Tim Barker, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University
“How to Pay for the War: The Political Economy of Military Keynesianism in the United States, 1945-1979”

Samantha Payne, Ph.D Candidate in History, Harvard University
“The Last Atlantic Revolution: Emancipation and Reconstruction in the U.S. and Latin America”

Naomi Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics and History, Yale University
“States, Not Nation: The Sources of Political and Economic Development in the Early United States”

Noam Maggor, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, and Stefan Link, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College  

“The United States as a Developing Nation: The Political Origins of Modern American Capitalism”   

Commentator: Shaun Nichols, College Fellow in History, Harvard University

Jonathan Levy, Professor of History, University of Chicago

“Primal Capital: Money and the Microfoundations of Keynes's General Theory”

Commentator: Stephen Marglin (Professor of Economics, Harvard University)

Speaker:

Ken Ruoff, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University.

Discussant:

Andrew Gordon, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Victor and William Fung Acting Director, Harvard University Asia Center (2016-2017).

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

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Speaker:

Guo Xo, Assistant Professor of Economics, Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of...

Speaker:

Merry White, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Speaker:

Eduardo Montero, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard...

Speaker:

James Kung, Professor of Social Science, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics,...

Speaker:

Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

Contact:

Yueran Zhang
yueranzhang@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Department of History,...

We warmly welcome students of Harvard College to our annual Open House for Undergraduates.

Meet Weatherhead Center faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars, fellows, staff, and IRoC members. Learn about Weatherhead Center grants and opportunities for undergraduates including:

• Summer travel grants for thesis research
• Research internships in France
• Study groups led by Weatherhead Center affiliates
• Winter-break grants for research and travel
• Research assistant positions to faculty...

Speaker: 

Steven Lukes, Professor of Sociology, New York University.

Contact:

Yueran Zhang
yueranzhang@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Commentator: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Mitchell Bacci, PhD Candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together...

Christy Thornton, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Commentator: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Angelica Marquez-Osuna, PhD Candidate in the History of Science, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty...