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

Speaker(s): Josep Borrell, Former President, European Parliament; Jean Monnet Professor, Complutense University; Alexander H. Gourevitch, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Sponsor(s):  EU Law and Government Study Group; Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law and Government, Real Colegio Complutense.

The European left political scenario is...

Edi Rama has many faces: an artist, a writer, a sportsman, a politician. During his 11 years as the Mayor of Tirana, Albania’s capital, Edi Rama uplifted Tirana’s post-communist spirit by turning its grey facades into colorful art and fought bribes in the public sector by redesigning the interior of civil servants’ offices. Now the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Edi Rama promises an economic, political and cultural renaissance in his country.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Center for International Development.

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Speaker(s): Alexander Görlach, Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-chief, The European; Comment by: Racha Kirakosian, Assistant Professor of German and the Study of Religion, Harvard University

Germany is often perceived as Europe's powerhouse, with a stereotype around the world of being an efficient, obedient, on-time flock. How do its inhabitants tick? What drives them? How has this changed?
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Speaker(s): Thomas Weber, Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen; Visiting Scholar, CES

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

According to the standard narrative of the history of the twentieth century, the combatants of the Great War – the generation of our great-grandparents – were “men of violence”, sailing through a sea of utter destruction and change towards an ocean of even greater violence. Islands of...

 INSTITUTO CERVANTES AT HARVARD

Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos

TALLERES DE HABILIDADES COMUNICATIVAS PROFESIONALES EN ESPAÑOL

 “LA ENTREVISTA DE TRABAJO”

María Luisa Parra

(Harvard University)

Fuente: Pixabay.com

El Observatorio inicia una serie de talleres de habilidades...

Literary Uses of Correspondence: Discovering Early Epistolary Fiction in China
Antje Richter, University of Colorado, Boulder

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