Speaker:

Tarek Hassan, Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Jane Trahan
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Speaker:

Arthur Blouin, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto.

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Gia Petrakis
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This seminar is open to Harvard affiliates and members of the Cambridge and Boston academic community. Members of the public may attend only upon receiving specific permission from the chairs.

Speaker:

Larissa Buchholz, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows.

Discussant:

Michèle Lamont, Center Director;...

Speaker:

Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics, University College London.

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Jeanne Winner
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Speaker:

Rohit De, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University.

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Emily Gauthier
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Speaker:

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School.

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Shana Rabinowich
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Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

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Speaker:

James Robinson, Professor, the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-5079

Moderators:

Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Nathan Nunn...

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics

Devesh Kapur, Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India, Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania 

Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Devesh...

Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium Seminar
Chairs: Robin Kelsey and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Speakers:

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Professor of History, Harvard University.

Charles Carstens, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion.

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JOHN DURHAM PETERS "CELESTIAL DATABASES: THE CASE OF JOSEPH SMITH’S MEDIA THEOLOGY"

Fantasies of omniscience and total records haunt the age of Big Data. Many data-processing corporations cloak themselves in the celestial rhetoric of “the cloud” and Google co-founder Sergey Brin once stated that “a perfect search engine would be the mind of God.”  Media historians interested in forerunners of digital computation have pointed to a number of book-keeping and data-gathering projects, both bureaucratic and religious, that point to our moment of superabundant documentation. ...

Chad Wellmon, Associate Professor of German Studies and faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, will discuss “Googling Before Google:  A Brief History of the Search”.

 Drawing on histories of science, print, and the university, Wellmon’s 2015 Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University examined how the modern research university emerged as a response to the challenges posed by the eighteenth-century information revolution. His talk will...