Agenda: February 7–8, 2019

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Thursday, February 7

12:15 p.m. Welcoming remarks  

Michèle Lamont, Center Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Faculty Associate. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

12:30–2:30 p.m. PANEL ONE: US FOREIGN POLICY 

Chair: Stephen Peter Rosen, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on International Security. Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

• Philip Balson (History), Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Strategy and Credibility: How American and British Visions for Southeast Asia Evolved in Crisis and Framed Escalation in Vietnam (1961–1964). 
• Sunaina Danziger (History), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Nazis in America: The Secret CIA Programs that Shaped the New Global Order. 
• Richard Yarrow (Joint Concentration in History and Philosophy), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Nationalism and Politicization of World War I-era European Scientists. 

2:30–2:45 p.m. Coffee break outside of S020

2:45–4:45 p.m. PANEL TWO: INEQUALITY POLITICS AND POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA  

Chair: Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

• Michelle Borbon (Social Studies with Secondary in History), Julian Sobin Fellow. Deconstructing Corruption Discourses in the 2018 Sonoran Elections.  
• Isabel Lapuerta (Joint Concentration in Music and Anthropology), Frank M. Boas Fellow. Music, Tourism, and Identity: Cuba’s Tourism Industry as a Site for Exporting, Preserving, and Reimagining National Identity, and How Its Musicians Navigate These Relationships.
• Luca-Slavomir Istodor-Berceanu (Women, Gender & Sexuality), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. LGBT Activism and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Guyana. 

4:45–6:00 p.m. Reception outside of S020

Friday, February 8

8:00–8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast outside of S020

8:30–10:30 a.m. PANEL THREE: GLOBAL ACCESS TO RIGHTS ISSUES

Chair: Paul Chang, Interim Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

• Molly Leavens (Special Concentration in Food and the Environment), Rogers Family Research Fellow. Corporate Responsibility, Social Outcomes, and Environmental Implications in the Global Cacao Market. 
• Christina Qiu (Applied Mathematics), Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Simmons Family Research Fellow; Undergraduate Research Intern. The Role of Administrative Assistance in Labor Outcomes for Roma Informal Settlement Residents: Results from the MOUS Program in Grenoble, France.
• Rohan Shah (Social Studies), Rogers Family Research Fellow. Water Price, Community, and Technology: The Impact and Meaning of ‘Water ATMs’ in the Mathare Valley of Nairobi.

10:30–10:45 a.m. Coffee break

10:45–12:45 p.m. PANEL FOUR: COMPARATIVE ISSUES OF IDENTITY AND ACCESS

Chair: Michael Stein, Faculty Associate. Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School.

• Elsie Tellier (Sociology), Undergraduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. The Factors that Impact the Gap in Treatment for Indigenous Canadian Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Manitoban Child Welfare System.
• Michelle Liang (Joint Concentration in History & Literature and Women, Gender & Sexuality), Frank M. Boas Fellow. A Transnational Comparative Analysis of Queer Rights Activism. 
• Wonik Son (History), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. UN Humanitarian Images and the Construction of Global Disability.

12:45–1:45 p.m. Lunch provided outside of S020

1:45–3:45 p.m. PANEL FIVE: CURRENT ISSUES OF COLONIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Yuhua Wang, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.

• Raquel Leslie (Joint Concentration in Government and East Asian Studies), Rogers Family Research Fellow. Towards the “China Model” of Development? Ethnopolitics and Party System Stability in Africa.
• Molly Nolan (History and Literature and African Studies), Undergraduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Inequality and Inclusion. Open Spaces: Environmental Racism, Settler Colonialism, and the Testing Fields of South Australia. 
• Alexandra Shpitalnik (Government and Slavic Literatures & Cultures), Frank M. Boas Fellow. Challenges to NGO Development in Modern Russia: The Plight of Socially Oriented Organizations in a Post-Soviet Hybrid Regime.

3:45–4:00 p.m. Coffee break

4:00–6:00 p.m. PANEL SIX: HISTORICAL ISSUES OF COLONIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Mark C. Elliott, Faculty Associate. Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of History; Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University.

• Arthur Schott Lopes (History with Secondary in Classical Civilizations), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. A Tropical Homer: Reinterpreting Gilberto Freyre’s Casa-Grande & Senzala, 1902–1940.
• Sierra Nota (Joint Concentration in History and Slavic Languages and Literatures), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Make Way for the Railway: City Development and the Trans-Siberian Railroad. 
• Ziqi “Jules” Qiu (Joint Concentration in History and Mathematics), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. "Friendship or Hostility, Trade or War”: The 1832 Voyage of the Lord Amherst. 

6:00 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS

Theodore J. Gilman, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.