平特五不中

2015-16 Events

The Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds at 平特五不中's

Inaugural Lecture

was given by听
Orlando Patterson


John Cowles Professor of Sociology
Harvard University


Freedom and Contestation in Western Culture: From the Ancient Greeks to America's Tea Party

Wednesday, April 13
4:30-6 pm,
平特五不中 Faculty Club, Ballroom


Orlando Patterson听is one of the world's leading historical sociologists. He is best known for his sweeping comparative studies of the history and meaning of slavery and freedom,听Slavery and Social Death听(1982) andFreedom in the Making of Western Culture听(1991);听Freedom听won the National Book Award for non-fiction. He has also published widely on the sociology of ethnicity and race, and on development in the Caribbean including his native Jamaica. He has served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Jamaica for听social policy and development, and has been recognized with the Gold Musgrave Medal for contributions to literature, the Sorokin Prize for distinguished contributions to scholarship in sociology, and the Ralphe Bunche Prize for the best work in political science studying ethnic and cultural pluralism. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of three novels.

10/26/2015: Global Antiquities Research Event. Kurt Raaflaub (USA), 鈥Globalizing ancient political thought: Early Greece and China.鈥

10/29/2015: Constitutional Studies Lecture. Laurel Weldon,鈥The Logic of Gender Justice: Body, Market, Church, and State in Global Context.鈥

11/05/2015: Global Antiquities Annual Lecture. Lothar von Falkenhausen (USA), 鈥China and the West - before the Silk Routes.鈥 .

11/12/2015: Transitions and Global Modernities. Carl Bon Tempo.

11/12/2015: Constitutional Studies Lecture. Richard Boyd.

11/23/2015: Transitions and Global Modernities. Ferenc Er艖s, 鈥The Refugee Crisis, Xenophobia, and Racism in Hungary.鈥

11/26/2015: Constitutional Studies Lecture. Philippe Lagasse, 鈥The Drifting Canadian Crown: Institutional Change and Judicial Interpretations of the Monarchy.鈥

12/14/2015: Global Justice Workshop. 鈥From beneficiaries to actors: Understanding displaced persons' roles in resolution processes.鈥 Announcement.

02/02/2016: Democracy, Space and Technology Opening Reception. 鈥Creative Dissent: Art of the Arab Uprisings.鈥 Announcement, poster.

02/04/2016: Constitutional Studies Lecture. Jenna Bednar (USA), 鈥Bottom-Up Federalism: How the States are Changing the Tenor of American Public Policy and Rights.鈥 .

02/10/2016: Global Antiquities Lecture. Carlos Nore帽a (USA), 鈥Provincial Spaces and Layered Monarchies in the Han and Roman Empires.鈥 .

02/16/2016: Global Antiquities Research Event. David Engels (Belgium), 鈥Parallel Lives? Caesar and Qin Shi Huang Di, Augustus and Han Gaozu.鈥

02/22/2016: Democracy, Space and Technology Inaugural Lecture. C. Greig Crysler (USA), 鈥Rethinking design activism: Scale, exchange and architectural education.鈥 Poster.

03/22/2016: Transitions and Global Modernities Lecture. Abdel Razzaq Takriti (USA), 鈥Arab Revolutionary Mobilisation in the Anti-Colonial Age: Dhufar, 1965-75.鈥 Poster.

03/31/2016: Constitutional Studies Debate. Eric Mack, 鈥Liberty, Individuality, and Self-Ownership.鈥

04/13/2016: 听Inaugural Lecture. Orlando Patterson (USA), 鈥Freedom and Contestation in Western Culture: From the Ancient Greeks to America's Tea Party.鈥 .

05/16/2016: Democracy, Space and Technology Conference. Benjamin Fortna (USA), 鈥School Time! Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Educational Globalization.鈥 .

2014 Events

10/22/2014: Global Antiquities Annual Lecture. Josiah Ober (USA), 鈥The Rise, Fall, and Immortality of Ancient Greece.鈥 .

10/22/2014: Global Antiquities Workshop. 鈥Citizens and Commoners in ancient Greece, Rome, and China.鈥澨

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