Our 2011-12 program on “The Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State” is now concluded. Please check back in late August, when we will announce our fall 2012 schedule of events.
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Past Events
Monday, January 23, 4-6pm
Mark Solovey (University of Toronto)
“Social Science Funding under Siege in Conservative Times: The Case of the U.S. National Science Foundation during the 1970s”
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Monday, January 30, 4-6pm
Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia)
“Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self: Merle Tuve's Cold War”
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Wednesday, February 15, 4-6pm
Tanisha Fazal (Columbia University)
“Declaring War and Peace”
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050
Thursday, February 23, 4:30pm
Gerald L. Neuman (Harvard University)
Human Rights, Migration, and Law
Presented by the Committee on Ethnic Studies
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Belfer Case Study Room
Monday, March 5, 4-6pm
Jamie Cohen-Cole (Harvard University)
“Human Nature, Cognitive Science, and the Reaction of the New Right, 1956-1975”
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Wednesday, March 7, 4-6pm
Faculty roundtable on ““Is All History Global?”
Panelists include David Armitage, Joyce Chaplin, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Michael McCormick
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar
Lower Library, Robinson Hall
Thursday-Friday, March 8, 9
Religion and Civilization in International History
The twelfth annual graduate student conference on international history, presented with support from the Warren Center.
More information at www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
Monday, March 19, 4-6pm
Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin)
"Where Blood and Latex Flow: Expeditionary Science and the Growth of Development in Liberia"
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Monday, March 26, 4-6pm
Adam Nelson (University of Wisconsin)
“Empire of Knowledge: Nationalism, Internationalism, and American Scholarship, 1770-1830” (excerpt of work-in-progress)
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Wednesday, March 28, 4-6pm
Frank Costigliola (University of Connecticut)
“The Emotions of George Kennan”
Presented by Harvard’s International and Global History Seminar
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050
Monday, April 2, 4-6pm
Richard Teichgraeber (Tulane University).
"The Arrival of 'Up-or-Out' Tenure: James B. Conant and the 'Tempest at Harvard,' 1936-39"
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Monday, April 9, 4-6pm
Mary Furner (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"The Renewal of Intention: Knowledge and Civic Discourse in the Long Progressive Era"
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Tuesday, April 17, 6pm
"Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North"
Film screening and conversation with Evelyn Higginbotham (Harvard), Katrina Brown (filmmaker), James Perry (The Tracing Center), and Katherine Stevens (Harvard).
Presented by the Harvard and Slavery Research Project, with support from the Warren Center, Du Bois Institute, History Department, American Civilization Program, and the Program on the Study of Capitalism.
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Monday, April 30, 9:15am
“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).
Presented by the Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology and Society, with support from the Warren Center.
Basement Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, May 1, 2-4pm
Occupied Knowledges: 1968 and the Occupy Movement Now
A panel discussion featuring Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale), Linda Gordon (NYU), Jeffrey Stewart (UCSB), Mark Solovey (Toronto).
Presented by the Warren Center’s workshop on the Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State
Emerson Hall, Room 210
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