Rebecca Marchiel, Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi: "It's Our Money: Defending Financial Common Sense in a Collapsing New Deal Order."
Bio: Rebecca Marchiel is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, specializing in urban history, political history, and the history of American capitalism. Her first...
Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
"Fragile Universals: The Making of Racial Hierarchy in the League of Nations”
To order a lunch, email Monnikue McCall (momccall@fas.harvard.edu) by 5pm on Thursday, April 14. Include in your message an indication of any dietary restriction.
Title: "The Perilous State of Afghan Reconstruction"
Abstract: Fourteen years and $113 billion into America's attempt to create a secure, stable, and developing Afghanistan, the balance sheet on reconstruction features some successes, but also weak points and failures. Despite advances in schooling, life expectancy, communications, governance, and other areas, Afghanistan remains plagued with poverty, illiteracy, corruption, incapacity, and--partly because of these conditions--a stubborn insurgency. Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been stolen, lost, or wasted for lack of...
Gabrielle Clark, PhD in Law and Society, New York University: "Bound to Freedom: Deportable Labor and the Law Under American Capitalism (1904-2015)"
Bio: Gabrielle holds a PhD in Law & Society from NYU in 2014 and has previously been a Max Weber Fellow in Law at the European University Institute in Florence Italy. She has published articles on labor and migration in the Journals of Social History and Antipode, and a book chapter on NAFTA investment law in an edited volume entitled Property Rights...
Lily Geismer, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College: "Agents of Change: The Clintons and the Long History of Microfinance in the United States and the World"
Gasson Hall is located in the center of the Middle Campus across from the Admission Office in Devlin Hall.
Colm Tóibín is the author of eight novels, including Brooklyn and Nora Webster and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family. He has been three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; his play The Testament of Mary was nominated for a Tony Award in 2013. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books and Irene...
Martin Giraudeau, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
"Habitus & Prospectus: The Business Plans of Pierre Samuel & Éleuthère Irénée Dupont de Nemours (1797-1802)"
Martin is a historian of sciences and technology, who focuses on the sciences and technologies of business, namely management and accounting. In his PhD in Sociology, which he received from the...
