International Book Blitz 2024 (Full Event Video)

Date: Monday, April 22, 2024, 4:30pm
Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Fisher Family Commons, 1st Floor

Listen to Weatherhead Center authors present their global books in a café-style setting. A panel of Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates will each give a seven-minute “speed talk” about their recent book, launching us into compelling issues from around the world.

Opening Remarks

[00:00] Melani Cammett, Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Speakers

[01:56] Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
The Guilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2023)

[09:05] Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, Harvard Kennedy School.
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations (Harvard University Press, 2023)

[16:34] Sugata Bose, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.
Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2024)

[23:32] Michèle Lamont, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Seeing Others—and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

[31:16] Christina Davis, Director, Program on US-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations (Princeton University Press, 2023)

[38:52] Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023)