Tag: Globalization

  • Nation & World

    The world according to Conrad

    Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”

    6 minutes
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    Tracing migration’s impact

    A symposium at the Harvard Global Institute examined the ethical, legal, social, cultural, and economic implications of migration.

    5 minutes
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    Divided by trade

    UPenn political scientist Diana Mutz spoke at Radcliffe on the gap between how citizens and economists view global trade.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Handmade horrors

    A new study has documented “slavelike” conditions in India’s handmade carpet industry, the largest single source of carpets sold in some of the most well-known U.S. retailers.

    7 minutes
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    Harvard Thinks Big: “Religion in the Age of Pluralism” – Diana Eck

    Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society on what everyone needs to know in a new era of faith and globalization.

    1 minute
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    Spotlight on the international

    Harvard is one of the world’s most international universities, with students and faculty from around the world. Overseas research and study abroad opportunities abound.

    6 minutes
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    The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective

    Disco, drugs, and decadence? Not that 1970s. This book, by Harvard mainstays Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, and Erez Manela focuses on the decade that introduced the world to the phenomenon of “globalization,” as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways.

    1 minute
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    David Maybury-Lewis, eminent anthropologist and scholar, 78

    David Maybury-Lewis, a Harvard anthropologist who served as a tireless advocate for indigenous cultures and peoples, died Dec. 2 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 78.

    7 minutes
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    Sovereignty vs. global responsibility

    As part of Harvard Business School’s International Week, an annual event to highlight the cultural diversity at the School, Srgjan Kerim, president of the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, delivered the keynote address at the Spangler Auditorium on Oct. 25.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Modern Girl Project views women between the wars

    When American women won the right to vote in 1919, the logical question was, What next? Suffragists had the answer ready: full enjoyment of civil and domestic life for women, equal to that of men. But suffragists found out that what was next was not much. It would be decades before American women gained anything…

    7 minutes