Presenter:

Charles Petersen, "Meritocracy and the Equality Debate, 1958-1974"

Presenter:

Andrew Pope, "A Witch's Brew: Coalition Building Among Black Power, Gay Liberation, and Women's Liberation Movements in Atlanta, 1969-1974"

Presenters:

Liat Spiro, "Prime Movers: Dual Revolutions in Skills, Tools, and Trade, 1796-1852"

Presenter: 

Liang Xu, "Family Governmentality and Flexible Accumulation: Toward a Cultural Analysis of Chinese Garment Producers in South Africa"

Program on the Study of Capitalism

Presenters:

Rudi Batzell, "Terrains of Inequality and Work: Patriarchal Households and Proprietary Firms"

Turkey in the Modern World Seminar

Speaker:

Ahmet Şık, Investigative Journalist, Writer, and Winner of UNESCO's Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu Read more...

Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health

"Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness."

Speaker:

Janis H. Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Department of Anthropology, Division of Social Sciences Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of California at San Diego.

Co-sponsored by the Department of...

WIGI Undergraduate Research Fellows Present Summer Research

Speakers:

Quynh-Nhu Le,Undergraduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Domenica Merino,Undergraduate Associate; Simmons Family Research Fellow; Undergraduate...

"Legislative Gender Quotas and Feminist Policymaking in Argentina and Mexico"

Speaker:

Jennifer Piscopo, Assistant Professor of Politics, Occidental College; Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University

Contact:

Isade Salcedo 
...

“The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality”

Speaker:

Emily Breza, Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School.

Contacts:

Caitlin Kupsc 
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
jwinner@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Michael Kremer, Faculty Associate. Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, Harvard University....

"Latin American Party Systems: Institutionalization and Erosion"

Speaker:

Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor Brazil Studies; Faculty Co-chair, the Harvard Brazil Studies Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Isade Salcedo 
isalcedo@fas.harvard.edu ...

"Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt during the Housing Boom: Evidence and Implications"

Speaker:

Christopher Foote, Professor of the Practice, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Co-sponsored by the Economics Department, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cynthia Gomez 
Cgomez@fas.harvard.edu ...

"Writing  International  Legal  History  during  the  Long  Nineteenth  Century: Lawyers  as Global Historians 1750 -1900"
Speaker: Liliana Obregón, WIGH Visiting Fellow, Spring 2017; Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2016; Associate Professor in International Law, University of Los Andes Law School, Colombia

Commentator: ...

"Global History of Global Cities"
Sebastian Schmidt, Fellow, WIGH; PhD, History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT

Commentator: Eve Blau, Adjunct Professor of the History and Theory of Urban Form and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Graduate...

“Embracing Waterfronts: Dock Worker Solidarities in International Perspective”

Speaker:

Shubhankita Ojha, Global Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. PhD, Department of History, University of Delhi.

Commentator:

Sugata Bose,...