Outside of Harvard

2023 Sep 13

Asia in Dialogue presents Art, Poetry, and Music in Asian Conversations Dr. Sugata Bose, Harvard University

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

MIT Campus, E51-285

Drawing on his forthcoming book Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024), Sugata Bose will interpret artistic and literary interactions across Asia by tracking the intersecting journeys of an array of Asian intellectual and cultural figures. These interactions span a whole spectrum of intimacies, affective bonds, solidarities, and alliances transcending boundaries of the nation. The presentation will illuminate a facet of the history of Asia as a connected space after the European colonial...

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2023 Apr 19

Wandering Boston’s Little Syria

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Virtual and in-person (see below)

Lydia Harrington, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT

Chloe Bordewich, PhD, Post-Doctoral Associate in Public History at Boston University Center for Antiracist Research
 

This is a hybrid event. FREE. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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2022 Nov 17

Panel Discussion: In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Advance Registration Required.
$10 members/ $15 nonmembers
Free for Harvard ID holders

How can an imaginative fusion of art and science help us reach a meaningful understanding of the relationship between our actions, climate change, and diminishing biodiversity? This panel features the artists and scientists who collaborated in developing In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, an exhibition now...

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2022 Oct 07

Royal Irish Academy Discourse: ‘Academic Freedom – Threats Within and Without'

7:00am

Location: 

Virtual (see post)

As part of its Discourse Series, the Royal Irish Academy is honoured to host Professor Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Ben Tonra MRIA for ‘Academic Freedom – Threats Within and Without’ in Academy House and online this Friday, 7 October at 12 noon.

As former President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest during the turbulent years 2016-2021, which saw the CEU’s expulsion from Hungary and re-establishment in Vienna, Professor Ignatieff is uniquely placed to lead this conversation on the importance of academic freedom and university...

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2022 Oct 08

Azaadi (Freedom): A concert by Zeb Bangash

6:30pm

Location: 

Distler Performance Hall of the Granoff Music Center in the Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Ma

Please visit here to purchase your tickets. The cost of admissions is $5 with proceeds for Pakistan flood relief.

Jointly supported by: Presidents Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard University, and Anthony P. Monaco, Tufts University

This concert is associated with the Harvard-Tufts conference on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition

2022 Jul 06

Abortion, Choice, and the Supreme Court: History Behind the Headlines

3:00pm

Location: 

Virtual (registration required)

Join us for our free AHA Online event, “Abortion, Choice, and the Supreme Court: History Behind the Headlines,” on Wednesday, July 6, at 3 PM ET. 

This AHA Online event brings together four leading scholars to place Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in historical context. How did we get here from Roe v. Wade (1973)? Why is history central to this jurisprudence and its implications?

Panelists:

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2021 Nov 17

Becoming Free, Becoming Black

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

AAAS Professor Alejandro de la Fuente will speak at Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of History on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 4:00pm-6:00pm (Eastern).  AAAS Professor de la Fuente will discuss the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make...

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2021 Nov 14

Jewish Soldiers & Fighters in World War II

(All day)

Location: 

Event hosted virtually (see registration page)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Amidst the bloodshed and destruction of World War II, nearly 1.5 million Jewish men and women made vital contributions to the Allied war effort against Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers. However, despite the large volume of World War II research, books, movies, and other works, the very fact of these 1.5 million “Jewish soldiers” remains virtually unknown.

In November 2021, leading experts from universities, archives, libraries and museums will gather on an international (virtual) stage, alongside members of the public, veterans...

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2021 Sep 21

Caroline Elkins "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Zoom
On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, at 12:00pm (EST) AAAS Professor Caroline Elkins will give at talk at the University of Pennsylvania entitled, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire".  To attend the talk, please use the following Zoom access link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93802120255... Read more about Caroline Elkins "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"
2021 Sep 13

Harvard Bookstore: Jim Downs in Conversation with Sven Beckert

7:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Jim Downs, the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College and former WIGH Fellow, for a discussion of his latest book, Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. He will be joined in conversation by Sven Beckert, acclaimed author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History....

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2020 Feb 21

Family Separation and the U.S, Then and Now: Film Screening & Panel Discussion

1:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Tufts University (See event posting for more location information)

 

This two-part event begins with a screening of Dawnland, "the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation's first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission." The panel discussion will feature Lisa Brooks, on the separation of Native children during King Philip's War; Walter Johnson, on family separation, slavery, and the slave trade; N. Bruce Duthu, producer of Dawnland, on twentieth-century indigenous child removal and its impact on the Wabanaki people; and Perla Guerrero, on Latinas/os deportation in...

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2020 Jan 29

Professor David D. Hall: The Puritans: A Transatlantic History

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Puritans: A Transatlantic History

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This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished. Hall's vivid and wide-ranging narrative describes the movement'...

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