"Opening Up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries"

Join former WSP visiting scholar Adam Dean to discuss his recent book, Opening Up by Cracking Down, Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries (Cambridge University Press, September 2022).

Speaker:

Adam Dean, Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University.

Moderator:

Ted Gilman, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

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"Indigenous diplomacy: participation and the agenda of the Indigenous Peoples at the UN"

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Speaker:

Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otvalo diplomat, Ecuador.

Commentators:

Pamela Klassen, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

Amy E. Chalán, Kichwa Saraguro student, Harvard College.

Moderator:

Américo Mendoza–Mori, Lecturer in Latinx Studies; Faculty Director, Latinx Studies Working Group, Harvard University.

Presented in collaboration with the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR), Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Canada Program at the WCFIA, Indigenous Solidarity Collective at Harvard Divinity School, and the The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Registration is required for this event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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"GRiSTS 2022 | Re-centering the Social: Technoscience in Crisis Times"

For conference details, including how to register, please visit the conference website.

The GRiSTS conference invites students from any discipline to discuss the relations of S&T with policy, politics and governance in modern societies. Through sharing their work, students from universities across the Northeast connect to a growing network of STS research and mentoring in areas of shared intellectual interest and practical concern. Fostering these connections will allow young researchers to better appreciate their own academic contributions and professional roles, as well as build inclusive, yet critical, understandings of S&T in global society.

The Conference for Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) is coordinated by students in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard with help from students across the GRiSTS network.

GRiSTS is institutionally supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact:

gristsconference@gmail.com

"GRiSTS 2022 | Re-centering the Social: Technoscience in Crisis Times"

For conference details, including how to register, please visit the conference website.

The GRiSTS conference invites students from any discipline to discuss the relations of S&T with policy, politics and governance in modern societies. Through sharing their work, students from universities across the Northeast connect to a growing network of STS research and mentoring in areas of shared intellectual interest and practical concern. Fostering these connections will allow young researchers to better appreciate their own academic contributions and professional roles, as well as build inclusive, yet critical, understandings of S&T in global society.

The Conference for Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) is coordinated by students in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard with help from students across the GRiSTS network.

GRiSTS is institutionally supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact:

gristsconference@gmail.com

"GRiSTS 2022 | Re-centering the Social: Technoscience in Crisis Times"

For conference details, including how to register, please visit the conference website.

The GRiSTS conference invites students from any discipline to discuss the relations of S&T with policy, politics and governance in modern societies. Through sharing their work, students from universities across the Northeast connect to a growing network of STS research and mentoring in areas of shared intellectual interest and practical concern. Fostering these connections will allow young researchers to better appreciate their own academic contributions and professional roles, as well as build inclusive, yet critical, understandings of S&T in global society.

The Conference for Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) is coordinated by students in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard with help from students across the GRiSTS network.

GRiSTS is institutionally supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact:

gristsconference@gmail.com

This event is free and open to the Harvard community and guests. No tickets required; seating is on first available basis. This event is part of ...

"Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective | Harvard-Tufts Conference on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition"

For conference details, including how to register for the various events that take place over the three days, please visit the conference website. 

When South Asia won freedom from British colonial rule seventy-five years ago, some of the finest and most far-sighted ideas in the realm of...

"Concert with Zeb Bangash"

For event details, including how to register, please visit the conference website. 

Originally from Lahore, Zeb Bangash is acknowledged as one of the most distinctive and authentic voices to originate not just from her home country of Pakistan, but also the region. With her soulful voice and her distinctive balance between tradition and innovation, Zeb has carved a name for herself in both the local and global music scenes. She is one of the first women in Pakistan to gain public recognition as a songwriter/composer.

Cosponsored by President Lawrence S. Bacow of Harvard University and Professor Anthony P. Monaco of Tufts University; Asia Center of Harvard University; and the Center of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University.

Contact:

Jorge Espada
jorge_espada@harvard.edu... Read more about Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective (In-Person)

"Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective | Harvard-Tufts Conference on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition"

For conference details, including how to register for the various events that take place over the three days, please visit the conference website. 

