From the Fairbank Center Calendar:

Tasting Chocolate at the Kangxi Court:
Medicine, Politics, and Global Trade Flows in the 17th Century
Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz

Cosponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Organized by James Robson, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,...

Harvard Book Store welcomes Visiting Professor of Government and History at Harvard University MARY ELISE SAROTTE for a discussion of her new book, The Collapse:...

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
Partha Chatterjee on "International Law and the Pedagogy of Violence"

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A conversation  about the arts, citizenship, and the state.

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto, acuarela de Miguel Ángel Fernández

Felipe Fernández-­Armesto, a British historian of Spanish heritage at the University of Notre Dame, recasts the pilgrimage of Hispanics in...

DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar


"Dilma’s Year of Living Dangerously: The 2014 Elections in Brazil"
 
Timothy J. Power
University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies; University of Oxford
 
Frances Hagopian
Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Professor...

Schedule

Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History presents...

 SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL AMERICAN STUDIES

Thursday, December 11, 2014

CGIS S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street

 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.       Gather; light refreshments provided

 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.  ...

Rules, Regulation, Responsibility, and Merchant Organizations in Qing Chongqing: A Revisionist History of the "Chinese Guild"
Maura Dykstra

Maura Dykstra will argue the last century of studies on Chinese merchant organizations is founded upon misleading assumptions...

Speaker(s): Waltraud Schelkle, Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Sponsor(s):  Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe

Creating the European monetary union is arguably one of the biggest...

Speaker(s): Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Rocío Albert, Director General of Universities, Madrid State Government; José Antonio Marco, Director, Nace International School Group; José Manuel Martínez Sierra, Former...

Speaker(s): John Stephens, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina; Discussant: Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Sponsor(s):  Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

There is no presentation and the paper should be read in advance. It is posted at least a week ahead of each...

Speaker(s): Kimberly Morgan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs , Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Sponsor(s):  Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion

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Speaker(s): Sigmar Gabriel, Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and Vice Chancellor of Germany

Sponsor(s):  European Economic Policy Forum

This lecture by H.E. Sigmar Gabriel is part of the Center’s European Economic Policy Forum series, which convenes leading academics, senior experts and policymakers to analyze contemporary and emerging European economic policy issues and effective responses.

A reception...

Speaker(s): Michael Klitgaard, Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Sponsor(s):  Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe

Contact(s): Arthur Goldhammer, art.goldhammer@gmail.com