Workshop on Culture, History, and Society

"The Body as Barrier to the Sacred: Durkheim's Homo Duplex at Wagner's Bayreuth Festival" Speaker: Philip Smith, Professor of Sociology, Yale University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

"Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in America and Brazil, 1804-1898" Speaker: Andrew Keefe, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard...

"Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in the American South and Brazil, 1804-1898" Speaker: Andrew Keefe, Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. JD/PhD Candidate...

"The Business of Advocacy: Companies and NGOs in the Fight against 'Modern Slavery'” Speaker: Stephanie Limoncelli, Associate Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate...

"The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration" Speaker: Rina Agarwala, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the...

"On Historical Progress" Speaker: Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard...

"Human Rights Enculturation and Conceptualizations of Abuse" Speaker: Jeffrey Swindle, College Fellow in Sociology, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department...

"The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue" Speaker: Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate...

"Risk Roulette: How Lawyers Make Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools Matter in Criminal Court" Speaker: Cierra Robson, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate...

"Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" Speaker: Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of...