Past Conferences and Workshops
2011–2012
August 26–27, 2011
A Research Agenda for the History of Nonalignment
Director: Bradley Simpson, assistant professor of history and international affairs
October 14–15, 2011
Uncertain Paradigms: Ethnography and Theory
Directors: John Borneman, professor of anthropology, and Abdella Hammoudi, professor of anthropology
November 4–5, 2011
The Analects: A Western Han Text?
Director: Martin Kern, professor of East Asian studies
December 2–3, 2011
Political Membership: Global Histories
Director: Linda J. Colley, Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History
March 1–2, 2012
New Worlds, New Philosophies: Discovery and Knowledge in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800
Directors: Sarah Rivett, assistant professor of English, and Nigel Smith, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature and professor of English
April 20–21, 2012
Language, Culture, and Power: The Linguistic Field in Early Twentieth-Century China
Director: Janet Chen, assistant professor of history and East Asian Studies and Christian Gauss Fund University Preceptor
May 4–6, 2012
Objects of Affection: Towards a Materiology of Emotions Interdisciplinary Conference
Director: Serguei Oushakine, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Anthropology, and Acting Director of the Program for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Cosponsored by PIIRS, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Eberhard L. Faber Fund of the Humanities Council, University Center for Human Values in honor of James A. Moffett ’29, and the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies
May 11–12, 2012
Visualizing Asia in the Modern World: A Conference on Image-Driven Scholarship
Director: Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies and professor of history and East Asian studies Cosponsored with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Council of the Humanities, the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of History, and MIT Visualizing Cultures.
2010–2011
September 24, 2010
Historical Legacies in Communist and Postcommunist Eurasia: State Executives, Property, Law, and Geopolitics since the 1970s
Directors: Directors: Mark Beissinger, professor of politics and acting director, PIIRS; and Stephen Kotkin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
October 8–9, 2010
The Modernist City in the Age of Globalization: Chandigarh
Directors: Esther da Costa Meyer, associate professor, art and archaeology; and Beatriz Colomina, professor of architecture
December 2–4, 2010
The Itinerant Languages of Photography
Directors: Gabriela Nouzeilles, chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literaturesl; and Eduardo Cadava, professor of English
March 11–12
Ethnicity and Race in Latin America
Director: Edward Telles, professor of sociology
April 21–22, 2011
Historical Legacies in Communist and Postcommunist Eurasia
Exploratory Seminar Follow-up Conference
Directors: Mark Beissinger, professor of politics and acting director, PIIRS; and Stephen Kotkin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
May 13–14, 2011
Benito Arias Montano (1527–1598) Biblical Scholarship and the Late Renaissance
Directors: Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Adam Beaver, assistant professor of history
May 18–19, 2011
Texts and Textbooks in South and Southeast Asia: Rethinking Asian Circulations
Directors: Michael Laffan, professor of history, and Bhavani Raman, assistant professor of history and David L. Rike University Preceptor in History
2009–2010
August 27–28, 2009
Migrant Youth and Children of Migrants in a Globalized World
Directors: Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies; professor of sociology and public affairs; and director, Program in Latino Studies; and Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; and director, Center for Research on Child Well-Being.
2008–2009
August 31–September 2, 2008
Institutions and Development in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis
Directors: Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, and Lori Smith, graduate student, Department of Sociology
2007–2008
March 28–29, 2008
Reception of Netherlandish Art in Asia in the Early Modern Period
Director: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology
