History Department Calendar
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| Oct 1st, 2009 (Thu) | 4:00 PM |
| Senior Faculty Meeting Robinson Hall, Lower Library |
| Oct 2nd, 2009 (Fri) | 12:00 PM |
| Department Meeting Robinson Hall, Lower Library |
| Oct 2nd, 2009 (Fri) | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
| "Performing Heliodorus: Queen Anna's Dark Conceit in Jonson's 'The Masque of Blackness'" Shakespearean Studies & Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Scott Maisano (University of Massachusetts, Boston). "Performing Heliodorus: Queen Anna's Dark Conceit in Jonson's 'The Masque of Blackness'" (Humanities Center Seminars) http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Friday, October 2nd 6:00pm - 7:30pm (reception at 5:30pm) |
| Oct 12th, 2009 (Mon) |
| Columbus Day Holiday -no classes, offices closed |
| Oct 13th, 2009 (Tue) | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
| "Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives." Peter J. Katzenstein (Cornell University) Presented by the U.S.-Japan Relations Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 Tuesday, October13th 12:30-2:00 |
| Oct 13th, 2009 (Tue) | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
| Grant Proposal Workshop for External Funding Trisha Craig, Executive Director of CES and Brendan Karch, graduate student in History, will lead a hands-on seminar designed for graduate students who will be applying for external funding for dissertation research, including travel grants and completion awards. Strategies for preparing proposals for fellowships such as the SSRC, Fulbright and ACLS-Mellon will be discussed. Participants will review before-and-after examples and receive targeted advice on how to improve their own proposals. With deadlines approaching in November, don't miss this timely event. Refreshments will be provided. Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Goldman Room Tuesday, October 13th 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
| Oct 14th, 2009 (Wed) |
| "A Nation-Building People: American Efforts at International Control without Empire, and the Consequences" Jeremi Suri (E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Comment: Vernie Oliveiro (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University) Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs: Harvard International & Global History Seminar Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050 Wednesday, October 14th 4:00pm |
| Oct 14th, 2009 (Wed) | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
| Title TBA Ellen Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Humanities Center Seminars)Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Wednesday, October 14th 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
| Oct 19th, 2009 (Mon) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| "An Imperial Polity: Remaking Race in Global America." Paul Kramer (Warren Fellow, Vanderbilt University) Presented by the Warren Center's Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below. Robinson Hall, Lower Library 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library Monday, October 19th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 19th, 2009 (Mon) | 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM |
| "Publishing Articles in Peer-Reviewed History Journals." Robert Schneider, the editor of the American Historical Review, will be visiting the Department of History on Monday and Tuesday, 19-20 October, to take part in two panel presentations. "Publishing Articles in Peer-Reviewed History Journals." This presentation is designed to invite both faculty and graduate students to think about the place of the peer-reviewed article in the field and to describe some of the mechanics of writing and submitting articles. Schneider is interested in inviting discussion on the forms that articles can take. Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy Street Monday, October 19th 4:15pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 20th, 2009 (Tue) | 4:15 PM - 6:30 PM |
| "Writing History" Robert Schneider, the editor of the American Historical Review, will be visiting the Department of History on Monday and Tuesday, 19-20 October, to take part in two panel presentations. "Writing History," a panel tentatively organized with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Vincent Brown, and Rob Schneider; short remarks from each to initiate discussion on such themes as the writing of history; the role of books and articles in hiring, tenure, and promotion; the format of conference papers and sessions; the possibilities for documentaries; writing works that span research specialties, and anything that the audience might bring to the table. Robinson Hall, Lower Library Tuesday, October 20th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 20th, 2009 (Tue) | 5:30 PM |
| 'Beyond Re-presentations: Manuscript Correspondence as Unmediated Status Interaction' & 'Justice, Orality and Writing in Early Modern Western France' A panel on orality and writing in early modern France featuring Giora Sternberg (Harvard Society of Fellows), and Eva Guillorel (Visiting scholar, Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard) Sponsored by the early modern history workshop at Harvard. Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room Tuesday, October 20th 5:30pm |
| Oct 21st, 2009 (Wed) | 4:15 PM |
| Sojourners, Settlers, Citizens: Indians and Chinese in Colonial Malaya Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London) (MIT) Sponsored by the Center for History and Economics Robinson Hall, Lower Library Wednesday, October 21st 4:15pm |
| Oct 22nd, 2009 (Thu) | 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
| "From Archive to Collection: Medieval Charters and the Contingency of Interpretation" Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University). Houghton Library Workshop: Two sessions. Pre-registration required. Email jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu indicating which of the two sessions you prefer. Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies Harvard Law School, Library, Rare Book Collection Thursday, October 22nd Session I: 9:30am - 12:00pm Session II: 2:00pm - 4:30pm |
