The CES Colonial Encounters Working Group and CMES present

Allison Hartnett
Pre-doctoral research fellow, Middle East Inititiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; DPhil candidate,...

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Ohannes Kılıçdağı
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Ohannes Kılıçdağı, after his double major degree of sociology and political science at Boğaziçi...

The CMES Israeli Law, Literature and Society Seminar Series presents

Nili Gold

Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

The city...

Join us at the Advising Fortnight info session at our Center and explore the exciting opportunities offered by the secondary field in European History, Politics and Societies. Our team of advisors will be here to answer your questions. Discover how the Center's programs can enrich your studies through internships as well as travel and research in Europe.

Sponsors

• Minda de Gunzburg...

* Event Location: Please note that this event is not held at CES. Consult the event details above for the correct location. **

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Join us at the kick-off event for Advising Fortnight. Enjoy a special buffet and explore the concentration fair. Come to the CES booth and speak with our advisors for the secondary field in European History, Politics and Societies. Learn what this exciting field has to offer...

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

SPEAKER

Kathleen Thelen
Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT and CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

Contact: 

Peter A. Hall​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​phall@fas.harvard.edu

About

This paper identifies key...

Yukako Otori (History)

In the 1920s, the League of Nations promoted the standardization of passports. This paper will point out that the modern passport regime has not exempted children since its inception. At the same time, it has distinguished them from adults: children were not necessarily assured the right to hold a passport of their own; children could be included in the family passport of their parent, more exactly, that of their father. The system of family passports, however, remained not criticized for most of the 1920s, when...

The Program on Constutional Government (PCG) Lunchtime Seminar presents:

"We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative"
George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

The Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University is directed by Harvey Mansfield. PCG Seminar talks are open to the public but RSVP is required. RSVP to pcg@gov.harvard.edu. 

Joanna Davidson is an Assistant Professor at Boston University. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include cultural conceptions of knowledge, anthropological engagements with development, and the politics of storytelling. Dr. Davidson has conducted ethnographic research in Guinea-Bissau since 1999, where she has focused on rural West Africans’ responses to environmental and economic change. She will present The Problem of Widows: Making and Unmaking Marriage in Rural West Africa. Discussant: George Meiu.

A week in advance, the...

Undergraduates are invited to enjoy food from the African continent as we hear from a diverse guest panel who have worked in various African countries. An informal mixer, following the panel discussion, will offer an excellent opportunity to continue talking with panelists as well as other individuals with experience in Africa. This program is cosponsored by: The Office of Career Services (OCS), The Center for African Studies (CAS), Harvard African Student Association (HASA), and the Harvard Africa Business Investment Club (HABIC).

Please RSVP at Crimson...

Free Public Lecture

Laurel Bestock, Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Egyptology and Assyriology, and the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4,000 years ago, defending it with a string of monumental fortresses along the Nile River. Previously thought lost, when the construction of the Aswan High Dam flooded the area, one fortress, known as Uronarti, was recently rediscovered and is being excavated for the first time since George Reisner’s...

Jennifer Lin, Former Reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer

Details: From Missionary Cook to Counter-Revolutionary: Five Generations of a Chinese Christian Family

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School

Zheng Yanqing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”

Shao Yanjun, Peking University: “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”

Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers, Sharpers, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.”

Details: Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries...

Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu,  Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar

The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage...