Wednesday, March 28, 12-1:30pm - Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series
Stephen Tuck (Oxford University)
"The Doubts of Their Fathers – The Secular Origins of the Civil Rights Movement"
Wednesday, March 28, 4-6pm - International and Global History Seminar
Frank Costigliola (University of Connecticut)
“The Emotions of George Kennan”
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050
Wednesday, March 28, 7pm - Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Téa Obreht
"The Tiger’s Wife"
Wednesday, March 29-30 - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Women Making Democracy
For more information, a complete conference schedule, and to register, please click here or visit www.radcliffe.edu.
Cancelled - Monday, April 2, 4-6pm - Warren Center's Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Richard Teichgraeber (Tulane University).
"The Arrival of 'Up-or-Out' Tenure: James B. Conant and the 'Tempest at Harvard,' 1936-39"
Tuesday, April 3, 4:00pm - History of Science Colloquium
Gregg Mitman (Warren Fellow; University of Wisconsin)
"A Journey without Maps: Film, Expeditionary Science, and the Growth of Development"
Tuesday, April 3, 5:15-7:15pm - MHS Early American History Seminar
Len Travers (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
"The Court-Martial of Jonathan Barnes"
Wednesday, April 4, 12:00 - 1:30pm - Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series
Jaqueline Santos (Independent Scholar)
"Hiphop and the Reconfiguration of Blackness in Sao Paulo: The Influence of African American Political and Musical Movements in the 20th Century"
Wednesday, April 4, noon - American Political History Seminar
Charles Romney (University of Arkansas)
"Habeas Corpus, Asian Migrants, and the Colonial State in Hawai'i, 1900-1920"
Wednesday, April 4, noon - John Carter Brown Library Fellows Lunch
Amy Bushnell (Invited Research Scholar, John Carter Brown Library)
"Prickly Pears, Maguey Grubs, and Blue-Green Algae: Subsistence Routines and Food Security in the Americas"
Thursday, April 5, 4-6pm - Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
Featuring Professors Michael Woolcock (HKS), Lant Prtichett (HKS), Alex Keyssar (HKS), and Sergio Silvez-Castañeda (FAS).
“History and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue?”
Wednesday, April 4, 6pm - Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
3 Américas (2007), directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 6:30 - 8:30pm - Du Bois Institute movie screening and reception
"Apple Pushers"
Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Boston Foundation and Common Angels.
Friday, April 6, 2:00-4:00pm - Harvard Center for American Political Studies
Debbie Schildkraut (Tufts University)
“The Complicated Constituency: A Study of Immigrant Opinions about Political Representation”
Monday, April 9, 4-6pm - Warren Center's Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Mary Furner (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"The Renewal of Intention: Knowledge and Civic Discourse in the Long Progressive Era"
Monday, April 9, 4pm - Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
Tayari Jones ( Rutgers University)
"Dear History: A Novel”
Tuesday, April 10, 5:15-7:15pm - MHS Environmental History Seminar
Brian J. Payne (Bridgewater State University)
Comment: Josh Reid (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
"Controlling the Cost of Fish: Weir Fishermen and Price Control in the Sardine Herring Fishery, 1875-1903"
Wednesday, April 11, 12:00-1:30pm - Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series
Vera Ingrid Grant (Independant Scholar)
"The Goetz Coin: Images of Africans in 20th-Century Germany"
Wednesday, April 11, 4pm - Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
Amy Goldstein (Washington Post)
“Tumbling Downhill: The Ripple Effects of Unemployment and Underemployment in the United States”
Wednesday, April 11, 4:15pm - Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
Joel Isaac (Cambridge University)
"Working Knowledge: Toward a History of the American Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century"
Response: Andrew Jewett (Department of History, Harvard University)
Thursday, April 11, 7pm - Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Brenda Wineapple
"On the Brink of War – Literary Boston in 1860"
Thursday, April 12, 4:15pm - Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
Joel Isaac (Cambridge)
"Philosophy as a Behavioral Science: Action, Decision, and the Analytic Revolution in Postwar American Philosophy"
Comment: Peter Galison (History of Science, Harvard)
**Precirculated** Email Jamie Cohen-Cole (jncohen@fas.harvard.edu) for a copy
Thursday, April 12, 5:30-7:30pm - MHS History of Women and Gender Seminar
Stephanie Jones-Rogers (Rutgers University)
Comment: Walter Johnson (Harvard University)
"'She thought she could find a better market': White Women and the Re-Gendering of the Antebellum New Orleans Slave Market and Slave-Trading Community"
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Friday, April 13, 2-4pm - Center for American Political Studies
Helen B. Marrow (Tufts University)
"Deserving to a Point: Unauthorized Immigrants in San Francisco's Universal Access Healthcare Model"
Tuesday, April 17, 4:00 - 5:30pm - W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Lecture Series
Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania)
"Ancestry Inferred from Maternal and Paternal Lineage"
Wednesday, April 18, 12:00-1:30pm - Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series
Tudor Parfitt (University of London)
"(De)Constructing Black Jews In Africa"
Wednesday, April 18, 4:00 - 5:30pm - W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Lecture Series
Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania)
"Ancestry Inferred from the Nuclear Genome"
Thursday, April 19, 3 pm - Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Robert Martello (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering)
“Paul Revere’s Last Ride: Patriotism, Craft and America’s Proto-Industrial Transition”
Thursday, April 19, 4:00-5:30pm - W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Lecture Series
Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania)
"Genetic Adaptation to African Environments"
Friday, April 20, 12:00-2:00pm - Harvard Center for American Political Studies
Martin Gilens (Princeton University)
"Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America"
Monday, April 23, 4pm - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Dean’s Lecture on the History of Women at Harvard in Honor of Harvard’s 375th Anniversary
Helen Horowitz (Emerita, Smith College)
"It’s Complicated: 375 Years of Women at Harvard"
Tuesday, April 24, 5:15-7:15pm - MHS Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Andrea Thabet (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Comment: Samuel Zipp (Brown University)
"'A Successful Integrated Development for the Central City': Constructing the Los Angeles Music Center, 1954-1967"
Wednesday, April 25, 12:00 -1:30pm - Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series
Joao Reis (Federal University of Bahia)
Title TBA
Wednesday, April 25, 4pm - Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
Margaret Weir (University of California at Berkeley)
“Creating Justice for the Poor in the New Metropolis”
Wednesday, April 25, 7:00-8:30pm - Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Rebecca Skloot
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Thursday, April 26, 4:10-6pm - Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
Arne Westad (London School of Economics)
“Restless Empire: The Historical Origins of China’s Foreign Policy Challenges Today”
Monday, April 30, 9:15am - Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology and Society, with support from the Warren Center.
“Human Nature in the Public Sphere: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
A symposium with John Carson (Michigan) and Baruch Fishhoff (Carnegie Mellon); comments from Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt), Andrew Jewett (Harvard), Natasha Schüll (MIT), and Jennifer Lerner (Harvard).
Tuesday, May 1, 2-4pm - Warren Center's Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Occupied Knowledges: 1968 and the Occupy Movement Now
A panel discussion featuring Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale), Linda Gordon (NYU), Jeffrey Stewart (UCSB), Mark Solovey (Toronto).
Tuesday, May 1, 5:15-7:15pm - MHS Early American History Seminar
Joanne van der Woude (Harvard University)
Comment: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University)
"The Classical Origins of the American Self: Puritans and Indians in New England Epics"
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have a question about the Warren Center, or if you have an event you would like to include in the listing.
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