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WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
for December 4 - 8, 2017
Monday, December 4
4:00pm - Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations and President of the 3rd Committee (human rights affairs) of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. “Global Governance Talk: UN for Human Rights Protection.” Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
Tuesday, December 5
12:00pm - Silvia Sebastiani, Institute for Advanced Study. “Apes, Slaves, Global Markets: The Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates.” Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208, 53 Wall Street.
  • 3:30-4:00 pm Reception with Jenny Phillips
  • 4:00-5:30 pm Film Screening
  • 5:30-6:00 pm Talkback with Jenny Phillips
Osborn Memorial Laboratories, Room 202, 165 Prospect Street
4:00pm - Beatrice S. Bartlett, Yale University. “Saving China’s History: The Fate of the Qing Central Government Archives during the First Half of the Twentieth Century.” Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
Wednesday, December 6
12:00pm - J. Stephen Lansing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. “Islands of Order.” Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
7:00pm - Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film Screening. Chapayev (directed by Sergei and Georgii Vasil’ev, 1934). Chapaev tells the story of an average peasant during the Russian Civil War with an organic talent for leadership. In coupling the heroic register of socialist realism with down to earth humor, the film gives a romantic account of the tragic struggle that helped to define Soviet identity. Introduction by John Stachelski, Yale University. Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street.
Thursday, December 7
12:00pm - Miguel Hernan, Harvard University. "How Do We Learn What Works When We Don't Have an Experiment? An Algorithm for Causal Inference from Observational Data."Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Room A002, 77 Prospect Street.
12:30pm - Carlo Prato, Columbia University. “Electoral Accountability in Multi-Member Districts.” Rosenkranz Hall, Room 005, 115 Prospect Street.
4:00pm - Andris Saulītis, European University Institute in Florence. “Latvian Bankruptcy Process.” Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
4:30pm - Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist for the New York Times. “Thank you for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.” Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102, 63 High Street.
Friday, December 8
11:00am - Pablo Lapegna, University of Georgia. “The Argentine Soybean Boom: Agrochemical Exposure and Peasant Demobilization.” Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
12:00pm - Geoffrey E. Braswell, UC San Diego. "The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands." Anthropology Building, 10 Sachem Street.
12:00pm - “Iran: generational change, internal politics & foreign policy” with Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University, and Barbara Slavin, Director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council and columnist for Al-Monitor.com. Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium. 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
12:30pm - Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Centenary of the Russian Revolution: Who Cares?"Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208, 53 Wall Street.

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