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Friday, November 18, 2016

Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: A Two-Day International Workshop
Session 4: Inclusionary Policies in Developing Countries
9:00am - 10:30am
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 4: Inclusionary Policies in Developing Countries
  • Lázaro I. Rodríguez – United Nations Consultant; Transformatorio Cultural para el Desarrollo
  • Ajantha Subramanian – Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University
  • Babatunde Omilola – Head of Development Planning and Inclusive Growth, United Nations Development Program, New York
  • Alberto D. Cimadamore – Scientific Director, Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, University of Bergen and International Social Science Council
  • Chair Brian Palmer-Rubin – Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Session 5: Rights as Inclusion Mechanism
10:45am - 12:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 5: Rights as Inclusion Mechanism
  • John C. Mubangizi – Professor of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Lucie E. White – Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Shreya Atrey – Max Weber Fellow 2016-2017, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
  • Frank Dobbin – Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Maria Petmesidou – Professor of Social Policy, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Chair Jacqueline Bhabha – Director of Research & Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, FXB Center of for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
9:00am - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
International Conference - Day 1 Sessions — Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
  • Seyla Benhabib – Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
  • ​Jay Bernstein  – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
  • Maeve Cooke – Associate Professor of German Social and Political Thought, University College Dublin
  • Konstancja Duff – Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex
  • Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
  • Brian O'Connor – Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin
  • Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University
  • Michael Rosen – Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University
  • Welcome Remarks by Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University and Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History; Faculty Affiliate , Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Friday Lunch
The Rise of Risky Derivatives: Chief Risk Officers, CEOs, and Fund Managers
2:15pm - 4:00pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800 — The Rise of Risky Derivatives: Chief Risk Officers, CEOs, and Fund Managers
  • Frank Dobbin – Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Commentary by J. Nicholas Ziegler – Professor (Research) of International and Public Affairs, Watson Institute, Brown University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Saturday, November 19, 2016

​Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
9:00am - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
International Conference - Day 2 Sessions — ​Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
  • Asaf Angermann – Postdoc Assoc Judaic Studies and Philosophy, Yale University
  • Gordon Finlayson – Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex
  • Lydia Goehr – Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
  • Espen Hammer – Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
  • ​Axel Honneth – Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University
  • Rahel Jaeggi – Profossor of Philosophy, Humboldt University
  • Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
  • Iain Macdonald – Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal
  • Lambert Zuidervaart – Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Monday, November 21, 2016

The Dissolution of the USSR: 25 Years Later
4:45pm - 6:30pm
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
The Dissolution of the USSR: 25 Years Later
  • Gennady Burbulis – First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (1991-1992)
  • Andrei Kozyrev – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1990-1996)
  • Leonid Kravchuk – President of Ukraine (1991-1994)
  • Stanislau Shushkevich – Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus (1991-1994)
  • Chair Mark Kramer – Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Schumpeter as Play-Doh: Herbert Giersch and the Intellectual Origins of the Competition State
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe — Schumpeter as Play-Doh: Herbert Giersch and the Intellectual Origins of the Competition State
  • Dieter Plehwe – Senior Research Fellow, Inequality and Social Policy Research Unit, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
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