Book Talks
In support of the last phase of the research cycle and the fostering of communities of research, the Mortara Center sponsors multiple book talks each semester.
Spring 2024 Book Talks
We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War by Matthew Kroenig, Dan Negrea, and Mike Pompeo
Thursday, March 21 at 12 PM EST
The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and PeaceWe Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War by Elizabeth N. Saunders
Monday, April 15 at 12:3p PM EST
Fall 2023 Book Talks
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji
September 12 at 3:30 PM EST
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Abraham Newman & Henry Farrell
Thursday, October 12 at 12 PM EST
Inoculating Cities: Case Studies of the Urban Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Matthew Boyce & Rebecca Katz
Tuesday, October 17 at 12 PM EST
The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations by Michael David-Fox
Thursday, November 2 at 12 PM EST
Spring 2023 Book Talks
The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954 by Gregory Brew & David Painter
April 12 at 5 PM EST
Cooperating for the Climate by Joanna Lewis
April 4 at 4 PM
Weaponizing Water: Water Stress & Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa & The Middle East by Marcus King
February 28 at 4 PM
Fall 2022 Book Talks
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World by Robert J. Lieber
October 20 at 12:30 PM
Spring 2021 Book Talks
The Return of Great Power Rivalry by Matthew Kroenig
February 5 at 12:00pm EST
