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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.
Levitt named Institute for Creativity Distinguished Visitor at the Hong Kong Baptist University
September 2 2019
Levitt returns to the Hong Kong Baptist University for a second time as the Institute for Creativity Distinguished Visitor. Among her several projects is to host a conference on
Rethinking Western Canons: Social Theory in Asia in December 2019.
Levitt contributes to exhibition catalogue for the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston
September 2 2019
Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art will open a new exhibition,
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, in October 2019. Levitt’s contribution to the exhibition catalogue, “Words that Make Worlds” explores how the terms we use to talk about migration serve particular social and political interests, influence public opinion and policy-making, and help determine the entitlements and protections offered to some groups and denied to others.
Levitt Keynote Speaker at Museum symposium in Finland
September 23 2016
On September 22, 2016, Peggy delivered a keynote address at the [Finnish] National Board of Antiquities-sponsored event “Museum Theme Days: Future. Now.” which took place over two days in Helsinki.
BBC Radio podcast on British Museum
September 22 2016
Peggy recently participated in a program broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (9/8/16) entitled “Missing Continents at the British Museum,” along with host Anthony Gormley, the museum’s new director, and a former trustee. Now available online, they talk about at how this national museum with a world collection must make its holdings accessible to a global audience.
Stream program.
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.
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.
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.
