2008–2009

"Islamism Revisited" Discussant: Thomas Hegghammer, Fellow, Initiative of Religion in International Affairs, Belfer Center, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Speaker: Maha Azzam...

"Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy" Speaker: Oleg Itskhoki, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University.

"Believing in the World: Cavell and Deleuze on Cinema and Modernity" Speaker: Paola Marrati, Professor, Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University

"European Identity and Enlargement afterLisbon" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker: Dimitris Keridis, Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia...

"Social Mobility Within and Across Generations in Britain Since 1851" Speaker: Jason Long, Assistant Professor of Economics, Colby College

"Prospects for U.S.-Iranian Relations after George W. Bush" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker: Hillary Mann Leverett, Chairman, STRATEGA; former director for Iran and Persian Gulf affairs, National Security Council

"How Progressive were the Progressives? A Twenty-first Century Reappraisal of Early Twentieth Century Social Criticism and Reform" Speaker: Ellen Fitzpatrick Carpenter, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire; and Fellow, Radcliffe Institute

"The End of the Postwar, 1964-1989" The precirculated paper for this meeting will be available after November 10, and can be obtained by contacting Katherine Brady [/node/146].

"The Future of NATO: Thoughts on the Upcoming 60th Anniversary Summit" Speaker: Dick Bedford, Branch Head, Strategic Engagement and Vision, Allied Command Transformation of NATO, Norfolk, VA

"The Eyes of theBeholders: Spanish and Central European Visions of the Christ ofLimpias, 1919-1936" Abstract Starting in 1919, hundredsof thousands of pilgrims went to the parish church of Limpias, innorthern Spain, where it was said that the crucifix...