This new seminar series, chaired by Daniel Carpenter, Peter A. Hall, Kathleen Thelen and Daniel Ziblatt, will discuss emerging new scholarship on comparative and American politics in the broad tradition of Comparative Historical Analysis.
Faculty members and graduate students from Harvard, MIT and other universities are welcome. We hope some of you will want to be regular participants. We will meet about once every three weeks. The normal format will be one in which we post a paper on the CES website and CIS websites (www.ces.fas.harvard.edu; web.mit.edu/cis/calendar/) accessible from the Calendar entry for the session, which participants will read beforehand, so we can begin with a discussant and then move directly to discussion with the author without a formal presentation. For information about seminar logistics or to be added to our mailing list, please write to Kate Searle (ksearle@mit.edu).
November 20 (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE!)
Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, on "African Chiefdoms and Institutional Resilience: Public Goods and Private Strategies."
Discussant: Lily Tsai, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Location: Cabot Room, Center for European Studies at Harvard (27 Kirkland Street)
Time: 4:15-6pm (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE!)
September 18
Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society, on "Re-forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy."
The discussant is Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at MIT. There will be no presentation. The seminar will move directly to discussion, assuming participants have read the paper.
Location: Cabot Room, Center for European Studies at Harvard (27 Kirkland Street)
Time: 2:15-4pm
October 9
James Mahoney, Northwestern University, on " After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research".
Commentator will be Prof. John Gerring of Boston University.
Location: Lucian W. Pye Conference Room, MIT Center for International Studies, Building E40, 1 Amherst Street, Room 496
Time: 2:15-4pm
November 20 (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE!)
Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, on "African Chiefdoms and Institutional Resilience: Public Goods and Private Strategies."
Discussant: Lily Tsai, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Location: Cabot Room, Center for European Studies at Harvard (27 Kirkland Street)
Time: 4:15-6pm (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE!)
February 12, 2010
Paul Frymer, Princeton University, on "Building an American Empire: Territorial Expansion and Indian Removal, 1787-1850."
Commentator: TBA.
Location: TBA
Time: 2:15-4pm
May 7 , 2010
Sigrun Kahl, Yale University. Title TBA.
Commentator: TBA.
Location: TBA
Time: 2:15-4pm