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Listen to Weatherhead Center authors present their global books in a café-style setting. A panel of Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates will each give a seven-minute “speed talk” about their recent or forthcoming book, launching us into compelling issues from around the world, featuring stories and research on nuclear disasters, climate transitions, and refugee education, to name a few themes represented in this event. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.
Speakers
Frank Dobbin, Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center. Chair; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Carrie Elkins, Professor of History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Penguin Random House, 2022)
Jeremy Friedman, Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Charles S. Maier, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (emeritus). Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Harvard University Press, forthcoming)
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. Director, REACH; Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022)
Dustin Tingley, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Climate Change. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming; cover artwork not yet available)
Jennifer Leaning, Senior Research Fellow, The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and Its Reverberations (SAGE Spectrum, 2022)
Contact
Michelle Nicholasen
michelle_nicholasen@wcfia.harvard.edu
