#  International Book Blitz 2024 

 



## April 22, 2024 / 4:30pm–6:00pm

**For Weatherhead affiliates only.**



 

Celebrate the end of the academic year at our third International Book Blitz. At this popular event, **open to all Weatherhead affiliates**, a panel of Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates will each give a seven-minute “speed talk” about their recent book, launching us into compelling issues from around the world. A party for affiliates will follow the presentations.

### Speakers

**Christina Davis**, Director, Program on US-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University. [*Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organization*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247793/discriminatory-clubs)*s* (Princeton University Press, 2023)

**Ya-Wen Lei**, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. [*The Guilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691212838/the-gilded-cage) (Princeton University Press, 2023)

**Michèle Lamont**, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. [*Seeing Others—and How It Can Heal a Divided World*](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seeing-Others/Michele-Lamont/9781982153786) (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

**Merilee Grindle**, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, Harvard Kennedy School. [*In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278332) (Harvard University Press, 2023)

**Meg Rithmire**, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School. [*Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia*](https://academic.oup.com/book/46818) (Oxford University Press, 2023)

**Sugata Bose**, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University. [*Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674423497) (Harvard University Press, 2024)



 

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