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2018 Feb 09

HLS Economic History Workshop: The Development Effects of the Extrative Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Littauer Center, 1805 Cambridge Street, M16

Speaker:

Benjamin Olken, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of 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...

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2018 Feb 02

WCFIA Workshop on Culture, History, and Society: Abroad and at Home: 'Militarization,' or the Colonial Counter-Insurgenization of Policing in Early 20th America

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall Rm. 1550, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

Speaker:

Julian Go, Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston 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...

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2018 Feb 02

2018 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference

7:45am to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

The Weatherhead Center invites you to its annual conference featuring senior thesis research presentations by its Undergraduate Associates. For full details, including the agenda and presentation abstracts, please visit the conference website at http://conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/undergraduate_thesis.

Contact:

Clare Putnam
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9899

See also: ...

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2018 Feb 01

2018 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference

12:15pm to 6:15pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

The Weatherhead Center invites you to its annual conference featuring senior thesis research presentations by its Undergraduate Associates. For full details, including the agenda and presentation abstracts, please visit the conference website at http://conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/undergraduate_thesis.

Contact:

Clare Putnam
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9899

See also: ...

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2018 Jan 30

WCFIA Political Violence Workshop: State Development in Civil War: How Rebels and Bureaucrats Manage Institutional Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel K401, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Speaker:

Rachel Sweet, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Contact:

Kaitlyn Chriswell
chriswell@g.harvard.edu

See also: Political Violence Workshop, 2017-2018...

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2018 Jan 29

STS Circle Seminar: Democracy by the Numbers: The Twentieth-Century Fight over US Congressional Reapportionment

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Speaker:

Alma Steingart, Lecturer, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Shana Ashar
shana_ashar@hks.harvard.edu

 

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and...

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2018 Feb 13

WIGH: Book Round Table for The Cold War: A World History

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Book Round Table
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad
S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

Discussants:
Timothy J. Colton, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
 

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2018 Feb 23

CES: Demobilizing Democrats and the Working Class: The Enduring Political Consequences of Right-to-Work Laws Across the U.S. States

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

SPEAKER

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

 

DISCUSSANT

Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and CES Faculty Associate, Harvard University

 

A number of newly-GOP...

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2018 Feb 09

CES Dissertation Workshop: Twelve Anxious Men: Re-Examning Algeria's Transition to Independence

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

Andrew Bellisari - PhD Student in History and CES Graduate Student Affiliate, Harvard University

 

In this Dissertation Workshop, Andrew Bellisari will present an overview of the Algerian War between November 1954 and March 1962 and offer a detailed look at the four-month “transition period” between the signing of the Evian Accords in March 1962 and the referendum on Algerian independence in July 1962.

About

This chapter will also discuss the months immediately...

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2018 Jan 24

Hutchins Center: [A] tone of voice peculiar to New-England”: Fugitive Slave Advertisements and the Heterogeneity of Enslaved Blacks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Quebec

12:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Hutchins W.E.B Du Bois Research Institute

Charmaine Nelson, Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University; William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University           

2018 Apr 05

Legal History Workshop: Defending Kenyatta: Decolonization, Mobility, and a Global History of Rebellious Lawyering w/Rohit De

5:00pm

Location: 

WCC 4059, Harvard Law School

Rohit De
Yale History 

 

If you would like a copy of the paper or have any questions, please email (dseung@law.harvard.edu) or call (617-496-2024) Dami Seung.

The Legal History Workshop takes place Thursdays at 5pm through the semester. 

 

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