2014–2015

Co-sponsored by Showa Women’s University; Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; and Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Contact: William Nehring wnehring@wcfia.harvard.edu...

“Carbon and its Discontents: The Futures of Energy History” Speakers: Lisa M. Brady, Professor, College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, Boise State University. Rania Ghosn, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts...

"Corruption: The Unaddressed Elephant on the Global Stage" Speakers: William English, Research Director, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Research Fellow, Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. Vladimir Radomirovic, Investigative Journalist...

Graduate Student Presentations "A Global History of Bretton Woods: China, Mexico, and America’s Postwar Order” Speaker: Manuel Rincon-Cruz, PhD Candidate in Regional Studies, East Asia, Harvard University. Commentator: Marcelo Ferraro, WIGH Global Fellow...

"Countering the Scourge: Smallpox in China and India" Speaker: Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Harvard University. Contact...

"Cities, Technologies and Political Imaginaries: From the Networked Metropolis to the Smart Cities" Speaker: Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lunch is provided...

"Indian Labour Migration in Global History Perspective: 'Coolie' and 'Kangany' Migration Compared 1840-1940" Speaker: Prabhu Mohapatra, Assistant Professor of History, University of Delhi, India. Commentator: Claudia Bernardi, Fellow, Weatherhead...

"Fertility Decline and Missing Women" Speaker: Seema Jayachandran, Associate Professor of Economics, Northwestern University. Co-sponsored by the Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: Jeanne Winner Jwinner@fas.harvard.edu...

"US-Cuba Relations: Today and Tomorrow" Speaker: Jorge I. Domínguez, Chairman, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Department of...

"Building States, Undermining Public Order? Lessons from the UN Stabilization Mission to Haiti (2004-2014)" Speaker: Gaëlle Rivard Piché, Fulbright Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs...