Francesco Gérali is a research professional specialized in the history of the early oil industry. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of science in 2009, and since then he worked as research fellow in academic libraries and special research...

Daud Ali is Associate Professor and Chair of the South Asian Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania. Using epigraphical and literary sources, with a critical perspective on the historiography and innovative theoretical approaches, he has...

A specialist of the history of the relations between Iceland and the Soviet Union and a former journalist, Jón Ólafsson studied political philosophy at the University of Columbia, where he defended his doctoral thesis on John Dewey in 1999. He was...

Robert Rozehnal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion Studies and the founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Duke University, and a M.A. in South...

Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo Conferences New Forms of Dalit Cultural Assertion: rejecting buffalo sacrifice in South India Madigas, one of the most discriminated former Untouchable...

Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California, Directeur d’études invitée à l’EHESS). Conferences  Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntax of Names and Count NounsWednesday 14 June, 15:30-17:30- Institut Jean Nicod - Ecole...

Drazen Prelec holds appointments in the Department of Economics and in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. His research deals with the psychology and neuroscience of decision-making, including behavioral economics and neuroeconomics,...

Burt Hopkins’s (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage) main research interest is the philosophical foundation of the transformation of knowledge that began in the 16th century with the philosophical advent of...

Major research interest of Dr. Zhi-peng Lin is intellectual history of early China. In the field, he has published more than 40 pieces of paper and two books:Studies on the School of Song Xingand Lost Philosophical Fragment of the Warring States-...

Ahmet Ersoy is Associate Professor at the History Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. His research involves the cultural history of the Late Ottoman Empire with a special focus on visuality and its links with rising discourses of locality...

CONFERENCESAin’t Gonna Pay for War No More: Tax Resistance and Anti-War Movements in the 20th century U.S.In 1971 noted American activist and member of the “Chicago 7”, David Dellinger wrote: “There are two kinds of people who don’t pay income taxes...

Dr. Delia Ungureanu is Assistant Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and  assistant professor of literary theory in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of From Paris to Tlön:...

David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and is the founder of the Institute for...

ConferencesEste seminario examina el proceso de formación de un sistema para las artes visuales en la ciudad de Buenos Aires entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX. Hace eje en los distintos actores centrales de este devenir, no sólo...

Professor Wang Jian was originally awarded his doctoral degree in 2005 in the field of Chinese linguistics by Peking University. Following upon this, he carried out a period of postdoctoral research in the Linguistics Institute at the...

Nevra Necipoglu (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1990) is Professor of History at Bogazici University in Istanbul and the founding director of the Bogazici University Byzantine Studies Research Center, established in 2015. Her areas of research include...

Jon Fraenkel is a Professor in Comparative Politics in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. He formerly worked at the Australian National University (2007-12) and the...

Francesco Antonelli is Research Fellow in Sociology at Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche. He is the secretary of the Gender Studies Scientific Board at Italian Sociological Association. He is Work Package Leader...

Professor Borut Telban (Ph.D. 1994, The Australian National University) is Research Advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His ethnographic research among the Karawari-speaking people of East Sepik Province,...

Rebecca Goetz received her PhD in 2006 from Harvard University. Historian of early North America, she specializes in the history of race and slavery. She also has broad interests in the history of the Atlantic World and in comparative colonialisms...

John Barker (PhD, British Columbia, 1985) is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose main research concerns the religious change among Indigenous peoples in colonial and post-colonial Oceania and British Columbia and the history of anthropological...

Assistant Professor Luciana Fiorini joined the University of Western Australia in July of 2011, after working at Tulane University (USA) for four years. Her research in Economic Theory focuses on modeling market imperfections and asymmetry of...