2018-2019

Energy dependence is the leitmotif of Eurasian political economy. The concept recurs in official speeches and is often invoked to imply a threat. The higher the level of dependence on hydrocarbon imports, especially oil and natural gas, the higher the...

"Pathways to Modernity? The Rise of Technical Assistance Missions and the Early Days of the Digital Age in India, 1950s to 1970s" Speaker: Michael Homberg, Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations; Assistant...

TBD Speaker: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Contact: Andrea Chiovenda Andrea_Chiovenda@hms...

8:30am–12:15pm, CGIS South Building, Room S030 8:30–9:00 Welcome and opening remarks 9:00–10:30 Panel I: Religion and State Law Chair: John Comaroff, Harvard University. Discussant: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University. Speakers: Peter Geschiere...

Folorunso Alakija Inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Religion and Public Life in Africa Speaker: John Bryant, Retired Bishop, The African Methodist Episcopal Church. Featuring a performance by the Aeolians of Oakwood University. Contact: Ana Inoa ainoa...

"Discriminating Data" Speaker: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. Moderator: Tito Carvalho, Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School. Chair...

"Deep Historicities: Indigenous Knowledges and the Science of Deep Time" Speakers: Lee Bloch · Phil Deloria · Emma Kowal · Leah Lui-Chivizhe · Ann McGrath · Nick Patterson · Laura Rademaker · Julia Rodriguez · Nancy Shoemaker · Ben Silverstein · Dan Smail...

"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" Speaker: Francesca Trivellato, Professor, School of Historical Studies, Early Modern History, Institute for Advanced...

"Affective Scholarships, Emotional Economies, and the Coming of Age on the Streets of Java" Speaker: Thomas Stodulka, Junior Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. Co-sponsored by the Department of Global...

"Symbolic and Material Boundary Drawing through Gender and Race: The Public Discourse on Violence and Refugee Movements in Canada and Germany" Speakers: Gökce Yurdakul, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Professor of Sociology, Head of...