The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Karen AbuZayd
Commissioner, UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry on Syria; and former Special Adviser to the Secretary General for the Global Summit on Refugees and Migrants, 2016

Karen AbuZayd has extensive United Nations experience in humanitarian and human rights work in numerous countries.  Since...

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University is turning 30! To mark this occasion, we are hosting a two-and-a-half-day celebration, @HarvardEthics: Celebrating 30 Years at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics from Thursday to Saturday, May 4-6, 2017.

See the schedule and furthe details on their website. 

Further Details on the CES Website.

• Susan Rubin Suleiman – C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France, Harvard University; Research Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University
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This keynote lecture is part of the Europe on Credit Series, which brings together financial experts, literary scholars, historians and social scientists to examine the connection between public finance and narratives of indebtedness and creditworthiness....

Paolo Dardanelli
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Kent; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

This talk will seek to identify under what conditions central governments in Europe devolve 'strong' powers to regional governments through a comparative analysis of eighteen European countries...

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German economics appears to be a different land. Some critics have even suggested German policymakers and academics live in a “parallel intellectual universe”. The conflict with U.S. economic policy pragmatism is a hardy perennial in international debates – long before the most recent...

Brandon Bloch

PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate , Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Graduate Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Contact: Gili Kliger (kliger@g.harvard.edu)

How do democracies form and what makes them die? In his new book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy, Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler’s 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major...

2017 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture and Reception

Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Director General, The National Museum of Tanzania

Tanzania has a record of more than three million years of human history and diversity, including fossil remains, footprints, and stone toolkits of early humans and hominin ancestors, from sites such as Laetoli, Olduvai Gorge, and Peninj. The National Museum of Tanzania supports the preservation of the country’s rich natural and cultural diversity through scientific research, education, and public outreach programs. Audax Mabulla will discuss...

Please join the Carr Center and a group of Rwandan students from Harvard University for a commemorative seminar in honor of the victims of the 1994 genocide of Rwandans. 

The Rwandan Student Community at Harvard University together with the Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, the Center for African Studies and the HKS Africa Caucus invite you to the 23rd commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi.

This commemoration event will feature a seminar discussion on crimes of genocide and how the global community can work together to prevent such atrocities from...

 Roma Sendyka
Associate Professor at the Polish Studies Department and the head of the Research Center for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Central and Eastern Europe—the scenes of brutal genocides during the last century—are dotted with sites of trauma. Only some of those potential sites of memory are now marked with plaques, gravestones or memorials. This talk will focus on the sites that have been left behind, contested or forgotten and that still contain the bodies of victims. Because the problematic sites are kept out of the social...

William Wyckoff, a leading historical geographer of the American West, will be at Harvard on April 3^rd for an evening lecture (4-6pm) titled, “Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the American West,” and a lunchtime discussion (12-1:15pm) of his recent book How to Read the American West: A Field Guide. The lunch meeting will be a discussion of Chapter 6 of that work, “Landscapes of Federal Largesse” which explores how to see the federal presence that is imprinted on the...

Join the University of Wisconsin-Madison, MIT STS and Harvard University for a screening of The Land Beneath Our Feet.

The Land Beneath Our Feet weaves together rare archival footage from a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia with the journey of a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, seeking to understand how the past has shaped land conflicts in his country today. This film is an explosive reminder of how large-scale land grabs are transforming livelihoods across the planet.

 

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The Public Engagement in the Social Sciences Working Group presents:

“Live, Write, Advocate Beyond the Discipline:

A Conversation with Arthur Kleinman”

Tuesday, March 28^th from 5-6:30^PM

Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room 203

21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

Dr. Arthur Kleinman is professor of medical...

Please join The Center for American Political Studies for a talk & reception with artist Oscar Palacio and Robin Kelsey, in conjunction with Palacio's exhibition, American...