidence from India"

Wednesday, 10/17/2012

International Economics Workshop (Econ 3530)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “International Transmission through Relative Prices”

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Europe at a Crossroads: The Story of Greece and What It Reveals about Structural Problems in the Eurozone"

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Seminar
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm “Nationalism, Ottomanism, and Cosmopolitanism: The Greek Orthodox of Istanbul in the Late Ottoman Empire”

Thursday, 10/18/2012

Transatlantic Relations Seminar
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “What Future for the Transatlantic Relationship?” Co-sponsored by the Boston Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany.

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “US-Saudi Relations: More Than a Marriage of Convenience” Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. Open to the...

Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
4:10 pm - 6:00 pm "Development as a Cold War Weapon: Foreign Experts and the Rise of Indian Economists" Comment: Moshik Temkin Associate Professor of Public...

Friday, 10/19/2012

Weatherhead Initiative in Global History Workshop
9:00 am - 2:00 pm “The Global 30's: The Great Depression and Global Response” Opening Remarks: Sven Beckert Session One: Beyond Market Economies “’We are...

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm “Contested Property: The Economics of Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum South”

Monday, 10/22/2012

Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm “Straddling the US Racial Divide” Tiffany Joseph “Transnational Circuits in the Global Cultural Economy: The Case of Talent Scouts in...

Tuesday, 10/23/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Coalition Presidentialism in Brazil” Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation. This seminar is co-sponsored by the...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm “Why Electoral Integrity Matters” Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies. Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic...

Economic Development Workshop
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm "Spatial Competition among Financial Service Providers"

Wednesday, 10/24/2012

International Economics Workshop (Econ 3530)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Financial Intermediation, International Risk Sharing, and Reserve Currencies”

Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm “Improvising Turkishness: Armenian Responses to Exclusion in the New Turkey” This seminar is co-sponsored with the Center for Middle Eastern...

Friday, 10/26/2012

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm *PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.*“Charter Cities and Customs Receiverships: The Failure of American Attempts to Reform Foreign Fiscal...

Monday, 10/29/2012

Religion and Politics: Local and Global
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm *PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED*“Opportunities and Dangers in Comparing Political and Philosophical Dimensions of Religion and Public...

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm *PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED*“A Trackful Ocean: Ships' Routes on the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic” Sandwich lunches provided. RSVP...

Canada Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm *PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED*“Tecumseh Lies Here: Subversive Commemoration and the War of 1812”

Tuesday, 10/30/2012

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Venezuela's 2012 Elections: Context, Results and Implications for the Region” Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation. ...

Africa Research Seminar
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm “Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: A Talk with the Author” Jason Stearns is author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the...

Economic Development Workshop
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm "Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises"

Wednesday, 10/31/2012

International Economics Workshop (Econ 3530)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Local Currency Sovereign Risk”

Center for History and Economics Seminar
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm “Planning Against Planning: The Mont Pelerin Society and the Origins of Neoliberalism"