Special Event | International Development: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Date and Time

October 4, 2018
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"International Development: An Interdisciplinary Conversation"

Poster image and conference details

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Panel will be streamed on Facebook Live. If you cannot attend or watch it live, it will be available in the video section of our Facebook page afterward.

This event will bring together leading experts on the politics, economics, and history of international development to share the most exciting developments in their respective fields and to discuss how scholars of development in different disciplines can better talk to each other, and why they should. It will mark the publication of the new book, The Development Century: A Global History. Edited by Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela, this volume offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world.

Speakers:

Melani Cammett, Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Faculty Associate. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

David Engerman, Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University.

Stephen Macekura, Assistant Professor of History, Department of International Studies, Indiana University.

Erez Manela, Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Dani Rodrik, Faculty Associate. Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

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