Elsewhere at Harvard

2023 Sep 28

Imperial Dust: Colonial and Communist Federalism in Indochina

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

History Department Seminar Room (#125), Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Sponsors: Harvard Asia Center, GSAS Empire, Nation, Federation Workshop

Speaker: Christopher Goscha, Université de Québec à Montréal

Chair: Sugata Bose, Harvard Universit

2023 Oct 03

Rediscovering Germany’s Colonial History and Its Impact on Foreign Policy

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Speaker: Anna Sauerbrey, Foreign Editor, Die Zeit; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (Fall 2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair: David Spreen, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty and Seminar Co-Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
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2023 Sep 27

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures.

In conversation with CES Resident Faculty Maya Jasanoff, Philip Stern will share the findings of his new book, Empire, Incorporated (Harvard University Press, 2023),...

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2023 Oct 03

Book talk: "Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600-1700"

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Series is pleased to present a book talk with:

Aslıhan Gürbüzel
Assistant Professor of Ottoman history, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

Discussant: Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences; Interim Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University

In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and...

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2023 Sep 25

Imperial Dust: Colonial and Communist Federalism in Indochina

6:45pm

Location: 

History Department Conference Room (Room 125), Robinson Hall

Please join us next Thursday, September 28, History Department Conference Room (35 Quincy St, Room 125) for a talk by Christopher Goscha, University of Quebec at Montreal, for his talk "Imperial Dust: Colonial and Communist Federalism in Indochina." The talk will be chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History. 

This talk is sponsored by the Asia Center and the GSAS Empire, Nation, Federation workshop.

2023 Oct 04

HIGHS Seminar: The Right to Migration, 1689-1776

3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Department Conference Room (Room 125), Robinson Hall and Zoom (see post to register)

The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs

"The Right to Migration, 1689-1776"

Stephanie DeGooyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comment: Angela Yan (Harvard)

This session will take place in person, with an option for remote access.
Please register in advance to receive the paper and the Zoom link.

To register: ...

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2023 Oct 05

Access to What? On Capital, Value Capture, and Higher Education from 1890s Berlin to 1960s Berkeley

4:30pm

Location: 

Sever Hall, Room 103
In his forthcoming book After the University, a history of the university from the perspective of intellectual desire, Chad Wellmon argues that institutions of higher learning don’t just transmit knowledge. They shape the objects of our attention and sustain the practices that fit us to those objects. Like all institutions, universities give objective, material form to shared human expectations, practices, and values––the stuff of history. In this talk, Wellmon will trace the evolution of “educational capital” as a concept and its role in the emergence of modern systems of... Read more about Access to What? On Capital, Value Capture, and Higher Education from 1890s Berlin to 1960s Berkeley
2023 Sep 29

Academic Symposium: Revitalizing Democracy

10:15am to 11:45am

Location: 

John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Democratic societies have long grappled with instability and unrest, but are we now standing at a crucial inflection point? How can democracy not only survive but truly thrive in the complex landscape of the 21st century? Join our speakers for a thought-provoking discussion about revitalizing democracy, drawing lessons from history and exploring global contexts beyond the United States. Discover the pivotal role that universities can play in fostering societies where diversity is celebrated as a strength rather than a source of division.

Panel: ...

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2023 Sep 20

CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series: Climate Inheritance

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present

Rania Ghosn
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT; Partner, DESIGN EARTH

Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of DESIGN EARTH with El Hadi Jazairy. DESIGN EARTH deploys the speculative narrative to make public the climate crisis. Their work “After Oil” is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has been exhibited internationally,...

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2023 Oct 06

Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023

(All day)

Location: 

Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

The Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) was founded in Frankfurt a century ago, in 1923. To mark the occasion of its founding and growth over the last one hundred years, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History at the will convene at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University,...

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2023 Sep 21

Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico

6:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133

Speaker: James Mestaz, Sonoma State University

Dr. James Mestaz is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Sonoma State University. He previously taught for two years in Harvard’s History and Literature concentration. His courses focus largely on the histories of marginalized groups, allowing students to draw connections between past and current social and environmental justice struggles. This approach fits into his commitment to linking students to grassroots and community organizations in both the U.S. and Latin America. He will be discussing his recently...

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