Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics

"Jácome's Mission: Transnational Consumerism, Conservatism, and Latino History during the Cold War" Co-sponsored by the Harvard History Department. Speaker: Geraldo Cadava, Assistant Professor, Department of History & Program in Latina and Latino Studies...

"The Liberal Traditions in the Americas: Rights, Sovereignty, and the Latin American Origins of Liberal Multilateralism" Greg Grandin is the author of of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City," finalist for the Pulitzer...

"The Occupy Movement and Student Debt Refusal" Speaker: Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University.

"The Chicago Police Torture Cases, 1972–2011: Facticity, Accountability and the Struggle to Gain Justice" Speakers: Adam Green, Associate Professor of American History, University of Chicago. Flint Taylor, Founding Partner, People's Law Office.

"The Defense Budget: Where Has It Been? Where Is It Going?" A bio for the speaker can be found here. Winslow Wheeler suggests those attending his talk read "The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It." (http://dnipogo.org/labyrinth/)...

"The Fight for the Souls of Insider Traders" Speaker: Vincent Antonin Lépinay, Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"'There is that Leviathan whom thou hast made:' Rethinking Jackson's Bank War" Speaker: Scott Reynolds Nelson, Legum Professor of History, College of William and Mary.

"Our Better History: Contesting the 'Post' of 'Post-Civil Rights'" Speaker: Matthew Jacobson, Professor of American Studies & History, Yale University.

"Place is the Space: The 'hood as a Locus of Jazz History" Speaker: Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California.

"Hearing Whispers from the Well of History: Reckoning with Ottoman Slavery" Speaker: Hakan Erdem, Professor of Ottoman History, Sabanci University.