When South Asia won freedom from British colonial rule seventy-five years ago, some of the finest and most far-sighted ideas in the realm of anticolonial thought lost out in the struggle for power at the helm of postcolonial states. Those political and economic ideas have acquired renewed global salience in the twenty-first century at the vortex of the complex and symbiotic relationship between the forces of democracy and authoritarianism. This conference engages in a creative process of historical retrieval of visions for substantive democracy and federal union during the struggle for freedom that remained unrealized during the postcolonial transition. Can a reengagement with those ideas enable us to better face the challenges of authoritarianism in the present and provide the basis for a more equitable and democratic global order? 

Cosponsored by the Asia Center of Harvard University and the Center of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective (In-Person)

"Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective | Harvard-Tufts Conference on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition"

For conference details, including how to register for the various events that take place over the three days, please visit the conference website. 

When South Asia won freedom from British colonial rule seventy-five years ago, some of the finest and most far-sighted ideas in the realm of anticolonial thought lost out in the struggle for power at the helm of postcolonial states. Those political and economic ideas have acquired renewed global salience in the twenty-first century at the vortex of the complex and symbiotic relationship between the forces of democracy and authoritarianism. This conference engages in a creative process of historical retrieval of visions for substantive democracy and federal union during the struggle for freedom that remained unrealized during the postcolonial transition. Can a reengagement with those ideas enable us to better face the challenges of authoritarianism in the present and provide the basis for a more equitable and democratic global order? 

Cosponsored by the Asia Center of Harvard University and the Center of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
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Herbert C. Kelman 
March 18, 1927 – March 1, 2022

Please join us to celebrate the incredible life of Herbert Kelman. For those unable to attend in person, the event will be live streamed on...

“The Future of Sanctions: Law & Diplomacy”

Organized by Weatherhead Scholars Program Fellow (2021–2022) and Consul General Arnaud Mentré and cosponsored by the Consulate of France in Boston and Georgetown Law.

Over the last 30 years, the use of economic sanctions has become one of the most significant developments in the foreign policy of the United States and, more recently, of the European Union and its Member States. Sanctions have been used in a variety of international crises, with growing political and economic impact, as...

“The Future of Sanctions: Law & Diplomacy”

Organized by Weatherhead Scholars Program Fellow (2021–2022) and Consul General Arnaud Mentré and cosponsored by the Consulate of France in Boston and Georgetown Law.

Over the last 30 years, the use of economic sanctions has become one of the most significant developments in the foreign policy of the United States and, more recently, of the European Union and its Member States. Sanctions have been used in a variety of international crises, with growing political and economic impact, as...

"Of Love & War: Stories of Tragedy & Resilience from Across the World"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Lynsey Addario, photojournalist; author, Of Love & War.

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario will give Houghton Library's virtual Spring 2022 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book. Known for her disarming and compelling photographs that personalize even the most remote corners of the world, her unflinching eye captures humane tales from some of the most difficult places on earth. “I am drawn to people with hardship and humanitarian issues,” she says. “But I am a storyteller, and I look to convey information.”

In her lecture, "Of Love and War: Stories of Tragedy and Resilience from Across the World," Addario will present a stunning and personally-curated selection of her work from conflict zones across the world, revealing both intimacy with her subjects and major threats to human rights. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and life in Afghanistan under the Taliban to the daily reality of women in the Middle East, Addario’s stories and images illustrate the immense human capacity for tragedy and suffering, but also for hope and resilience. The lecture will be recorded.

This event is co-sponsored by Houghton Library, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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"Women in the Taliban’s Afghanistan"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speakers:

Shaharzad Akbar, Academy Fellow in Human Rights at the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs, Chatham House.

Pashtana Durrani, Visiting Fellow at the Wellesley Centers for Women.

Heather Barr, Associate Director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.

Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).

Moderator:

Fara Abbas, Fellow, Negotiation Task Force.

This event is co-sponsored by Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard. 

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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