Peggy Levitt sociologist, author and professor

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The Transnational Studies Initiative bids farewell

January 2 2020

Founded by Peggy Levitt and Sanjeev Khagram in 2001 at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center for Non-profit Organizations at Harvard University, and co-directed over the years by Tamara Kay and Jocelyn Viterna, TSI hosted numerous seminars and conferences, generated research, trained students, and produced a film to demonstrate the analytical purchase of using a transnational lens. We are grateful to all who joined us and will continue this work in other forums. 
 

Levitt receives Hans-Robert Roemer Fellowship from the Oriental Institute of Beirut

January 2 2020

The Oriental Institute of Beirut, one of ten German Humanities Institutes funded by the Max Weber Foundation, awarded Levitt the Hans-Robert Roemer Fellowship to support her research on cultural and intellectual inequality. She spent the fall of 2018 in Lebanon doing research on her new book. 
 

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.