2008–2009

"Learning the Wealth of Nations" Speaker: Francisco Buera, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.

"The Diasporic Circuit of Culture: 'Global' Hinduism in India's Transnational Professional Class" Smitha Radhakrishnan's work focuses on the emergence of a new transnational Indian class of information technology (IT) professionals, and explores the...

"History's Illegibles: States, International Agencies, andthe Indeterminacy of Identity in Venezia Giulia" Precirculated papers can be obtained by contacting Katherine Brady [/node/146] two weeks prior to this meeting. Speaker: Pamela Ballinger, Associate...

"The Challenges Facing Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the Impact on National Security" (Light lunch available from noon.)

"Economic Crises and Health: Risk or Opportunity?" Speakers: Lincoln C. Chen, President, China Medical Board Keizo Takemi, Professor, Research Institute of Science and Technology, Tokai University, and former Member, House of Councillors Charles Rosenberg...

"The Real Global Food Crisis, and America's Weak Response" Robert Paarlberg serves as senior consultant to a bipartisan study group on international agricultural development assistance policy, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and...

"Yankee Capitalist Go Home! Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan" Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Speaker: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University.

"Insurgency to Implementation: Mexico's Popular Health Insurance Program, 2001-2006" Speaker: Jason Lakin, Research Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health

"Transatlantic Relations after the US Presidential Elections: A British Perspective" Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies. Speaker: Lord William Wallace, Lord Wallace of Saltaire; Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group and Foreign Policy...

"Native Sovereignty and Identity" Roger L. Nichols, Professor of History, University of Arizona "Contemporary Indigenous Issues in Quebec: Collective Memory and the Colonial Legacy" Denys Delage, Professor of Sociology, Laval University "Truth and...