** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

SPEAKER

Kathleen Thelen
Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT and CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

Contact: 

Peter A. Hall​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​phall@fas.harvard.edu

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Yukako Otori (History)

 

In the 1920s, the League of Nations promoted the standardization of passports. This paper will point out that the modern passport regime has not exempted children since its inception. At the same time, it has distinguished them from adults: children were not necessarily assured the right to hold a passport of their own; children could be included in the family passport of their parent, more exactly, that of their father. The system of family passports, however, remained not criticized for most of the 1920s...

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The Program on Constutional Government (PCG) Lunchtime Seminar presents:

"We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative"
George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

The Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University is directed by Harvey Mansfield. PCG Seminar talks are open to the public but RSVP is required. RSVP to pcg@gov.harvard.edu....

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Joanna Davidson is an Assistant Professor at Boston University. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include cultural conceptions of knowledge, anthropological engagements with development, and the politics of storytelling. Dr. Davidson has conducted ethnographic research in Guinea-Bissau since 1999, where she has focused on rural West Africans’ responses to environmental and economic change. She will present The Problem of Widows: Making and Unmaking Marriage in Rural West Africa. Discussant: George Meiu.

A week in advance, the...

Read more about Ctr. for African Studies: The Problem of Widows: Making and Unmaking Marriage in Rural West Africa

 

Undergraduates are invited to enjoy food from the African continent as we hear from a diverse guest panel who have worked in various African countries. An informal mixer, following the panel discussion, will offer an excellent opportunity to continue talking with panelists as well as other individuals with experience in Africa. This program is cosponsored by: The Office of Career Services (OCS), The Center for African Studies (CAS), Harvard African Student Association (HASA), and the Harvard Africa Business Investment Club (HABIC).

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Free Public Lecture

Laurel Bestock, Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Egyptology and Assyriology, and the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4,000 years ago, defending it with a string of monumental fortresses along the Nile River. Previously thought lost, when the construction of the Aswan High Dam flooded the area, one fortress, known as Uronarti, was recently rediscovered and is being excavated for the first time since George...

Read more about Ctr. for African Studies: Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti

Jennifer Lin, Former Reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer

Details: From Missionary Cook to Counter-Revolutionary: Five Generations of a Chinese Christian Family

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School

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Zheng Yanqing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”

Shao Yanjun, Peking University: “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”

Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers, Sharpers, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.”

Details: Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20^th and 21^st ...

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Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu,  Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar

The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean...

Read more about Fairbank Center: When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean

Speaker: Marcio Siwi, College Fellow in Latin American History, History Department, Harvard University

This presentation examines the understudied role of popular neighborhood associations in the rise of participatory urban planning in São Paulo. Often dismissed as “... Read more about DRCLAS: Grassroots Urbanism: Participatory Urban Planning in Post-WWII São Paulo

HUCE presents "This Land is Our Land: The Antiquities Act and the Battle for Public Lands" with John Leshy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; former Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior (Clinton Administration); and four-time visiting professor at HLS. With comment by Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, HLS, and Terry Tempest Williams, Writer-in-Residence, HDS. Reception to follow. 

John Leshy is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University...

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Read more about HGSA: When the Ku Klux Klan Was Almost a Political Party: the KKK in the 1920's This talk has been CANCELLED.

Join us for a discussion with Jargal Dambadarjaa, economist and media personality, about the democratic transition in Mongolia following the first multi-party elections in 1990. Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, will moderate. Anthony Saich, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation...

Read more about Ash Center: Lessons from the Democratic Transition in Mongolia: 25 Years After Revolution