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The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the...

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The Friday Morning Seminar, as it is widely known, has been meeting every year since 1984, when it was launched as the foundational seminar for both a postdoctoral fellowship program in culture, psychiatry, and mental health as well as the predoctoral program in medical anthropology. Since that time, the seminar has brought together an interdisciplinary group of social scientists and clinicians, including faculty, fellows, students, and visiting scholars from across the University and the teaching hospitals, and universities...

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The Seminar in Economic History is an interdisciplinary offering of the Department of Economics. In continuous operation for about seventy-five years, the Harvard Economic History Seminar has become a key forum for economic historians across divisions and departments as well as throughout the greater Boston area, serving as a lively and deeply informative seminar for those interested in long-term economic change, economic growth, and development. Papers and updated schedules are available for participants before each meeting...

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The Seminar in Economic Development (Economics 3105) is a weekly lecture series organized jointly by economists at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT...

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This seminar functions as a forum for lectures and intellectual exchanges on cultural politics across disciplines and national or historical boundaries. The main focus of the seminar is on cultural politics across nations in the era of globalization and on the use of culture as a soft power strategy in international relations. Synchronic as well as diachronic explorations of current debates on the tensions between hegemonizing and marginal, local, or minor cultural discourses are presented and commented on by policy makers...

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Following a years-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Politics and Social Change Workshop (PSC) returns in a moment where the global interconnectedness of political actors and the importance of their political decisions have perhaps never been clearer.  

This seminar explores the study of politics and society in transnational and comparative perspective. How do nationalist ideologies gain power in an interconnected society? Why do certain political narratives succeed in some countries while failing...

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The seminar serves as a forum for discussing new research in the field of comparative politics. The series meets three to four times per semester (in coordination with the Comparative Politics Workshop) and features presentations of ongoing research by visiting speakers and Harvard faculty working in political science and related fields. The seminar features methodologically diverse presentations on political developments in many regions: Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. Professors...

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The Canada Seminar, chaired by the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, examines Canadian social, economic, cultural, and political issues in their domestic and international dimensions. Presentations are made by public figures, scholars, artists, and experts in various fields to provide Harvard faculty and students, and the broader community, a look at Canadian scholarly and public life. The seminar seeks to enhance the understanding of one of the United States' closest allies and largest...