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2019 Apr 25

CANCELLED: Middle East Seminar

4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
Please note: This event has been cancelled.

"The End of Politics: Egypt Under Sisi"

Speaker:

Denis J. Sullivan, Director, Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (a Carnegie Corporation Project). Professor of Political Science & International Affairs; Co-Director, Middle East Center, Northeastern University.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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2019 Apr 24

Solar Geoengineering Seminar Series

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Room 429
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Speaker:

Ray Pierrehumbert, Halley Professor of Physics, University of Oxford.

Contact:

Amy Chang
acchang@seas.harvard.edu

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2019 Apr 24

Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Seminar

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Please note the change in location.

"Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency"

Speaker:

Martha Bailey, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Contact:

Ana Inoa
ainoa@fas.harvard.edu

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2019 Apr 23

Weatherhead Research Cluster on Regions in a Multipolar World Lecture

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
CGIS South Building,1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
"Regions: The Geographer`s Point of View"

Speakers:

Tamar Herzog, Faculty Associate. Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs; Professor, Department of History; Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Jacobo Garcia Alvarez, Professor of Human Geography, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.

Contact:

Ana Inoa
ainoa@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Timothy J. Colton, Co-Chair, Canada Program...
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2019 Apr 23

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
"Insider Out: Foreign-Born Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan, Sweden, and the United States"

Speaker:

Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of Missouri.

Moderator:

Mary Brinton, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu
2019 Apr 23

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Studies

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S030
"The Political Origins of Mexico’s Corruption"

Speaker:

Viridiana Rios, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Steven Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Contact:

Jillian Scales
jscales@fas.harvard.edu

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2019 Apr 22

International Economics Seminar

4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location:
Sloan Building, 50 Memorial Drive, E-52
TBA

Speaker:

Ben Hyman, Applied Microeconomist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. Joint with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Cynthia Gomez
Cgomez@fas.harvard.edu
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2019 Apr 22

Politics and Social Change Workshop

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050
"Collective Protest and Elite Colleges: The U.S. Anti-War Movement in the 1960s"

Speaker:

Michael Biggs, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Oxford University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

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2019 Apr 22

Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

3:45pm to 5:45pm
Location:
Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library
"Pathways to Modernity? The Rise of Technical Assistance Missions and the Early Days of the Digital Age in India, 1950s to 1970s"

Speaker:

Michael Homberg, Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations; Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Cologne.

Commentator:

Sugata Bose, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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2019 Apr 22

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050
"Materializing Time: The Techno-Scientific Transformation of Olive Agriculture in Israel/Palestine"

Speaker:

Natalia Gutkowski, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Porter School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Moderator:

Tito Carvalho, Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

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

Contact:

Tito Carvalho
tito_carvalho@hks.harvard.edu

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