Events
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"Understanding Chavez"
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"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.
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"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).
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"Is India a Flailing State?"
- Speakers
- Pritchett, Lant
- Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Contact Information
On Monday, March 1 at 2 pm, The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline will host a special benefit screening of Jonathan Demme's moving Haiti documentary The Agronomist. The Oscar-winning director, who will receive the 2010 Coolidge Award, will introduce the film and answer questions afterward. Proceeds from this event will go to support Haiti earthquake relief through the on-the-ground nonprofit organization, Partners in Health (www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti).
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"Immigrant Youth and Achievement: The Messy Stories of Access"
Members, Fellows and anyone else are invited to attend our informal monthly meetings which are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 12 noon in the Third Floor Conference room, Anderson Hall, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University. Please confirm with Paul [dot] Kirshen
tufts [dot] edu for current meeting date.
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"Why Has Obama Been Unable to Move Netanyahu on the Palestinian Question?"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
The Considering Copenhagen Panel will bring together four experts on climate change policy to consider the results of the negotiations in Copenhagen with a particular focus on identifying the analytical gaps and research needs to inform international climate change policy going forward.
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"Property and Dispossession among Northern Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Innu/Montagnais, 1608-1705"
- Speakers
- Greer, Allan
- Professor of History, McGill University.
- Conta
- "Realty Check: How the Facts of Life on a Tough New Planet Shape Our Choices"
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"The Conundrum of Consensus: in Search of "the" Pakistani Identity"
- Speakers
- Shaikh, Farzana
- Associate Fellow, Chatham House, London.
