History Department Calendar
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| Dec 1st, 2009 (Tue) | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| Tuesday Seminar: The Capabilities View of Development Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School. Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation. The Tuesday Seminar is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250 Tuesday, December 11th 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
| Dec 1st, 2009 (Tue) | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
| "The United States and Kaji Wataru in Wartime China and Occupied Japan." Erik Esselstrom (University of Vermont) 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, December 1st 12:30-2:00pm |
| Dec 2nd, 2009 (Wed) | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| "The Great Railway Rebellion that Rocked Cold War Mexico" Robert Alegre, Assistant Professor of History, University of New England Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250 Wednesday, December 2nd 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
| Dec 2nd, 2009 (Wed) | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| The Great Railway Rebellion that Rocked Cold War Mexico. Robert Alegre, Assistant Professor of History, University of New England. Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250 Wednesday, December 2nd 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
| Dec 2nd, 2009 (Wed) | 3:30 PM |
| The Idea of Justice: A Symposium on Amartya Sen's recent book Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor discusses The Idea of Justice A Symposium SESSION ONE @ 3:30 p.m. Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University Nancy Rosenblum, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Thomas Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity BREAK SESSION TWO @ 6:00 p.m. 20 Questions with Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities Director of the Humanities Center Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law Dean of the Faculty of Law Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering Richard Tuck, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Sponsored by the Humanities Center open to the public, seating is limited Emerson Hall, room 105 Wednesday, December 2nd 3:30pm |
| Dec 2nd, 2009 (Wed) | 4:00 PM |
| "Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis" Linda Colley (Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University) Comment: Penny Sinanoglu (Lecturer in History & Literature, 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 S020 Wednesday, December 2nd 4:00pm |
| Dec 2nd, 2009 (Wed) | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
| "Turkey's Opening: Negotiations with Iraqi Kurdistan and US Redeployment from Iraq" David Phillips Director, Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, American University. Adjunct Professor, Department of Politics, New York University. Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States.; Director, Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, American University. Adjunct Professor, Department of Politics, New York University. Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States. Weatherhead Center Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World Center for Government and International Studies, Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie Vernon Room K262 Wednesday, December 2nd 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
| Dec 3rd, 2009 (Thu) |
| Last Day of Fall Term Classes |
| Dec 3rd, 2009 (Thu) | 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM |
| A Scholarly Tribute to Angeliki Laiou "Ottoman Perceptions of and Responses to the Greek War of Independence" Speaker: Sükrü Ilicak, Center for Middle East Studies and Department of History, Harvard University "Theatrum virtutis: Early Byzantine Parenetic Literature" Speaker: Nikos Panou, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, and Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. Reception to follow Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Conference Room Thursday, December 3rd 4:15pm - 6:00pm |
| Dec 4th, 2009 (Fri) -- Dec 11th, 2009 (Fri) |
| Fall Reading Period |
| Dec 4th, 2009 (Fri) | 12:00 PM |
| Department Meeting Robinson Hall, Lower Library Friday, December 4th |
| Dec 4th, 2009 (Fri) | 2:00 PM |
| "Opening the Urban Frontier: Taking Down German City Walls in the Nineteenth Century" Kristin Poling, Harvard University Department of History PhD candidate job talk Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Garden Room Friday, December 4th 2:00pm |
| Dec 11th, 2009 (Fri) | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
| Department Meeting Meeting with Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development, and librarians Alison Scott, Fred Burchsted and Lynn Shirey. Robinson Hall, Lower Library Friday, December 11th noon - 1:00pm |
| Dec 11th, 2009 (Fri) | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil Privatized Subsoil Rights in Brazil The speaker of the inaugural event will be Professor Gail Triner (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University). Prof. Triner is author of Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930 (Palgrave Press, 2000). Her research interests include the economic history of Brazil, emphasizing finance, property rights and the environment, as well as the comparative history of Latin American banking. Led by Professors Aldo Musacchio (Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School) and Ben Ross Schneider (Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the new Harvard-MIT Workshop seeks to promote an ongoing interdisciplinary academic exchange among professors, students, and practitioners in the Cambridge-Boston area with speakers who are experts on the political economy of development in Brazil. Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge Street Friday, December 11th 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Dec 12th, 2009 (Sat) -- Dec 21st, 2009 (Mon) |
| Fall Term Final Examination Period |
| Dec 15th, 2009 (Tue) |
| Graduate Admissions Applications Due |
| Dec 22nd, 2009 (Tue) -- Jan 24th, 2010 (Sun) |
| Winter Recess Holiday -no classes, offices closed through January 3rd. |
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