Events

"In the Service of State and Nation: Religion in East Asia."

Discussant: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School, and University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University.

This session is occasioned by the publication of a report on "Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research" which was released by the National Science Foundation in December 2008.  This university-wide event will be followed by a reception, which will bring together members of the community of qualitative social scientists at Harvard.

"Courts as Sites of Resistance to U.S.

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

"Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis"

Moderator/Chair

Campbell, John Y.

Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics, and Chair, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Speakers

Rogoff, Kenneth S.

Faculty Associate. Thomas D.

Peter Victor is an economist who has worked on environmental issues for over 40 years as an academic, public servant and consultant. Peter Victor challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy. The challenge is based on a critical analysis of the literature on environmental and resource limits to growth, on the disconnect between higher incomes and happiness, and on the failure of economic growth to meet other key economic, social and environmental policy objectives. 

"Update from Afghanistan: The Taliban, The Government, and the Criminal"

(Lunch is available for purchase in the Fisher Family Commons, 1st Floor.)

Speakers

Quraishi, Akbar

Former Director of Assessment, Afghan National Security Council.

Shekhar, Atul

Regional Governance Advisor/Head Northern Region UNDP, Afghanistan.

Ali, Tara

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"Artistic Primitivism and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernisms: Western Discourse, Global Diaspora"

Moderator/Chair

Roilos, Panagiotis

Faculty Associate.

"Ecologies of Human Flourishing: A Case from Pre-Modern South India"

The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The conference entails a series of panels chaired by Faculty Associates and Graduate Student Associates. Clustered by regional or disciplinary themes, each presentation is followed by questions, commentary, and feedback for the enhancement of thesis work in its final stages.

"The European Union in Afghanistan: From the Failed Police Mission to the Ongoing Re-evaluation of Policy"

Speakers

Kempin, Ronja

Fritz Thyssen Fellow, Program on Transatlantic Relations.

The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The conference entails a series of panels chaired by Faculty Associates and Graduate Student Associates. Clustered by regional or disciplinary themes, each presentation is followed by questions, commentary, and feedback for the enhancement of thesis work in its final stages.

The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The conference entails a series of panels chaired by Faculty Associates and Graduate Student Associates. Clustered by regional or disciplinary themes, each presentation is followed by questions, commentary, and feedback for the enhancement of thesis work in its final stages.

"Windigos and the Law: Living Indigenous Legal Traditions"

 

Jeni Klugman, the Director and Lead-Author of the UNDP Human Development Report Office, will deliver the Pardee Distinguished Lecture on February 23, 2010, which is being organized jointly by the Boston University Global Development program and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.

"Keynes in Latin America: Then and Now"

Speakers

Schydlowsky, Daniel

Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.; Robert F.

"Understanding Chavez"

 

"The Origins of 'Crimes against Humanity': The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide"

Comment: Mira Siegelberg Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. 

"The Fiscal Anatomy of a Regulatory Polity: Tax Policy and Multi-level Governance in the European Union"

Speakers

Jachtenfuchs, Markus

Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Program on Transatlantic Relations (spring 2010).

"Is India a Flailing State?"

Speakers

Pritchett, Lant

Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School.

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