You’re Invited
to the opening of the exhibition

“Sublime and Manifest: The American Romanticism of John James Audubon”

Curated by Jess Clay ‘17
 
Thursday, November 17
5:30-7:00 PM
Houghton Library

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Participants

Danielle Allen
Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

David Laibson
Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Jill Lepore
David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard University

Free and open to the public.

History of the Book

Juliet Fleming, New York University

Gleaning

Abstract

In a late essay Heidegger used the figure of gleaning to describe the contemplative experience of reading: "Lego, legein, Latin legere, is the same word as our lesen [to collect]: gleaning, collecting wood, harvesting grapes, making a selection, 'reading [lesen] a book' is just a variant of 'gathering' in the authentic sense [‘ein Buch lesen’ is nur ein Abort des ‘Lesens’ in eigentlichen Sinne.] This means laying one thing next to another, bringing them together as one [in...

Reading & Q&A with Joel Christian Gill

Bessie Stringfield: Tales of The Talented Tenth Vol 2 (Fulcrum Publishing, 2016)

Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental...

Fall Colloquium 

Lorena Rizzo, Researcher and lecturer, History Department, University of Bielefeld

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

Seeing through Whiteness -...

Join Transition magazine at the Harvard Book Store for the launch of issue 121 “Childhood.” Guest editor Amy Fish will be joined by Chris King, Grace Aneiza Ali, and local youth writers for readings from the issue and beyond.

In issue 121, authors consider symbolic and ideological...

Ulrich Leben
Associate Curator, Waddesdon Manor; Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, Bard Graduate Center

Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard, Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium Seminar

Amy Offner (University of Pennsylvania)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a talk in Arabic

Zeinab Taha
Associate Professor Arabic Linguistics, Department of Arabic Language (former Arabic Language Institute), The American University of Cairo

Zeinab Taha received her PhD in Arabic linguistics from...

Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a workshop organized by Roger Owen and Adam Mestyan

This workshop aims to historicize violent conflicts in the states of the Post-Mandate territories and to understand the Arabic terminology of violence in a trans-temporal and trans-national framework. In order to do this, we propose three sessions:

1. To problematize the terminology and political theory of civil war in Arabic, from Muslim...

Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

“Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?”

Details can be found here:  https://www.masshist....

Professor Thongchai Winichakul, Professor Emeritus of History,University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Third Annual Stanley J. Tambiah Lecture in Thai Studies

Sponsored by the Thai Studies Program at the Harvard University Asia Center

Jeremy Eichler

Lecturer in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

The Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard presents the first event of the 2016/2017 Academic year:

What Works: Gender Equality by Design

Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Date: Wednesday November 30, 2016 | 12pm to 1.30pm

Location: Knafel...