Event on Pernicious Prejudice has started! Watch us on the livestream: youtube.com/live/VZ4dNaXsC…

Join us **TODAY** at 4:30pm in Tsai Auditorium for this in-person event on antisemitism and Islamophobia, part of the Civil Discourse Initiative at Harvard.

Speakers: Jeffrey Kopstein Nazita Lajevardi Kassra Oskooii Sabine von Mering

Event details: wcfia.harvard.edu/event/special-…

Portugal celebrated 50 years of democracy last month, but has somehow failed to lift the economic conditions of its citizens, despite long stability and access to EU markets. Fellow L. Vinhas de Souza explains why. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

ICYMI. How did free trade turn into the bête noire of both right-wing nationalists and the left when it was once the hope of progressive reformers? project-syndicate.org/commentary/fre…

A big thank you to all our authors who gave 7-minute speed talks on their new books—no easy feat! Watch their book talks on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/2W3JzcVFjp0?si…

Michele Lamont Meg Rithmire Sugata Bose Merilee Grindle, Ya-Wen Lei, Christina Davis

I sat down to respond to a handful of questions on my latest research. That conversation is now live on Indian Express without a paywall!

Many thanks to Adrija Roychowdhury for recognizing the public value of this academic research.

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Check out our events for the week of April 28, 2024 ow.ly/G4as50Rp7Bn

In a 2022 essay, Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks explained how women’s participation strengthens mass movements—and how patriarchal authoritarians, mindful of popular threats to their rule, seek to exclude women from the political sphere.
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With growing displacement and negative attitudes towards migrants, can bringing locals and migrants together in classrooms improve attitudes? Our study (w. Jason Lyall) in Afghanistan shows this contact (lasting 3-6 mos) is not enough.

AJPS
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In a time where it is painfully evident whose life is valued and whose is not.

The Value of a Colonial Subject's Life in British India
Hardeep Dhillon TIME madebyhistory
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The end of an era: Yesterday, historian Charles Maier taught his last class Harvard History and presided over a wonderful series of graduate student papers in the WIGH Harvard seminar with Sven Beckert. So grateful for many wonderful discussions with him over the years.

Delighted to have spent another year in interdisciplinary conversation and community with our brilliant Grad Student Associates Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

(And thank you me Ann and Cory for all you do to make that possible)

Join us for the second session of our series “Crisis in Sri Lanka,” with speakers Anushani Alagarajah (Anushani Alagarajah), Nimmi Gowrinathan (@nimmideviarchy), and Ambika Satkunanathan (@ambikasat), and moderator Phuong Pham from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Please RSVP: bit.ly/crisis-in-sri-…

It seems like an appropriate day to celebrate the new book by Nina Guilbeault on the modern vegan movement! Happy #EarthDay2024 ow.ly/UUQA50Rbu4R

Check out our events for the week of April 21, 2024 ow.ly/oOrC50RjwQi

In a new book, Doktora Amy Austin Holmes uncovers the history—from creation to today—of a brave region in Syria in its path toward semi-autonomy. ow.ly/9N5B50R9nLA

Join us in person on Wed 5/1 for a panel on how leading social scientists study key forms of prejudice—specifically antisemitism and Islamophobia—in the US context. Event details at ow.ly/pq4P50ReXhw

Cosponsored by Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics CJS Harvard CMES CAPSHarvard

Anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte flips the script in her new book and follows the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.
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