Calendar

Monday, 2/4/2013

CANCELED: Religion and Politics: Local and Global
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. “The Faith Factor: Religion and the 2012 Election” Discussant: Sidney Verba If you plan to attend,...

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm "Horrible Bosses: Analyzing Workplace Dysfunction"  

Canada Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Moving Back and Moving Forward: Is Canada in Your Future?"

Undergraduate Thesis Grant Writing Workshop
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm “Writing a Successful Grant Proposal for Summer Research” Harvard undergraduates are invited to a thesis workshop given by Steven B....

Tuesday, 2/5/2013

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm TBA Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation.   This seminar is co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm “3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan” Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

DRCLAS Andes Initiative Event
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Longing for the State: Moral Economy, Legal Subjects and the War on Drugs” Speaker: Diana Bocarejo, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá Comments...

Wednesday, 2/6/2013

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm "Product Introductions, Currency Areas, and the Real Exchange Rate"  

Science and Democracy Lecture with Paul Nurse
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm "Making Science Work: Science and Democracy Lecture with Sir Paul Nurse" Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment,...

Thursday, 2/7/2013

Weatherhead Center Annual Undergraduate Associates' Thesis Conference
12:15 pm - 5:30 pm The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference, will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The...

The Africa Caucus at the Kennedy School of Government
4:10 pm - 5:40 pm "International Security and Geopolitics in Light of the Crisis in the Sahel" Co-sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government and the...

Friday, 2/8/2013

SCHEDULE CHANGE: Weatherhead Center Annual Undergraduate Associates' Thesis Conference
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Please note: We have canceled the afternoon sessions of today's conference. Please visit the WCFIA homepage for further details.

CANCELED: Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. "How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistributive Policies and in...

Saturday, 2/9/2013

CANCELED: Weatherhead Center Annual Undergraduate Associates' Thesis Conference
9:00 am - 11:30 am Please note: We have canceled the today's session of the conference. Please visit the WCFIA homepage for further details.

Monday, 2/11/2013

Religion and Politics: Local and Global
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm “Islamism, Humiliation, and the Mobilization of Masculinity” Discussant: Noah Feldman If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan.

Canada Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm "Financial Stability in One Country?"

Tuesday, 2/12/2013

Political Violence Workshop
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Breaking the Link between Climate Change and Civil Conflict” Abstract: The debate within the natural science community over the occurrence and...

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Contemporary Cuba: A Weaker State, a Weaker Regime, and now a Weaker Government” Opportunity for comments and questions to follow...

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm "Divine Detection: Crime and the Metaphysics of Disorder"

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm “Japan's Growth Strategy and the World Economy”

Wednesday, 2/13/2013

Africa Research Seminar
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm "Humanitarian Early Warning: Progress and Complexity" Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Committee on African...

Harvard International and Global History Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “The Many Worlds That Unifying Time Created, 1880-1930” Comment: Heidi Tworek Lecturer; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, History...

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence”

The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
4:10 pm - 5:30 pm “Waiting for Public Diplomacy 2.0: The Slow Digital Dawn in US Diplomacy” Comment: Archon Fung Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and...

Thursday, 2/14/2013

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “Track II Diplomacy: Past Achievements and Future Prospects”

Friday, 2/15/2013

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Did Warfare Create the English State?"

Tuesday, 2/19/2013

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “War in the Fourth World: Nicaragua’s Contras and Hemispheric Indigenous Politics” Opportunity for comments and questions to follow...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "The Return of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: Political Leadership and Foreign Policy"

Wednesday, 2/20/2013

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “The Effect of Trade and Migration on Income”

Turkey in the Modern World
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm "Turkish Foreign Policy: Between Brussels and Shanghai" This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard...

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm "The Politics of Islamic Cultures in the Wake of the Arab Spring"

Nigeria in the World
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm “Nigeria: The Challenge of Development”  

Thursday, 2/21/2013

Asia and the New History of Energy Workshop
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm For a full schedule, visit the workshop website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy/Asia_History_Energy/index.html Co-sponsored with...

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “The Arab Spring Considered and Reconsidered” Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Comparative Politics Speaker Series
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism" Co-sponsored by the Department of Government.

History and Economics Seminar
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Global Energy History: The Last 10,000 Years"

Friday, 2/22/2013

Asia and the New History of Energy Workshop
8:30 am - 3:45 pm For a full schedule, visit the workshop website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy/Asia_History_Energy/index.html Co-sponsored with...

Economic History Workshop
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Trade, Contract Failures and Ethnic Assimilation: Cochineal in Mexico"

Study Group on the Future of the European Union
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm "Changing Welfare States and the Eurocrisis" This event is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Monday, 2/25/2013

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm “Shoddy Heap: Textile Waste Processing and Alien Flora” Sandwich lunches will be provided to those who RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by the...

Canada Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Tecumseh Lies Here: Subversive Commemoration for the War of 1812"

Tuesday, 2/26/2013

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “Mapping the Interactions between Nation States and their Challengers in Contemporary Latin America” Opportunity for comments and questions to...

Political Violence Workshop
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm “A Model of Conflict with both Rational and Boundedly Rational Actors” Abstract: In this paper I present an evolutionary model of state failure...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm "The Geopolitics of the Shale Gas Revolution"

Wednesday, 2/27/2013

International Economics Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect”

History and Economics Seminar
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom" Book signing to follow Please note the new location

Thursday, 2/28/2013

Middle East Seminar
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “Gaza and the Future of Palestine: A Changing Paradigm” Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies