"Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height and Inequality in Human History"

Speaker:

Frances Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, Yale University.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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“The Russet Brogan: Plantation Slavery and New England’s Industrial Revolution”

Speaker:

Seth Rockman, Associate Professor of History, Brown University.

Discussants:

Ethan Lasser, Head, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums.

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art, Harvard Art Museums.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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“The Political Legacy of American Slavery”

Speakers:

Matthew Blackwell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Maya Sen, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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“A Republic of Prophets: Culture Wars and Civil Religion from Winthrop to Obama”

Speaker:

Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University.

Discussant:

Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Department of History, Harvard University; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Law School; Harvard College Professor.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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"The Rise of China in the Global Art Market"

Speaker:

Larissa Buchholz, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows.

Discussant:

Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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“Measuring Cultural Durability: Conceptual Clarification, a Method and an Empirical Test”

Speaker:

Stephen Vaisey, Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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“Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern Worlds"

Speaker:

Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy, Columbia University.

Contact:

Fangsheng Zhu
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"From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe"

Speaker:

Francesca Trivellato, Frederick W Hilles Professor of Sociology, Department of History, Yale University.

Discussant:

Dan Smail, Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Carly Knight
crknight@fas.harvard.edu
281-682-4063

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"Chinese Cultural Variation in Pricing: Perpetuation of Maoist Inequities under a Market Regime"

Speaker:

Vince Feng, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

"Belonging Before Believing: Bloc Recruitment and Group Ethos in the Making of Chinese Communism"

Speaker:

Xiaohong Xu, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Yale University.

Contact:

Carly Knight
crknight@fas.harvard.edu

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"The Consolations of Discipline"

Speaker:

Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University.

Discussant:

Bruce Western, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Carly Knight
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"Before Method: Analytic Incursions into Historiographies"

Speaker:

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.

Commentator:

Diane Davis, Professor of Urbanism and Development, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center.

Contact:

Carly Knight
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