2010–2011

"Honor the Mick" Book signing and talk by Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, for her book The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood. Refreshments will be served. Speaker: Jane...

"Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Age of Finance Capitalism" For more information, visit the websites of Carola Frydman and Eric Hilt. Speakers: Eric Hilt, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College Carola Frydman...

"The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis" Speaker: Mark Wright, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California at Los Angeles.

"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...

"The Afghan Challenge: What Will it Take for Them to Trust Their Own Security Forces" Speakers: Paul W. Bricker, Fellow. Colonel, U.S. Army. Abdul Waheed Wafa, Reporter, New York Times, Kabul, Afghanistan. Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.

Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies "Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality" Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Speakers: Frances Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of...

"Should You Write a Thesis?: The Decision to Write a Thesis and Your Thesis Topic Selection" Speaker: Beth A. Simmons, Weatherhead Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Clarence Dillon Professor of International...

"Revolutionaries, Terrorists, Spoilers, Presidents: The Political Effectiveness of Palestinian Armed Groups, 1964-2008" Speaker: Peter Krause, Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Ph.D. candidate...

"Cash Transfers in Africa: Early Evidence of Poverty Reduction and Human Capital Development" Speaker: Candace Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Boston University.

"Using Durable Consumption Risk to Explain Commodities Returns" Speaker: Deepa Dhume, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.