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Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies > 2010-2011 Seminar Schedule

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Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: October 6, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"Therapeutic Powers: Germans, Indians, and Visions of the Secret World Economy, 1880-1945"

Kris Manjapra
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Tufts University.

"Deportation as a Technique of Government: West Germany after the 1972 Munich Attack"

Quinn Slobodian
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College.

Food will be served. Please RSVP to: deepakln@MIT.edu

Speakers
Manjapra, Kris
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Tufts University.
Slobodian, Quinn
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College.
Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: November 2, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S050
This is open to the public.

"Globalization and Tax Protest in Rich Democracies"

Isaac Martin
Associate Professor, University of California at San Diego.


"Dominican Hometown Associations and their Development Impacts"

Deepak Lamba-Nieves
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Food will be served. Please RSVP to: deepakln@MIT.edu

 

Speakers
Martin, Isaac
Associate Professor, University of California at San Diego.
Lamba-Nieves, Deepak
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: December 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K354
This is open to the public.

"World Heritage in the Parliament of Things: With Professor Latour on a Visit to Dresden"

Peter Probst
Associate Professor of Art & Art History , Tufts University.

 

"Redevelopmentality at the Edge: Negotiated Geographies of Europeanness in Buenos Aires and Istanbul"

Ryan Centner
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.

Speakers
Probst, Peter
Associate Professor of Art & Art History , Tufts University.
Centner, Ryan
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.
Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: February 8, 2011
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"John Singer Sargent's Transnational Mobilities"

Paul Fisher
Associate Professor, English Department, Wellesley College. 

"Winslow Homer: The Most Strictly National Painter America has Produced"

Erica Hirshler
Croll Senior Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts. 

 

Food will be served. Please RSVP to: deepakln@MIT.edu

 

Speakers
Fisher, Paul
Associate Professor, English Department, Wellesley College.
Hirshler, Erica
Croll Senior Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts.
Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop Special Event
Date: March 3, 2011
Time: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Weil Town Hall
This is open to the public.

"Bronzes and Broadcasts: How Museums and the Media Reach Global Audiences"

This activity, hosted by the Transnational Studies Initiative, the Weatherhead Center, the Hauser Center, the Harvard Museums and the Office for the Arts at Harvard, will feature two panels discussions.

Panel I - The Media
3:00–4:30 p.m.

Panelists:
Robin Young, Host of Here and Now, WBUR.
Philippa Thomas, correspondent and anchor, BBC World News. Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.
Jennifer Eccleston, correspondent, CNN, Rome. Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.

Discussant:
Jim Bildner, Chair, Innovative Capital, Kresge Foundation, and Fellow, Hauser Center, Harvard University.


Panel II - Museums
4:35–6:00 p.m.

Panelists:
Helen Rees Leahy, Director, Centre for Museology, University of Manchester, UK.
Dan L. Monroe, Executive Director and CEO, Peabody Essex Museum.
Teresa A. Carbone, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum.

Discussant:
Peggy Levitt, Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College. Co-director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School.

Moderator/Chair
Bildner, Jim
Chair, Innovative Capital, Kresge Foundation, and Fellow, Hauser Center, Harvard University.
Levitt, Peggy
Associate. Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School; Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.
Speakers
Young, Robin
Host of Here and Now, WBUR.
Thomas, Philippa
Correspondent and anchor, BBC World News. Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.
Eccleston, Jennifer
Correspondent, CNN, Rome. Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.
Leahy, Helen Rees
Director, Centre for Museology, University of Manchester, UK.
Monroe, Dan L.
Executive Director and CEO, Peabody Essex Museum.
Carbone, Teresa A.
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: March 7, 2011
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"Building without Borders: Architectural Intersections of the Medieval Mediterranean"

Lara G. Tohme
Assistant Professor of Art, Knafel Assistant Professor of Humanities, Wellesley College.

 

"Interpellating Citizen-Consumers: Disjunctive Orders in a West African Marketplace"

Nina Sylvanus
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University.

Speakers
Tohme, Lara G.
Assistant Professor of Art, Knafel Assistant Professor of Humanities, Wellesley College.
Sylvanus, Nina
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University.
Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: April 14, 2011
Time: 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Weil Hall (Ground Floor, Belfer Building)
This is open to the public.

"Atlas Versus the Cherry Tree: Museums, the Nation, and the World"

This panel activity will focus on analyzing how cutting-edge museums around the world are coping with immigration and globalization. If museums in the past were about creating national citizens, in this global world, to what extent do they now see themselves as creating global citizens too? What is it about how museums are funded, organized, and administered that makes them more or less outward-looking? How do art and ethnographic museums do this differently? What is it about the history and culture of particular cities and regions that helps explain their stance?

Discussant:
Thomas W. Lentz
Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums.


Co-sponsored by the Transnational Studies Initiative (TSI), the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard.
Moderator/Chair
Levitt, Peggy
Associate. Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School; Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.
Speakers
Kanatani, Kim
Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Cotter, Suzanne
Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Sandahl, Jette
Director, Københavns Museum/Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hirano, Irene
President, U.S. Japan Council. Former President and Founding CEO, Japanese American National Museum. Former Chair, American Associations of Museums.