Seminar Archives

Fall 2012: 

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 4:10 p.m.

Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324

Samuel Moyn, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

"From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: How Americans Learned to Oppose Atrocity rather than Aggression"

Comment: Sarah Sewall, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4:10 p.m.

Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324

David Engerman, Professor of History, Brandeis University

"Development as a Cold War Weapon: Foreign Experts and the Rise of Indian Economists"

Comment: Moshik Temkin, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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Monday, December 3, 2012, 4:10 p.m.

Bell Hall, belfer Building

Steffen Rimner, PhD Candidate, History

"Between Empire and Globalization: China's Foreign Relations and the Origins of Global Drug Control"

Caroline Spence, PhD Candidate, History

"The First Anti-Trafficking Campaign: The Atlantic Slave Trade and its Modern Legacy"

Comment: Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Spring 2012: 

Thursday, Feburary 16, 2012, 4:10 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Brian DeLay, University of California at Berkeley

"Sailing Backward on Mexico's 'Iron River of Guns:' The Political Economy of the Arms Trade in the"

Thursday February 16, 2012 4:10pm (Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building):

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Thursday, April 5, 2012, 4:10 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Seminar and Panel Discussion featuring Professors Michael Woolcock, Lant Prtichett, Alex Keyssar and Sergio Silva-Castaneda

"History and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue?"

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Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:10 p.m.

Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building

Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics

"Restless Empire: The Historical Origins of China's Foreign Policy Challenges Today"

Fall 2011:

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 4:10 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Julia Ott, Assistant Professor of History, The New School for Social Research

"Not All of Us Were Keynesians: The New York Stock Exchange and the Origins of Supply-Side Economics"

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Thursday, November 3, 2011, 4:10 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Martin Miller, Professor of History, Duke University

"Writing the History of Terrorism"

Spring 2011:

Thursday February 24, 2011, 4:00p.m.  

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History, Political Science, and Sociology, Vanderbilt University

"The Politics of Privacy in the U.S., Past and Present:  Episodes in the History of the 'Surveillance Society.'" 

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Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University

"Marriage on Trial: Uses of History in the Case against California's Proposition 8"

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Wednesday April 27, 2011, 4:10p.m.

124 Mt. Auburn, Suite 200-North

Co-sponsored with the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Jacques Rupnik, Sciences Po, Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris

"Waves of Democracy Compared: Europe 1989 and the Arab Worldin 2011"

Fall 2010:

Thursday September 23, 2010 4:00 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Daniel J. Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
"Genes, Railroads, and Rights: Patents, Medicine, and the Public Interest"

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Thursday October 7, 2010 4:00 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building

Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University, and Director of the Harvard University Library

"The Research Library Today: Three Jeremiads in Search of a Happy Ending."

Mary Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science, University of Southern California Law School

“Law, War, and the History of Time.”

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Thursday November 4, 2010 4:00 p.m.

Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building