Past Events

2020 Mar 31

CANCELLED: Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
PLEASE NOTE: This 3/31 event has been cancelled.

"The Diffusion of Technological Change and Energy Efficiency: The Case of Televisions"

Speaker:

Tomomichi Amano, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Marketing Unit, Harvard Business School.

Moderator:

Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu
2020 Mar 31

Political Violence Workshop (via Zoom)

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Online Only
"Laws in Conflict: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Post-War Chechnya"

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Speaker:

Egor Lazarev, Academy Scholar. Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Contact:

Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez
mmelend@g.harvard.edu

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.
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2020 Mar 31

POSTPONED: Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Studies

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
"Urban Securitization in the Name of Human Rights"

PLEASE NOTE: This event has been postponed.

Speaker:

Lindsay Mayka, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Colby College.

Moderator:

Frances Hagopian, Faculty Associate (on leave fall 2019). Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jillian Scales
jscales@fas.harvard.edu

The Tuesday Seminar Series is a bring your own brown bag lunch series. Please feel free to enjoy your lunch at the lecture, drinks will be provided.
2020 Mar 27

CANCELLED: Seminar in Economic History

1:15pm to 2:45pm
Location:
Littauer M-16, North Yard
PLEASE NOTE: This seminar has been cancelled for the remainder of the semester.

“Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries”

Speaker:

Leah Platt Boustan, Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Contact:

Liz Thach

elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu
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2020 Mar 24

CANCELLED: Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
PLEASE NOTE: This 3/24 event has been cancelled.

“A Living Laboratory: Japan in American Social Thought"

Speaker:

Amy Borovoy, Professor of East Asian Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.

Moderator:

Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu
2020 Mar 23

CANCELLED: Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Conference Room 125
PLEASE NOTE: This 3/23 event has been cancelled.

"Was Japan's Industrialization Different? Labour Intensity and the Developmental State, 1868-1937"

Speaker:

Peer Vries, Research Fellow, International Institute of Social History, Netherlands.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Charlotte Ciavarella, PhD Candidate in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University.

Faculty Commentator:

TBA

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
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2020 Mar 23

Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) Seminar (via Zoom)

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Online Only
"'They are taking the land from us': The Defeat of Radical Reconstruction in Rural Cuba, 1898-1912"

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Speaker:

Samantha Payne, Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

TBA

Faculty Commentator:

TBA

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

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2020 Mar 13

CANCELLED: Friday Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

10:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent developments with COVID-19 this seminar is cancelled.

All upcoming Friday Morning Seminars in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health for this semester have also been cancelled. We hope to reschedule our guests for the Fall semester.

"Mindfulness and Hasidic Modernism: Towards a Contemplative Ethnography"

Speaker:

Don Seeman, Associate Professor, Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

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2020 Mar 12

CANCELLED: Middle East Seminar

4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
PLEASE NOTE: This 3/12 event has been cancelled.

"Peace in the Era of Post-Truth: The Logic of Fragmenting Palestine"

Amira Hass, Journalist and correspondent for the Occupied Territories, Haaretz. Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow, Religious Literacy Project, Harvard Divinity School.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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2020 Mar 11

POSTPONED: Shi'ism & Global Affairs Seminar

5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050)
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent developments with COVID-19 this seminar is postponed.

"The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards"

Speaker:

Dr. Annie Tracy Samuel, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Chair:

Dr. Payam Mohseni, Project Director, Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University; Lecturer, Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School.

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"The Diffusion of Technological Change and Energy Efficiency: The Case of Televisions"

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"Laws in Conflict: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Post-War Chechnya"

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"Urban Securitization in the Name of Human Rights"

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“Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries”

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“A Living Laboratory: Japan in American Social Thought"

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"Was Japan's Industrialization Different? Labour Intensity and the Developmental State, 1868-1937"

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"'They are taking the land from us': The Defeat of Radical Reconstruction in Rural Cuba, 1898-1912"

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"Mindfulness and Hasidic Modernism: Towards a Contemplative Ethnography"

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"Peace in the Era of Post-Truth: The Logic of Fragmenting Palestine"

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