Event Archive 2015

Mar 19, 2015

Esther Whitfield and Patricia Ybarra ─ Bordering on the Americas

CLACS Affiliated Faculty Lecture Series

12 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 18, 2015

Jose Antonio Cheibub ─ Order in Chaos: Intra-party Coordination in Systems of Open-List-Proportional-Representation

6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 18, 2015

The Human Rights Debate

4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Development and Governance Seminar

Mar 18, 2015

Andy Clarno ─ The Empire’s New Walls: The Politics of Enclosure in South Africa and Palestine/Israel

4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Center for Middle East Studies

Mar 17, 2015

Screening of Kings and Extras – Digging for a Palestinian Image

"1948 – Once Upon a Palestine" Film Series

6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 17, 2015

In and Out of Uniform: Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered

A discussion prompted by James Fallows’ "The Tragedy of the American Military"

2 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 17, 2015

Carsten Holz ─ The Quality of China's GDP Statistics

2:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 3rd Floor

China Initiative

Mar 17, 2015

Oscar Sosa ─ Infrastructure and Citizenship: The Politics of Transportation Reform in Mexico City

12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Center for Contemporary South Asia

Mar 16, 2015

Book Adda featuring Leela Gandhi's The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and Democracy, 1900-1955

6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 16, 2015

Leah VanWey ─ Drivers and Consequences of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil

CLACS Affiliated Faculty Lecture Series

12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Mar 16, 2015

Malcolm Byrne ─ Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power

12 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Security Studies Seminar

Center for Contemporary South Asia

Mar 13, 2015

Milan Vaishnav ─ Understanding the Changing Indian Voter

Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics

2 p.m. Harvard University, CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Mar 13–15, 2015

Conference ─ Transformative Possibilities in the Global South

The 4th annual conference of the Sociology of Development Section of the American Sociological Association.

Watson Institute

Watson Political Economy Forum

Mar 12, 2015

Wade Jacoby ─ Avoiding Monocultures: Uncertainty and the Case for Managed Diversity Within the European Union

5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Mar 12, 2015

Cheol-Sung Lee ─ Embeddedness and Welfare States: A Network Approach to Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Developing Countries

12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Mar 11–12, 2015

Screening of Eduardo Escorel Documentaries

Spring 2015 Film Series

March 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 11, 2015

Eduardo Escorel ─ Martyrs, Heroes and Ordinary Men

6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 11, 2015

Verónica Pérez ─ ¿Estado versus mercado?

12 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Center for Middle East Studies

Mar 11, 2015

Sarah Tobin ─ Early Marriage in Zaatari: Displacement and Agency Among Syrian Refugees

Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series

12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Center for Middle East Studies

Mar 10, 2015

Yousef Hilmy '16 and Michael Chernin '15 ─ Transgressing Textual Borders: Taha Husayn's Intellectual Trajectory and The Death Penalty in Shari'a

Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series

6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Mar 10, 2015

Anthony Pereira ─ The National Truth Commission: Brazilian Exceptionalism in Transitional Justice?

12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room

Mar 9, 2015

Screening of El hombre de Maisinicú

A 'Dolly Back' through Cuban Cinema: 50 Years of ICAIC

6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 9, 2015

Nancy Postero ─ Decolonization in Plurinational Bolivia

Andean Lecture Series

4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum

Mar 9, 2015

Benedita Da Silva ─ Brazilian Politics, Present and Future

4 p.m. Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting Street