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Levitt receives Hans-Robert Roemer Fellowship from the Oriental Institute of Beirut
January 2 2020
The Transnational Studies Initiative bids farewell
January 2 2020
Levitt contributes to exhibition catalogue for the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston
September 2 2019
Levitt named Institute for Creativity Distinguished Visitor at the Hong Kong Baptist University
September 2 2019
The Global (De) Centre plans its next winter school in Toledo, Spain in January 2020
August 29 2019
The GDC will host its second week-long school, “The Refugee Crisis?: A cross-regional comparison of challenges and opportunities,” organized by the department of sociology at the Pontificia University of Comillas. The program is open to graduate students and early junior professors and will take place in Toledo in January 2020. Stay tuned for more details.
Discussion with Peggy and others about their project submission to The Next Helsinki
December 17 2016
Enough Jane Eyre—it’s time to move to a truly global canon
October 27 2016
Levitt Keynote Speaker at Museum symposium in Finland
September 23 2016
BBC Radio podcast on British Museum
September 22 2016
Quoted in an article on Asia Pacific Daily site
May 29 2016
Peggy was interviewed for a piece about what museums are doing to respond to changing demographics and to get more people in the door. Peggy was interviewed for a piece about what museums are doing to respond to changing demographics and to get more people in the door. Pop culture exhibits are becoming more as museums try to attract “new, younger, more diverse audiences.” Read the article.
Recent interviews: both a podcast and a radio program in Sweden
May 29 2016
On BBC Radio 4’s “Thinking Allowed†Program
February 17 2016
Visit to the Philippines and Singapore
November 25 2015
Peggy’s January, 2016 visit to the Philippines and Singapore included a talk at the University of the Philippines, a roundtable discussion of her new book at the National University of Singapore, and a talk at Art Stage, the annual art fair that takes place during Singapore Art Week.
Interview on Tiching blog
November 12 2015
A piece entitled "Los niños y niñas no nacen con prejuicios, los aprenden"—an interview with Peggy—appeared on Tiching, a blog in Spanish that focuses on education in Latin America.
More Thoughts on the Role of Museums (Atlantic Magazine and National Journal)
November 9 2015
New book recommended in the New York Times
October 29 2015
In a recent article in the New York Times, Holland Cotter asks us to think about what museums should look like in the 21st century. His comments give voice to concerns shared in Levitt's Allegiances and Artifacts, the book he recommends in the article, ”Toward a Museum of the 21st Century.”
New Op-Ed piece on the future of museums
October 29 2015
Talk in Tokyo to international museum group meeting
October 29 2015
Levitt will deliver a talk entitled "Is There a Global Audience?" at the Annual Meeting of the International Committee on Museums and Collections of Modern Art held in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 7-10, 2015. The theme this year is "How Global Can Museums Be?"
Talk at Harvard Workshop
October 28 2015
Panel Discussion on Artifacts and Allegiances
September 21 2015
On October 1, Peggy Levitt will discuss her new book at the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris with Catherine Brice (Professor, Institut Universitaire de France, Université Créteil), Thomas Lacroix (Migrinter), Hilaire Multon (Musée de l’archéologie nationale), and Stéphanie Mahieu, who is in charge of the ethnographic collection at the Museum from 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. The museum is located at 293 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris.
Round Table at the Hermitage Amsterdam Museum
September 21 2015
Peggy Levitt and Susan Legene (professor of political history at Vrije University) will discuss their new books with Mirjam Shatanamawi of the National Museum of World Cultures (Amsterdam), and Paul Spies (the Amsterdam Museum) on September 28, 2015 from 1:00-2:30 PM at the Hermitage Museum.
New Book Published
May 25 2015
Various Lectures Planned to Mark the Publication of Artifacts and Allegiances in August 2015
May 12 2015
To mark the publication of her new book, Levitt will present her work at a range of venues in the coming months, including Harvard University, the European University Institute in Florence, and Sciencespo in Paris.
Visiting Professor at the American University of Cairo's Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
May 12 2015
In addition to meeting with students and faculty during her stay in March 2015, Levitt lectured on new conceptual and methodological approaches to migration studies and on her research on the role of cultural institutions in creating successful diverse societies.
Transnational Studies Initiative hosted Radcliffe Conference on Global Social Protection in February 2015
May 11 2015
New Volume of Ethnic and Racial Studies
October 3 2014
Honorary Doctorate from Maastricht University
January 22 2014
On January 10, 2014, Maastricht University in the Netherlands awarded Peggy Levitt an honorary doctorate. Before the ceremony took place, she delivered a lecture entitled “Migrating People, Migration Culture: Concepts, Methods, and Implications for Development” to an audience of over 100 students and scholars from various universities and alumni from the UM Honors Program.
Some Recently Published Articles
November 5 2013
2013: “Reform Through Mobility? Migration, Health, and Development in Gujarat, India.” With N. Rajaram in Migration Studies and “Rethinking Social Remittances and the Migration-Development Nexus from the Perspective of Time.” With Deepak Lamba-Nieves in International Migration Review.
2012: “What’s Wrong with Migration Scholarship? A Critique and a Way Forward.” in Identities.
New Article
November 9 2012
Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies
October 30 2012
Nineteenth-Century Transnationalism, Migration, and Religious Diasporas
Christian Songs, Religious Publics, and Urban Space in Lagos, Nigeria
Marianism among the Vietnamese Catholic in the US and Cambodia
Religion on the Edge
October 30 2012
A volume of essays that challenge conventional approaches to the sociology of religion, Religion on the Edge, will be published on November 21, 2012.
Named Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellow
June 12 2012
Peggy will be at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the summer of 2012.
Transnational Studies Initiative: Upcoming workshop speakers and venues for the spring semester
January 27 2012
Save the Dates.
(Please note: Most sessions will be held on the third Tuesday of the month, from 4-6 PM. Titles, abstracts and papers are forthcoming.)
February 21 (4-6 PM)
TSI Workshop
• Deborah Matzner (Wellesley College)
• Aisha Beliso-De Jesús (Harvard Divinity School)
Venue: Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge St. (Knafel Building), Room K262
March 27 (4-6 PM)
TSI Workshop
• Tamar Barzel (Wellesley College)
• Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis University)
Venue: Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St. (South Building), Room S153
April 24 (4-6 PM)
TSI Workshop
• Valentine Moghadam (Northeastern University)
• Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT)
Venue: Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St. (South Building), Room K262
Information for attendees. For any newcomers, we distribute materials to be read before we meet (anything from a published work to a very rough outline of a new project). Then each speaker has about 15 minutes to talk about how his or her work addresses our collective questions (listed below). We invite researchers working on a range of topics from a variety of disciplines. The only requirement is that they be working on something transnational or using a transnational perspective. We hope that at the end of this year, some of the speakers from last year and this will participate in some sort of collective writing project.
Collective Questions
a. What is moving and what is blocked? What counts as motion?
b. What are characteristics of the landscapes through which things move and how do they influence movement (including channels, pathways, spaces, place s, scales)
c. How do we study culture in motion? What are the problems in your field that you would like to resolve?
d. What kind of social change happens when things move?
e. What kind of citizens or memberships are created?
f. How does motion affect the way sovereignty and development are thought of and practiced?
For further information contact Deepak Lamba-Nieves or visit the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs website. Follow the TSI on Facebook.