Cultural and Humanitarian Agents

"The Informal Economy: A Challenge to the Social Contract" Speaker: Salvador del Solar, Former Minister of Culture, Peru. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center. Contact: Alen Agaronov alen.agaronov@mail.harvard.edu or Jahnvi Singh jahnvi.singh08...

"Peace Making By All Means" Speaker: Saliya Weerakoon, Executive Education Student, Harvard Kennedy School. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center. This event is part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, celebrated from October 20–27, 2018. Contact: Alen...

"A(n)esthetics and the Analgesic Museum" Speaker: Ian Koebner, Director of Integrative Pain Management; Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis. Co-sponsored by Mahindra Humanities Center...

"When The Symbolic Becomes Really Real" Speakers: Sam Durant, Artist; Faculty, California Institute of the Arts. Álvaro Santos, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School. Contact: Polly Lauer pwlauer@gmail.com Chair: Doris Sommer, Faculty Associate; Chair...

"Narrative, Creativity and Resilience in War-Affected Populations" Speaker: Theresa Betancourt, Salem Professor of Global Practice, Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College; Director, Research Program on Children and Adversity, Harvard T.H. Chan...

"Reclaiming the Public Domain through Massive Cultural Capability Building" Speaker: Pier Luigi Sacco , Professor of Cultural Economics, International University of Languages and Media, Milan; Senior Researcher, metaLAB (at) Harvard; Visiting Scholar...

"Affirmative Re-Action" Speaker: Jay Critchley, Conceptual and Multi-Media Artist and Activist. Contact: Polly Lauer pwlauer@gmail.com Chairs: Doris Sommer, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Afro-Latin American Studies. Ira Jewell...

"Women Health Providers in Rural Kenya: Dialogue between Araceli Alonso and Jennifer Leaning" Speakers: Araceli Alonso, Associate Faculty, Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Washington...