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A Panel Discussion: Choosing Schools Across National Contexts
April 16, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
Panelists: Adrienne Atterberry, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Syracuse University Siqi Tu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Bailey Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology, Princeton and...

Adaner Usmani (Harvard University)
September 10, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
From Plantation to Prison Co-Authored with John Clegg With a handful of exceptions, no country in world history has incarcerated as large a share of its population as does the contemporary United States. Yet while most research on punishment observes this...

Adaner Usmani (Harvard University)
September 22, 2023
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
In Person
From Plantation to Prison: The Origins of American Mass Incarceration John Clegg and Adaner Usmani With few exceptions, no country in world history has incarcerated as large a share of its population as does the contemporary United States. Yet while most...

Adom Getachew (University of Chicago)
April 22, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
Adom Getachew's talk will be hosted by Global Political Thought seminar of the Department of Government. Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link. You can also join the mailing list to automatically receive all Zoom invites.

Aja Antoine-Jones (University of California, Berkeley)
February 28, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
Residential Segregation and Tuberculosis Mortality in Atlanta, Georgia, 1920-1927 There is a long history linking segregation to excess mortality during the early twentieth century, but the mechanisms behind this relationship are often unclear. In this...

Andreja Siliunas, Harvard University
November 18, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
In Person
The Art of Westernizing: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Public Art in Post-Soviet Lithuania This talk is based on my dissertation research, which examines the global processes through which national symbols are constructed and...

Andrew Keefe (Harvard Sociology & Social Policy)
September 13, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in America and Brazil, 1804-1898 Why do gaps between law on the books and law in action emerge in some societies but not others? Consider plea bargaining in the...

Andrew Keefe (Harvard University)
February 4, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Zoom
Virtual
‘Whereby Murder of Malice Prepensed Is Made Treason’: How Punishment Turned Punitive in Early Modern Ireland Given the dearth of comparative-historical research on mass incarceration in the United States, studying punishment elsewhere before the twentieth...

Andrew Keefe (Harvard University)
February 23, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
In Person
Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in the American South and Brazil, 1804-1898 The Constitution promises people accused of serious crimes in the United States a host of procedural rights, including...

Angèle Christin (Stanford University)
November 20, 2020
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Zoom
Virtual
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press, 2020) When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web...

Anna Skarpelis (Harvard University)
March 26, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
Race in Parentheses What do we talk about when we don’t talk about race? France famously eschews mention of race or ethnicity in official statistics; Germany confines race talk to the Nazi dictatorship; and Japan has trouble officially accounting for the...