Program on U.S. - Japan Relations

Louise Young
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Special Series on the Changing Face of Japan

This seminar series is supported by...

Read more about WCFIA: The Idea of Class in Modern Japan

Political Economy Seminar:  

Nancy Fraser, the Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School, will present her paper titled "Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory." Professor Rudi Batzell of Lake Forest College and Brandon Finn (GSD) will provide comments.

If you need a copy of the paper, please email Samantha Payne,spayne@g.harvard.edu

 

Nado Signona, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Directof of the Institute of Research into Superdiversity, Univerity of Birmingham, UK

 

Introduction by Dr. Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz

Followed by conversation with film Director Medhin Paolos and Dr. Angela Davis

(Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway). Doors will open at 5:30pm. This program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

Free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis,...

Read more about DACA Seminar Series:Film Screening of "Asmarina" - Director, Medhin Paolos

Ju Hong

Erika Andiola

and More!

The seminar is co-organized by History Department faculty Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld in partnership with Roberto G. Gonzales of the Ed School.

DACA Seminar is an event series around questions related to the termination of DACA and TPS, deportations, the current state of immigration policy and practice and implications for young people, parents, families, communities, scholars, artists, workers, policy makers and practitioners.

 

 

Join us for performances and workshops by artisits, poets, and musicians

Rebel Diaz, Audry Funk, Martha Gonzalez, Quetzal Flores, Vijay Tyer, Esperanza Spalding, Yosimar Reyes, Julio Salgado, Sonia Guinansaca, Claire Chase

Deborah Anker, Harvard Law

Sabrineh Ardalan, Harvard Law

Dan Kanstroom, Boston College Law

Mike Wishnie, Yale Law

Moderated by Christine Desan

The seminar is co-organized by History Department faculty Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld in partnership with Roberto G. Gonzales of the Ed School.

 

DACA Seminar is an event series around questions related to the termination of DACA and TPS, deportations, the current state of...

Read more about DACA Seminar Series: Legal Strategies for Fighting Back: A Conversation with Top Immigration Lawyers

Denisse Rojas, Pre Health Dreamers

Monica Sibri, CUNY DREAMers

Maria Blanco, UC Legal Services Center

Meng So, Undocumented Student Program, UC Berkeley

The seminar is co-organized by History Department faculty Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld in partnership with Roberto G. Gonzales of the Ed School.

DACA Seminar is an event series around questions related to the termination of DACA and TPS, deportations, the current state of immigration policy and practice and...

Read more about DACA Seminar Series: Higher Education and Life after college Panel

Astou Thiane, Teach for America

Viri Carrizales, Teach for America

Luis Ortega, Storytellers for Change

Jin Park, Harvard University

Mary Skipper, Superintendent, Somerville Public Schools

Join us for a conversation with workers directly affected by the TPS repeal:

• Martha Bonilla, UNITE HERE Local 26
• Doris Reina-Landaverde, 32BJ SEIU
• Julio Perez, Comité TPS Massachusetts

Excerpt from a letter delieved to President Drew Faust on February 1, 2018. The letter was signed by a coalition workers, faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students across the university:

The Department of Homeland Security announced between November 6, 2017 and January 8, 2018 that TPS would be terminated for Nicaragua, Haiti and El...

Read more about DACA Seminar Series: The Impact of the TPS Repeal on Campus: Harvard Workers' Stories

Kimberly Blockett, PhD (Penn State, Brandywine)

Colorado Scholar, Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and African American Religions

Lunch to accompany.

Ferial Khalifa, PhD

 

Visiting Scholar of Women's Studies and Islam

Lunch to accompany.

 

Laura R. Prieto, PhD (Simmons College)

Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies and American Religious History

Read more about Divinity School: Making Disciples: Women, Missions, and Colonial Education in the Early 20th-Century Philippines

The South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC) seeks to share ongoing, current scholarly research on topics in South Asian religions with Harvard students and faculty as well as the wider Boston academic community.

This event will feature speaker John Cort, Professor of Asian and Comparative Religions, and Judy Gentili, Chair in International Studies, Denison University.  Prof. Cort will present a lecture entitled, “'No One Gives Like the Guru’: Images of the True Guru in Jainism. Explorations of a Religious and Literary Theme in South Asian History.”

You can find...

Read more about Divinity School: No One Gives Like the Guru’: Images of the True Guru in Jainism. Explorations of a Religious and Literary Theme in South Asian History

Comparative Politics Seminar

As we live in an administered world, to look at the role of Public Administration in space and time can reveal unique aspects of structure and dynamics. In this seminar, Wolfgang Drechsler will discuss the development of PA – both in practice and theory – in the former ‘Second World’, which has been a quite cohesive research area, during the last 30 years. We will go from the old Soviet bureaucracy, via the market-based reforms of the 1990s and the effects of...

Read more about Davis Center: Kafka's Castle goes Digital: Public Sector Reform in the Former Second World