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2015 Nov 03

DRCLAS: Tuesday Seminar Series: "Pregnancy and the Forty-year Prison Sentence: Social Movement Outcomes and the Variable Enforcement of Abortion Laws in Nicaragua and El Salvador"

12:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S-250, 1730 Cambridge St.

For more info see the DRCLAS website.

Jocelyn Viterna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University

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2015 Oct 23

DRCLAS: Cuban Studies Program: "Roundtable: New Research on the History of Public Health in Cuba"

12:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S-250, 1730 Cambridge St.

For more info see the DRCLAS website.

John Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Jennifer Lambe, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University

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2015 Oct 30

CES: The Distribution of Skills and Voting Behavior across American States

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Lucy Goodhart Lecturer in International and Global Studies, Brandeis University

Sponsors: Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

There will be no presentation and the seminar will go straight to discussion. Those planning to attend should read the paper available under the listing for this Seminar on the CES...
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2015 Nov 06

CES: Economic Crisis and Mass Protest: The Pots and Pans Revolution in Iceland

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
For up-to-date information, see the CES website.
A wave of popular protests hit Iceland in the aftermath of the national financial collapse, triggered by the global banking crisis of 2008. These protests evolved into explosive demonstrations that eventually brought down the government of Iceland in January 2009. In this talk, Professor Bernburg will discuss his forthcoming book, “Economic...
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2015 Sep 30

CES: Visiting Scholars Seminar: Federalism in West Germany 1949-2008

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Practices and notions of democracy seem to change constantly within the history of West German federalism. Between 1949 and 2008, we trace various concepts of democratic legitimacy in West Germany and later in the reunited Germany. Each time federalism related differently to democracy. Which institutions and mechanisms favored the formation of compromise? How did federal consensus-building change democratic practices?

Siegfried Weichlein Visiting Scholar...
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2015 Sep 24

CES: Visiting Scholars Seminar: Party Competition and the Politics of Broken Welfare Promises

12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Goldman Room
Abstract: The welfare state is among the most fought-over topics in national elections in Western democracies. Pledges on what parties will do if elected are a regular part of most campaigns. Some parties promise to expand the welfare state, others to retrench it or leave it as it is. We...
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2015 Oct 27

Mass Historical Society: Immigration, Race and the Tea Party Movement

5:15pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3695

Luis Jiménez, University of Massachusetts—Boston
Comment: Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

To what extent has racial anxiety played a factor in the formation of the tea party movement? Previous literature, ethnographic work and anecdotal evidence point to a complex mythology of taxpayers versus freeloaders that appears to not have any empirical basis, but rather rests on racial cues. This paper tests these hypotheses through a number of measures at different levels--state,...

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