Special Event

2022 Apr 14

POSTPONED: Special Event | Houghton Library Hofer Lecture with Lynsey Addario

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Online Only

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO TUESDAY, APRIL 19 FROM 12:00–1:15

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

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Speaker:

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

Image of poster with headshot of Lynsey Addario and event informationPulitzer 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.

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2022 Apr 09

Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference (Hybrid)

9:00am to 11:45am

Location: 

Hybrid Event

"Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference"

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9:00-10:15 AM | Panel 5: Political Thought in Action: Resistance, Deception, Subversion

  • "Fear of a Black Commune: Luiz Gama on Resistance as Civic Virtue"
    Niklas PlaetzerUniversity of Chicago.
  • "Phạm Quỳnh’s Cultural Resistance"
    Prof. Kevin PhamGettysburg College.
  • "Narrowing Responsibility: Colombia’s Violence Commissions and the Politics of Human Rights, 1958-2011"
    Anna WherryYale Law School.
  • Chair and Discussant: Prof. Doris SommerHarvard University.
  • Moderator: Sama MammadovaHarvard University.

10:30-11:45 AM | Panel 6: New Methods in Political Theory: Beyond & Between Analytic and Critical Approaches

  • "Towards Learning to Let Go – Diagnosing the Psychopathology of Settler-colonial Canada"
    Ritwik BhattacharjeeUniversity of British Columbia.
  • "The Blind Spot in Biopolitics: Michel Foucault and the Power to Kill Life Itself"
    Daniel ZimmerCornell University.
  • "Towards A Postcolonial Global Justice: The Egalitarian Face of Decolonization"
    Dr. Shuk Ying ChanOxford University.
  • Chair and discussant:  Dr. Bo-Mi ChoiHarvard University.
  • Moderator: Bulelani JiliHarvard University.

Contact:

Hansong Li
hansongli@fas.harvard.edu

AGPT Organizing Committee
globalpoliticalthought@g.harvard.edu

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2022 Apr 08

Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference (Hybrid)

9:00am to 6:00pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

"Association for Global Political Thought Inaugural Conference"

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9:00-10:30 AM | Panel 1: The Bounds of the Political: Between the National and the International

  • "Ottoman Internationalism"
    Omer TopalPrinceton University.
  • "Negative Identity Interdependence in the Triadic Nationalist Narratives: Contradictory Korean and Chinese Historical Memories in Transformation Process to Nation-States"
    Sheng Zhang 張晟, Harvard University.
  • "Between Anarchy and Empire: Lionel Robbins and the Colonial Dilemmas of International (Neo-)Liberalism"
    Chris ChambersYale University.
  • Chair and Discussant: Dr. Amsale (Amy) AlemuHarvard University.
  • Moderator: Théophile DeslauriersPrinceton University.

10:45 AM-12:00 PM | Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought

  • "Going Global with Democracy: Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and the International Politics of Popular Independence"
    Prof. Eileen HuntUniversity of Notre Dame.
  • "Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on Kingship: A Microhistory of Seventeenth-Century Globalization and Political Thought"
    Prof. Shoufu Yin, 殷守甫, University of British Columbia.
  • "'Americae sive Novi Orbis: The Spanish Indies and the Language of Contested Global Geography"
    Sergio LeosHarvard University.
  • Chair and Discussant: Prof. James Hankins, Harvard University.
  • Moderator: Yidi Wu 吳一笛, Boston University.

12:00-1:15 PM | Lunch

AGPT Spring 2022 seminar, Prof. Durba Mitra"Third World Women and the Rise of the Status of Women Report" will be streamed during lunch break.

1:30-2:45 PM | Panel 3: Social Critique in Global Contexts

  • "Representative Government as Anti-Imperialism: Edward Carpenter’s Radical Critique of Victorian Civilization"
    Théophile DeslauriersPrinceton University.
  • "From Fascism to populism, between socialism and liberalism: Norberto Bobbio’s Democratic Thought (early 1940s-early 1990s)"
    David RagazzoniColumbia University.
  • "Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory"
    Simon Luo 駱斯航, Indiana University.
  • Chair and Discussant: Dr. Eric FabriUniversité libre de Bruxelles.
  • Moderator: Josh Freedman 費哲明Harvard University.

3:00-4:15 PM | Panel 4: Anticolonialism: Networks, Diaspora, and Transnational Comparisons

  • "Defining Colonialism: Debates Between Nehru, Sukarno and Kotelawala (1954-1961)"
    Sandeep BhardwajAshoka University.
  • "Diasporic Vanguardism and Reverend Abraham Rihbany’s Anticolonial Thought c.1917-1922"
    Yasmin DualehCambridge University.
  • "History, Democracy, Socialism: Revisiting the “Untimely Continuities” in Nyerere and Cabral"
    David SuellUniversity of Michigan.
  • Chair and Discussant: Dr. Mohammed Marzuq AbubakariUniversity of Applied Management, Ghana.
  • Moderator: Ying Wu 吳瀛Shanghai Jiaotong University.

4:30-6:00 PM | Keynote Speech by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Conversation, Q&A

  • "The 'Decolonial Moment' in Contemporary Global Political Thought"

Contact:

Hansong Li
hansongli@fas.harvard.edu

AGPT Organizing Committee
globalpoliticalthought@g.harvard.edu

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2022 Mar 09

The War in Ukraine: A Community Conversation (In Person)

6:00pm to 7:45pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

"The War in Ukraine: A Community Conversation"

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Speakers:

Mariana Budjeryn, Research Asosciate, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School.

