2012–2013

“Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico” Speaker: Giacomo De Giorgi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University. Chairs: Michael R. Kremer, Faculty Associate. Gates Professor of Developing...

“Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era” Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Speakers: Peter...

“A Trackful Ocean: Ships' Routes on the Eighteenth-century Atlantic” Sandwich lunches provided. RSVP by the Thursday before to sts@hks.harvard.edu. Speaker: John Dixon, PhD Candidate, History of American Civilization, Harvard University. Chair: Sheila...

“The Limits of Human Rights Advocacy: Syria and the Blowback of the Arab Spring” Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker: Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East & North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch.

“What History Can Tell Us About Copyright Wars" Speaker: Peter Baldwin, Professor, Department of History, University of California

“Optimal Bank Regulation and Fiscal Capacity” Speaker: Vania Stavrakeva, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Chairs: Pol Antràs, Faculty Associate. Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Richard N...

“Conflict and Beyond: A Deeper Look into Telling African Stories” Finbarr O’Reilly is a Reuters photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. He began his journalism career as a writer and has covered Africa for the past ten years. He turned to photography in...

“Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia” Speaker: Eliana La Ferrara, Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics, Bocconi University. Chairs: Michael R...

“Japan Shrinks: Demography, Economic Growth, and National Security” Speaker: Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute. Chair: Mary C. Brinton, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute...

Seminar Title: “What Can History Teach Us About Global Trafficking?” “Between Empire and Globalization: China's Foreign Relations and the Origins of Global Drug Control" Talk by Steffen Rimner “The First Anti-Trafficking Campaign: The Atlantic Slave Trade...