#  Special Event | International Book Blitz (In Person) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 3, 2023** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Fisher Family Commons, 1st Floor**  



 

 



 



 

 Listen to Weatherhead Center authors present their global books in a café-style setting. **A panel of Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates will each give a seven-minute “speed talk” about their recent or forthcoming book**, launching us into compelling issues from around the world, featuring stories and research on nuclear disasters, climate transitions, and refugee education, to name a few themes represented in this event. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.

##  Speakers

 **Frank Dobbin**, Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center. Chair; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.  
[*Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674276611) *(Harvard University Press, 2022)*

 **Carrie Elkins**, Professor of History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.  
[*Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/45877/legacy-of-violence-by-caroline-elkins/) *(Penguin Random House, 2022)*

 **Jeremy Friedman**, Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.  
*[Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244313) (Harvard University Press, 2022)*

 **Charles S. Maier**, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (emeritus). Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.  
[*The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674290143) (*Harvard University Press, forthcoming)*

 **Sarah Dryden-Peterson**, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. Director, REACH; Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.  
[*Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674267992) *(Harvard University Press, 2022)*

 **Serhii Plokhy**, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.  
[*Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters*](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324021049) *(W. W. Norton & Company, 2022)*

 **Dustin Tingley**, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Climate Change. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.  
*[Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse](https://www.uncertainfuturesbook.com/) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming; cover artwork not yet available)*

 **Jennifer Leaning**, Senior Research Fellow, The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.   
*[The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and Its Reverberations](https://spectrum.sagepub.in/book/the-1947-partition-of-British-India-Jennifer-Leaning-9789354792908/20) (SAGE Spectrum, 2022)*

##  Contact

 **Michelle Nicholasen**  
[michelle\_nicholasen@wcfia.harvard.edu](mailto:michelle_nicholasen@wcfia.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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