Emily Channell-Justice, Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program.

Oleh Kotsyuba, Manager of Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute.

Thomas Remington, Visiting Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Oxana Shevel, Associate Profeossor of Political Science, Tufts University.

Moderator:

Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

This event is organized by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Please note: This event will take place in person with limited capacity. It is open only to Harvard Affiliates who are enrolled in the Covid-19 testing program at Harvard. Mask wearing will be enforced.

2022 Mar 31

Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

Book Launch: "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia"

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Speakers:

Victor Seow, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Megan A. Black, Associate Professor of History, MIT.

Conevery Bolton Valencius, Professor of History, Boston College.

Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Faculty Associate. Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Interim Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Faculty Director for the Humanities, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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2021 Dec 08

WCFIA Book Launch (Zoom)

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions with Coeditor Annette Idler

This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar.

Fifty years after US President Nixon declared the war on drugs, this “war” has failed to significantly reduce the scale or impact of illicit drug production and trafficking. Yet consensus on the way forward is missing from the international policy debate: some states have introduced national reforms; others continue to champion militarized approaches. We are at a crossroads. How to tackle the complex causes and consequences that this war is intended to address? Challenging conventional thinking in defense and security sectors, Transforming the War on Drugs constitutes the first comprehensive and systematic effort to theoretically, conceptually, and empirically investigate the effects of the international drug control regime’s war on drugs. The volume unpacks the dynamics behind illicit drug markets, the fluid motivations of “warriors,” and the evolving consequences for “victims” of this war—the lines between warriors and victims often being blurred.... Read more about WCFIA Book Launch (Zoom)

2021 Nov 04

5 Years Since the Signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Online Only

"5 Years Since the Signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP"

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Speakers:

Juana Alicia RuizCoordinator of the Association of Women Weaving Dreams and Flavors of Mampujan.

Juan Gabriel VásquezNovel Prize of the IV Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial 2021.

Moderators:

Juana Garcia DuqueAssociate Professor of the Business School, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; DRCLAS Visiting Scholar 2019-2021.

Andres MoyaAssociate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar 2020-2022.

Contact:

Erin Goodman
egoodman@wcfia.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Weatherhead Scholars Program; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School; Universidad de Los Andes; Harvard Columbian Student Society.

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2021 Oct 28

5 Years Since the Signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Online Only

"5 Years Since the Signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP"

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Speakers:

Angélica Rettberg, Professor of the Department of Political Science, Universidad de los Andes.

Sergio Jaramillo, High Commissioner for Peace (2012-2017).

Juana Alicia Ruiz, Coordinator of the Association of Women Weaving Dreams and Flavors of Mampujan.

Juan Gabriel VásquezNovel Prize of the IV Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial 2021.

Pastor Alape, former member of FARC-EP.

Father Francisco De Roux (TBC), President of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition.

Moderators:

Juana Garcia Duque, Associate Professor of the Business School, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; DRCLAS Visiting Scholar 2019-2021.

Andres Moya, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar 2020-2022.

Contact:

Erin Goodman
egoodman@wcfia.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Weatherhead Scholars Program; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School; Universidad de Los Andes; Harvard Columbian Student Society.

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2021 Nov 12

Commemorating the Greek War of Independence at Harvard (Hybrid)

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

Event graphic with Greek flag atop ruins

"Commemorating the Greek War of Independence at Harvard"

Register online to attend this in-person event. For those who cannot attend in person, the event will be livestreamed through Zoom. Both methods require separate registration. The event will be recorded.  

Introductory Remarks:

Melani Cammett, Center Director; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Greetings from representatives of Boston's Consular corps:

Arnaud Mentré, Consul General of France in Boston.

Peter Abbott, British Consul General in Boston.

Hans Charles, Consul General of Haiti in Boston.

João Pedro de Vasconcelos Fins do Lago, Consul General of Portugal in Boston.

Stratos Efthymiou, Consul General of Greece in Boston.

Keynote: "200 Years of Modern Greece – History Shows the Path to the Future"

Ambassador Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, President of "Greece 2021" Committee; Former Vice-Chair of HKS Dean's Council; member of the Dean's Council Leadership Circle.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

This event is cosponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies, and the Consulate General of Greece in Boston.

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2021 Oct 21

Special Event (Zoom)

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Online Only

Event graphic with photo of empty plane with door open on runway

"After the Airlift: The Future of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East"

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From the Biden administration's approach of cooperative diplomacy—and broader disengagement—in the Middle East to the fallout of Trump's "America First" attitude, US foreign policy in the region continues on a complex path ahead. Several international journalists join Harvard scholars for an insightful discussion on American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Speakers:

Joshua Kertzer, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on International Security. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Natalie Colbert, Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Clarissa Ward, Chief International Correspondent, CNN.

Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor In Chief at The National.

Nabih Bulos, Middle East Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.

Chair:

Melani Cammett, Center Director; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvad.edu

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2021 Oct 08

Book Launch: Mental Health, Legal Capacity and Human Rights (Zoom)

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

Online Only

"Mental Health, Legal Capacity and Human Rights"

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Speakers:

Michael SteinFaculty Associate. Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School.

Faraaz MahomedVisiting Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Vikram PatelFaculty Associate. The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Charlene Sunkel, CEO, Global Mental Health Peer Network.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvad.edu

Cosponsored by Global Mental Health @ Harvard; Harvard Law School Project on Disability; Global Mental Health Peer Network; Center for Applied Legal Studies, Wits University; Cambridge University Press.

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