CID Events :: November 2008
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Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein, 79 JFK Street at the Harvard Kennedy School
Tuesday November 4, 2008
Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar
9:00-11:00am
1st Presenter: Adam Henry, Doctoral Fellow
Title: Social Networks and the Challenge of Learning for Sustainability in Regional Planning
2nd Presenter: Yu Wang, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science
Title: Pushing Grain for Water: The Sustainability Challenges to Hani Highlanders' Agro-Ecosystem in Southwest China
Contact: Nancy Dickson at nancy_dickson@harvard.edu
Tuesday November 4, 2008
Harvard/MIT Economic Growth and Development Workshop
"Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty"
2:45-4:00pm
**Harvard Hall Room 104
Presenter: Professor. Omer Moav; Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Economics at the Royal Holloway University of London
Research Interests: Economic Growth and Development, Income Inequality and Mobility,
Human Capital and Fertility
Contact: Badshavellie _Naicker@ksg.harvard.edu
Thursday November 6, 2008
The Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series
12:30-2:00pm (lunch served)
**CGIS, Bowie Vernon Room
Presenter: Davide Cantoni (Harvard University)
Title: "Was Max Weber Right After All? Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation
In the German Lands"
Contact: Rachel_mccleary@ksg.harvard.edu
Thursday November 6, 2008
China Project Seminar
3:30pm
**Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"Accelerating Resource Consumption despite Decelerating Population Growth: The Hidden Role of Household Proliferation in China."
Professor LIU Jianguo (Jack), Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard China Project, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Sustainability Science Program, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Contact: Chris Nielsen at nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu
Friday November 7, 2008
CID Student Lunch Seminar
11:45am-1:00pm
Guest Speaker: Willy Foote, President and Founder of Root Capital (www.rootcapital.org)
Contact: cid_events@harvard.edu
Friday November 14, 2008
CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
11:45am-1:00pm
Guest Speaker: Dan Erikson, author of Cuba Wars, and Senior Advisor on US Policy and Director of Caribbean Programs at the Inter-American Dialogue
Contact: cid_events@harvard.edu
Friday November 14, 2008
From Poverty to Power
3:00pm, Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School
Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam GB, presents his new book. Professor Lant Pritchett will provide the response.
Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center and CID
Contact: cid_events@harvard.edu
Tuesday November 18, 2008
Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar
9:00-11:00am
Presenter: Avinash Kishore, Doctoral Fellow and Vicki Norberg-Bohm Fellow
Title: Energy-Irrigation Nexus in India
Contact: Nancy Dickson at nancy_dickson@harvard.edu
Tuesday November 18, 2008
Frontiers in Sustainable Development Seminar
9:00-10:30am
Presenter: Ben Cousins, Professor and Director, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Title: 'Viability' and sustainability in Southern Africa's Land Reform: Contested Paradigms and Policies
Hosts: Pauline Peters and William Clark, Sustainability Science Program and Committee on African Studies
Contact: Nancy Dickson at nancy_dickson@harvard.edu
Tuesday November 18, 2008
Harvard/MIT Economic Growth and Development Workshop
2:45-4:00pm
**Harvard Hall Room 104
Presenter: Professor Joseph Kaboski; Ph.d Economics
Field of Interest: Growth and Development, Labor and Demography and Applied
Microeconomics
Contact: Badshavellie _Naicker@ksg.harvard.edu
Tuesday November 18, 2008
Networks and Economic Development Seminar: Networks in Biology
4:10 -5:30pm
Contact: Cesar Hidalgo at cesar_hidalgo@ksg.harvard.edu
Thursday November 20, 2008
The Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series
12:30-2:00pm (lunch served)
**CGIS, Bowie Vernon Room
Presenter: Gilat Levy (London School of Economics) and Ronny Razin (London School of
Economics)
Title: "A Theory of Religious Organizations."
Contact: Rachel_mccleary@ksg.harvard.edu
Friday November 21, 2008
CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
11:45am-1:00pm
Guest Speaker: Naresh Singh, Executive Director, Legal Empowerment for the Poor
Contact: cid_events@harvard.edu
Monday November 24, 2008
*Deadline* for CID January Term Travel Grants
Funding for travel to developing countries as part of PAE/SYPA.
For more information Visit: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidstudents/jangrants.html
Contact: jennifer_gala@harvard.edu
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar
9:00-11:00am
1st Presenter: Kira Matus, Doctoral Fellow
Title: Innovation for Sustainable Development: Green Chemistry in China
2nd Presenter: Jack Liu, Visiting Scholar
Title: Global Household Dynamics and Implications for Environmental Sustainability
Contact: Nancy Dickson at nancy_dickson@harvard.edu
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Harvard/MIT Economic Growth and Development Workshop
2:45-4:00pm
**Harvard Hall Room 104
Presenter: Professor. Prof. Andrew Newman
Professor of Economics at Boston University, Research Fellow of the CEPR in London
Research and Teaching interests: Economic theory, Economic development, and Income
distribution.
Contact: Badshavellie _Naicker@ksg.harvard.edu
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Networks and Economic Development Seminar: Networks in Economy
4:10 -5:30pm
Contact: Cesar Hidalgo at cesar_hidalgo@ksg.harvard.edu
CID Events :: December 2008
Tuesday December 2, 2008
Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar
9:00-11:00am
Presenter: Isabelle Anguelovski, Doctoral candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Environmental Policy and Planning Group, MIT
Title: Community Mobilization for Urban Agriculture in the Global North and South: An analysis of the tensions between Environmental Justice, Food Security, and Urban Development
Contact Nancy Dickson at nancy_dickson@harvard.edu
Tuesday December 2, 2008
Harvard/MIT Economic Growth and Development Workshop
2:45-4:00pm
**Harvard Hall Room 104
Presenter: Dr. Eliana La Ferrara
Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Italy
Primary Interests: Development Economics, Public Economics and Political Economics
Contact: Badshavellie _Naicker@ksg.harvard.edu
Thursday December 4, 2008
The Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series
12:30-2:00pm (lunch served)
**New Location**
**Littauer Center, Room M16 (North Yard)**
Presenters: David Clingingsmith (Case Western Reserve), Asim Khwaja (Harvard University), and
Michael Kremer (Harvard University).
Title: "Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering,"
Contact: Rachel_mccleary@ksg.harvard.edu
Friday December 5, 2008
CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
11:45am-1:00pm
Guest Speaker: Andrea Rossi, Director Human Rights Measurement, Carr Center, Harvard Kennedy School.
Contact: cid_events@harvard.edu
Tuesday December 9, 2008
Harvard/MIT Economic Growth and Development Workshop
2:45-4:00pm
**Harvard Hall Room 104
Presenter: Professor. Rebecca Thornton: Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, 2008, University of Michigan and NIA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Population Studies Center
Contact: Badshavellie _Naicker@ksg.harvard.edu
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