Peter Temin (M.I.T.)

Presented by the Political Economy Workshop. 

A Warren Center "occasional speaker", in collaboration with the American Studies Program.

As “American dream” became a cliché in the 20th century, the contrary refrain of American nightmare was probably inevitable. This talk is about American culture and European reconstruction. Alongside the familiar currents of Henry Luce’s American Century run stranger currents of culture, as the ruin of postwar Europe led writers and intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic to ...

• Marius R. Busemeyer – Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz
• Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy and CES Faculty Associate, Harvard University
• Steffen Mau – Professor of Macrosociology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; Visiting Scholar, CES,...

Agata Zysiak

Associate Professor, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw

About

In this presentation, Agata Zysiak will discuss a new project that evaluates journalistic accounts about the city of Łódź at the height of its position as Europe's textile capital in the 19th and 20th century. She will assess how writers dealt with the effects of industrialization and modernization and argue that their reports blended people's real experiences in the rapidly changing city with their utopian...

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

Rudolf Klein
Miklós Ybl Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Szent István University

About

Klein will present an overview of his newly published book Synagogues in Hungary 1782-1918. It is the first study on synagogues of Habsburg Hungary and one of the most comprehensive works addressing the question of synagogue architecture in the Diaspora, tackling religious and social aspects, formal determinants,...

Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series

Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; former Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Uganda and China

Chair:  Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus

See also: Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series, ...

This session is sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard.

Faiham Ebna Sharif, photographer and a Visiting Artist from Bangladesh at Harvard will deliver a presentation titled "Tea Tales of Bangladesh."

The session will be chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard. Comments on Faiham's work will be delivered by Alison Nordstörm, independent curator and historian of photography.

Faiham's work on labourers in the tea gardens of Bangladesh crosses...

Ritesh Jaiswal, Graduate Research Fellow, Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship; WIGH Fellow; PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Delhi

https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/lunch-talk-ritesh-jaiswal-migrants-material-and-mobility-assessing-aftermath?delta=0

Christian Cwik, Chair for Atlantic and European History, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-christian-cwik?delta=0

Panels 9:00 am-3:00 pm: Taubman T-G-1 Wiener Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School

Symposium participants include Lawrence D. Bobo, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Jennifer Hochschild, Walter Johnson, Peniel Joseph, Kenneth Mack, Julianne Malveaux, Raymond J. McGuire, Eugene Rivers, Tricia Rose, Tommie Shelby, Theda Skocpol, Jason Sokol, Brandon Terry, Jonathan Walton, Margaret Weir, William Julius Wilson.

Closing Keynote Address 4:00-5:00 pm: JFK Forum,...

Tickets are $50 online, $60 at the door.

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What is SUP?

PBHA’s Summer Urban Program, or SUP, is a network of 10 summer camps at 11 different sites across Boston and Cambridge for seven weeks each summer. SUP is staffed by 130 college students and 90 local high schoolers, and, each summer, welcomes more than 800 young people ages 6 to 13. Our Refugee Youth Enrichment Program (RYSE) is an evening camp serving high school students. SUP offers mornings of academic enrichment, afternoons of educational field trips, and artistic, cultural, and service-learning workshops throughout the week, along with two overnight camping trips and a day-long final trip.

SUP camps operate in the following communities:

• Cambridge
• Chinatown
• Dorchester
• Mission Hill
• Roxbury
• South End
• South Boston

Supporting Immigrant Youth

In partnership with TripAdvisor, a sponsor from last year, our Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment Program (RYSE) traveled to the company to trade immigration stories. The meeting and sponsorship resulted in the development of RYSE's "Museum Project" which allowed refugee and immigrant students to represent their stories through art.

... Read more about Phillips Brooks House Association: [SUP AUCTION] Invest in Immigrant Youth & Boston/Cambridge Neighborhoods, Sponsor & Bid on Items on April 19

Colonialism and Mediterranean Study Europe

Laura Robson
Professor of History, Portland State University

Over the past decade, pundits and diplomats alike have repeatedly proposed partition – and its twin, forcible population exchange – as “solutions” to what they depict as inveterate sectarian conflict across the Middle East. In this lecture, Laura Robson explores the twentieth century history of such ideas, suggesting that proposals for partition and...

Daniel Ziblatt
Professor of Government and CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University

Steven Levitsky
Professor of Government, Harvard University

Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of Americans never thought they would be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and...