Harvard Seminar on History and Policy

"Resisting Tyranny: Lessons from the European 20th Century" Speaker: Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University. Contact: Elizabeth Steffen Elizabeth_Steffen@hks.harvard.edu Chair: Moshik Temkin, Faculty Associate. Associate...

"Accounting, Accountability, and the Struggle for Nation-Building" Speaker: Jacob Soll, Professor, History and Accounting, University of Southern California. Commentator: Alexander Keyssar, Faculty Associate. Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History...

"The History Manifesto" Speakers: David Armitage, Faculty Associate (on leave 2014–2015). Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University. Jo Guldi, Professor of History, Brown University. Contact: Liz Steffen Elizabeth...

"The Long Punitive Turn: The Evolving Politics of Crime in New York City" Speaker: Mason Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow, The New School. Contact: Gina Abbadessa Gina_abbadessa@hks.harvard.edu Chairs: Moshik Temkin, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of...

"Black Elites and the Politics of Respectability as Public Policy" Speaker: Frederick Harris, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University. Refreshments will be served. Contact: Gina Abbadessa Gina_abbadessa@hks.harvard.edu Chairs: Moshik Temkin...

Special Event: “What Should Foreign Policy Makers Learn (or Not) from History?” Speakers: Charles S. Maier, Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University. Stephen M. Walt, Faculty...

PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. "What Does it Mean to Lose Latin America? A Long View of US-Latin American Relations" Speaker: Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University. Chair: Candelaria Garay, Assistant Professor of Public...

“Waiting for Public Diplomacy 2.0: The Slow Digital Dawn in US Diplomacy” Comment: Archon Fung Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. Speaker: Nicholas Cull, Professor of Public Democracy, University of Southern...

Seminar Title: “What Can History Teach Us About Global Trafficking?” “Between Empire and Globalization: China's Foreign Relations and the Origins of Global Drug Control" Talk by Steffen Rimner “The First Anti-Trafficking Campaign: The Atlantic Slave Trade...

"Development as a Cold War Weapon: Foreign Experts and the Rise of Indian Economists" Comment: Moshik Temkin Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Speaker: David Engerman, Professor of History, Brandeis University.