| Oct 22nd, 2009 (Thu) | 4:15 PM |
| "Of Empty Places: Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau, or the End of the Affair." Warren Breckman (UPenn) Presentation and discussion of precirculated paper Sponsored by The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual and Cultural History Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Conference Room Thursday, October 22nd 4:15pm |
| Oct 22nd, 2009 (Thu) | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
| "Rewriting Literary History: The Case of Moroccan Fiction in Arabic" Roger Allen (University of Pennsylvania) Humanities Center Seminar: Cross Cultural Poetics and Rhetoric Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Thursday, October 22nd 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
| Oct 22nd, 2009 (Thu) | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
| "Unnamable History: Beckett, Smithson, Spirals, and Global Modernity" Nico Israel (Hunter College, City University of New York) Humanities Center Seminar: Modernimsm Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Thursday, October 22nd 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
| Oct 23rd, 2009 (Fri) | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
| France and the World & Cross-Cultural Poetics and Rhetoric Abdellah Taia (Moroccan author). "Moroccan Fiction: Problems of Gender and Translation" Humanities Center Seminar co-sponsored with Cross-Cultural Poetics and Rhetoric and The Program of Moroccan Studies, Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Friday, October 23rd 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
| Oct 23rd, 2009 (Fri) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| "The Curious Function of Courtly Love in Lacan's Seminar" Paul Moyaert (Catholic University of Louvain) Humanities Center Seminar: Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Friday, October 23rd 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 26th, 2009 (Mon) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| The Norton Lectures: "Museums and Novels" Orhan Pamuk (winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature) on "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist." Lecture 5: "Museums and Novels" Humanities Center Seminar Memorial Hall, Sanders Theater Monday, October 26th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 26th, 2009 (Mon) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| "Conceptualizing the World Working Class" Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam University) Commentators: John Womack Jr, (Department of History, Harvard University, Emeritus) Stefan Link, (Department of History, Harvard University, PhD candidate) (see www.fas.harvard.edu/~polecon/ for updates). Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center. Robinson Hall, Lower Library 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library Monday, October 26th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 26th, 2009 (Mon) | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
| "Creative Empowerment of Marginalized Youth in Refugee Camps: Experiences and Lessons from the West Bank" Nidal al Azraq (author) and Nitin Sawhney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Humanities Center Seminar: Cultural and Humanitarian Agents Barker Center, room 133 12 Quincy Street Monday, October 26th 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
| Oct 29th, 2009 (Thu) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| "Israeli Politics Since the Rabin Assassination" Renven Hazan (Harvard University) Humanities Center Seminar: Jewish Cultures and Societies Center for Government and International Studies, Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge Street, K051 Thursday, October 29th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Oct 29th, 2009 (Thu) | 4:00 PM |
| The Consilience of History and Science. A New Approach to the Study of the Human Past Michael McCormick (Harvard) Faculty Seminar pre-circulated paper available on the Graduate Student Resources site in the program announcements section. Robinson Hall, Lower Library 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library Thursday, October 29th 4:00pm |
| Oct 29th, 2009 (Thu) | 5:00 PM |
| "The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th Century America" Margot Canaday (Princeton University) A discussion of Professor Canaday's book on the same title. Co-presented by the American Civilization Workshop and the GSAS Gender and Sexuality Workshop Barker Center, Thompson Room 133 12 Quincy Street Thursday, October 29th 5:00pm |
| Oct 30th, 2009 (Fri) | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| "Faith and Fortune: Religious Identity and the Politics of Profit in the Early Caribbean." Kristen Block (Warren Fellow, Florida Atlantic University) Presented by the Warren Center's Workshop on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below. Robinson Hall, Lower Library 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library Friday, Octoer 30th 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
| Oct 30th, 2009 (Fri) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| New Literary Histories: Australia and the United States Compared A panel discussion of A New Literary History of America (2009) and The Literature of Australia: An Anthology (2009). Discussants: Nicholas Jose (University of Western Sydney, editor of The Literature of Australia), Werner Sollors (Harvard University, co-editor of A New Literary History of America), Nicole Moore (Macquarie University, contributor to The Literature of Australia), Stephen Burt (Harvard University, contributor to A New Literary History of America). Chair: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University). Center for Government and International Studies 1737 Cambridge Street, K050 Friday, October 30th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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