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Willard Sunderland, Professor, Department of History, University of...

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​​​​​​​Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop

Joshua A. Tucker ...

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Eugene Ostashevsky, Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University

Cosponsored by the Davis Center ...

Speaker: Winifred Tate, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Colby College

The events are open to the public. A paper will be pre-circulated a week before each meeting and participants are expected to come to the meeting ready to discuss it. Contact Ieva Jusionyte jusionyte@fas.harvard.edu for the copy of the paper to be discussed. 

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Speaker: David Carballo, DRCLAS Santander Visiting Scholar & Associate Professor of Archaeology, Boston University

Moderator: William Fash, ...

Speaker: Lina Britto, Ph.D., New York University, historian of modern Latin America and the Caribbean

Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University

Before Colombian cocaine made headlines, marijuana coming from the South American nation flooded U.S. cities and suburbs at a time when smoking weed was the most common illegal indulgence. By examining the first drug boom in the country that would later become one of the largest drug havens in the world,...

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. 

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• 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...