All panels will be held in the Belfer Case Study Room, S-020, on the lower floor of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), located at 1730 Cambridge Street. (Map)

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

12:15 p.m Welcoming Remarks

James Robinson, Acting Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Professor of Government

12:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m. Cities in a Transnational World: Comparative Perspectives on Immigration and Urban Life

Chair: Jocelyn Viterna, Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Social Studies, Department of Sociology; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

Sarah Burack (History), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Riot in the Hill: Afro-Caribbean Identity & Transnational Politics in London, 1958–1965”

Elizabeth Nichols (History and Literature), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Creating an Espace Propre in La Goutte d’Or: Creativity, Plurality and Agency in a Multicultural Parisian Neighborhood”

Elizabeth Powers (Sociology), a Canada Undergraduate Fellow: “How Can Government Policy Affect Support Networks? South Asian Immigrant Women in Toronto and Boston”

Melissa Tran (Sociology), a Samuels Family Research Fellow: “Transnationalism Online: How a Social Networking Website Connects Mexican Migrants”

Fifteen Minute Break: refreshments will be available.

3:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m. Power and the Public: Public Health and Welfare in Developing Economies

Chair: Vincenzo Bollettino, Director of Programs and Administration at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Neagheen Homaifar (Social Studies), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Microfinance Mothers: A Generational Transmission of Gender Perceptions and Cooperation”

Sarah Hinkfuss (Economics, and Environmental Science and Public Policy), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Efficiency and Equity in the Informal Water Market: A Case Study of Ayn al-Basha, Jordan”

Asli Bashir (History and Literature), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Analyzing the Image of the Girl-child during Uganda's HIV/AIDS Crisis: When the discourse of Protection Imperils”

Lydia Lo (Social Studies), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Helping Spirit: Organizational Context and Humanitarianism among Malawian NGO Workers”

Friday, February 19, 2010

8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast served outside of S-020.

9:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Trying Times: Local Justice, Global Dynamics

Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Director, University Committee on Human Rights Studies

Trevor Bakker (Social Studies), a Rogers Family Research Fellow: “Transmitting International Justice: The Hybrid Model of the Special Court for Sierra Leone”

Joanna Naples-Mitchell (Social Studies), a Simmons Family Research Fellow: “Experiment in Universality: The ‘Special Procedures’ Mechanisms of the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Challenge of Human Rights Implementation in Sovereign States”

Emily Hogin (Social Studies), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Counterterrorism in the Classroom: How Competition Between Teachers and Police Officers Shaped the United Kingdom’s ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ Policy”

HyunJin Kim (Social Studies), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Tuvalu and climate change: Disappearing Islands and the Obligation to Help—Reassessing the International Community’s Obligation to help small island-states with Climate Change Impacts”

11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.: Lunch provided outside S-020.

12:45 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Unity and Disunity: The Durability of Democracies and their Political Institutions

Chair: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Department of Government

Diane de Gramont (Social Studies): “Leaving Lima Behind? The Victory and Evolution of Regional Movements in Peru”

Dimitrije Ruzic (Economics), a Samuels Family Research Fellow: “The European Union and the Eurozone: Intra-industry Trade and Economic Convergence”

Elisha Rivera (Government): “Understanding Policy-Making: An Examination of the Family-based Immigration Policies of the United States and Australia”

Lillian Khoury (Government), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “The Rule of Law in the context of the French Mandate of Syria (1920–1946)”

Break: Refreshments will be available.

4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Protest and its Discontents: Civil Strife in a Changing World

Chair: Janet Lewis, Ph.D. candidate in Government, Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Associate

Nishchal Basnyat (Government), a Rogers Family Research Fellow: “Chasing Utopia: Maoism, Monarchy and Democracy in Nepal”

Megan Shutzer (Social Studies), a Rogers Family Research Fellow: “Operation Return Home: The Resettlement of Kenya’s Internally Displaced”

Priya Gupta (Anthropology), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “Environmental Protest and Identity Construction in Argentina and Uruguay”

Saturday, February 20, 2010

9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast served outside of S-020.

9:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. The Cold War and the Postwar: Perspectives on Diplomatic and International History

Chair: Ian Jared Miller, Director, Undergraduate Student Programs, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Assistant Professor, Department of History

Eugene Kim (History), a Program on Transatlantic Relations Undergraduate Fellow: “A Deafening Silence: American and British Responses to the Warsaw Uprising, August–October 1944”

Rob King (History): “Academic Scribblers: Reports and the Making of American Strategy on Latin America, 1948–1980”

María Carla Chicuén (History), a Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow: “The puzzling development of Spain and Great Britain’s favorable diplomatic and commercial relations with Cuba from 1958 to 1964”

Kevin Zhou (Government), a Samuels Family Research Fellow: “Two Faces of History: The Evolution of Sino-Japanese Relations”

Closing remarks

Ian Jared Miller