Cold War Studies Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Melvyn P. Leffler, Stettinius Professor of History, University of Virigina

Commentary by:
Fredrik Logevall, Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
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Speaker: Timo Schaefer, Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University, Department of History; Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies

Moderator: Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

In the nineteenth century, Mexicans faced the challenge of constructing republican legal institutions in a society shaped by centuries of colonial rule. This talk examines how people attempted to meet that challenge in towns and in hacienda (agricultural estate) settlements. More broadly, it analyzes in what...

Naomi Lamoreaux
Yale University

The CMES Director's Series and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations present

Prashant Keshavmurthy
Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies, McGill University

Sa'...

CMES is pleased to present the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series speaker

Nasser Rabbat

Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

Please note the lecture's new time: 5:00-7:00 pm

Light has often been deployed as a transcendental element in Islamic architecture. For more than fifteen centuries, architects all over the Islamic World have...

The CMES Director's Series presents

Francesca Maria Corrao
Professor of Arabic Language and Culture, Department of Political Science, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Rome

Francesca Maria Corrao is Professor of Arabic...

The CES Colonial Encounters Working Group and CMES present

Allison Hartnett
Pre-doctoral research fellow, Middle East Inititiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; DPhil candidate, University of Oxford

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The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Ohannes Kılıçdağı
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Ohannes Kılıçdağı, after his double major degree of sociology and political science at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, received...

The CMES Israeli Law, Literature and Society Seminar Series presents

Nili Gold

Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

The city of Haifa’s structure is tied...

Join us at the Advising Fortnight info session at our Center and explore the exciting opportunities offered by the secondary field in European History, Politics and Societies. Our team of advisors will be here to answer your questions. Discover how the Center's programs can enrich your studies through internships as well as travel and research in Europe.

Sponsors

• Minda de Gunzburg...

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Join us at the kick-off event for Advising Fortnight. Enjoy a special buffet and explore the concentration fair. Come to the CES booth and speak with our advisors for the secondary field in European History, Politics and Societies. Learn what this exciting field has to offer...

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

SPEAKER

Kathleen Thelen
Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT and CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

Contact: 

Peter A. Hall​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​phall@fas.harvard.edu

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This paper identifies key...

Yukako Otori (History)

In the 1920s, the League of Nations promoted the standardization of passports. This paper will point out that the modern passport regime has not exempted children since its inception. At the same time, it has distinguished them from adults: children were not necessarily assured the right to hold a passport of their own; children could be included in the family passport of their parent, more exactly, that of their father. The system of family passports, however, remained not criticized for most of the 1920s, when...