2013–2014

2014 Feb 14

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, Room 1550

"Philosophia and Anthropologia (or Affect and Everyday Life): Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran"

Speaker:

Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Seth Donal Hannah
seth_hannah@hms.harvard.edu 
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2014 Feb 11

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

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

"Losing Containment: Filming in the Nuclear Waste Zone"

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

Speakers:

Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor; Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University.

Robb Moss, Professor and Chair of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Contact:

William Nehring 
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2014 Feb 10

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K354

"The Meaning of Mandela in Today's South Africa"

Speaker:

Greg Marinovich, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from South Africa. Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. 

Contact:

Donna Hicks
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2014 Feb 12

Political Violence Workshop

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S450

"The Domestic and International Politics of Sanctions"

Speaker:

Christian von Soest, Thyssen Fellow, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Harvard University. Senior Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Berlin.

Lunch will be served.

Contact:

Kai Thaler
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2014 Feb 04

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

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

"China, Japan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute"

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

Speakers:

M. Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center.

Contact:

William Nehring
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2014 Feb 07

History and Economics Seminar

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, The Thompson Room (110)

"Beyond Capital: The Climate Crisis as a Challenge to Social Thought"

Speaker:

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for the Environment and the Mahindra Humanities Center.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

2014 Feb 11

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250

"Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development"

Speaker:

Ben Ross Schneider, Director, MIT Brazil Program; Ford International Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Contact:

Sophie Jampel
sjampel@fas.harvard.edu
(617) 496-1605... Read more about Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics

2014 Feb 04

Tuesday Seminar in Latin American Politics

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250

“A Reform Too Far: Political Value vs. Economic Necessity”

Speaker:

Carlos Rufín, Associate Professor of Management; Chair of the Strategy and International Business Department, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University.

Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Contact:

Sophie Jampel
sjampel@fas.harvard.edu
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2014 Mar 03

Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Room 100F

"Science Education Across Mass Ave: PSSC and the History of (Harvard) Project Physics, 1961-1970"

Speaker:

David Meshoulam, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by the Wednesday before.

Contact:

Erik Aarden
erik_aarden@hks.harvard.edu

Shana Rabinowich
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2014 Feb 24

Canada Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

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

"The (Revolving) Door of No Return: Memory, Migration, and Magical Thinking"

Speaker:

Zetta Elliott, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-3671

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2014 Feb 24

Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Room 100F

"The Body is Like an Automobile Chassis: Visualizing Control at the Henry Ford Hospital"

Speaker:

Jana Cephas, Instructor in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by the Wednesday before.

Contact:

Erik Aarden
erik_aarden@hks.harvard.edu

Shana Rabinowich
shana_rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu

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2014 Feb 19

Middle East Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

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

"Arab Crony Capitalism in an International Context"

Speaker:

Ishac Diwan, Lecturer in Public Policy; Director for Africa and the Middle East, the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Contact:

Marina Ivanova
mivanova@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9006

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