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November 2019

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					“From Homer to History with the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center. Recent results from Bronze Age Investigations.” 11/1/2019 1:00pm to 5:00pm “From Homer to History with the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center. Recent results from Bronze Age Investigations.” 11/1/2019 1:00pm to 5:00pm Location: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
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	Harvard Divinity School Film Series: The Two Popes 11/4/2019 3:00pm to 6:00pm Harvard Divinity School Film Series: The Two Popes 11/4/2019 3:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138	“Owned, Controlled, and Operated by Japanese: Racial Uplift and Japanese American Film Production, 1912-1920” 11/5/2019 9:45am to 11:45am “Owned, Controlled, and Operated by Japanese: Racial Uplift and Japanese American Film Production, 1912-1920” 11/5/2019 9:45am to 11:45am Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room Ruth Calderon: How Intellectuals Can Create Political Change 11/5/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm Ruth Calderon: How Intellectuals Can Create Political Change 11/5/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Harvard Law School, Austin 200, Ames Courtroom, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Harlem in Germany": Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic 11/5/2019 5:00pm "Harlem in Germany": Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic 11/5/2019 5:00pm Location: History Department Conference Room	IAAS Lecture Series - Dangling Threads to Examine the Channels: Tales of Pulse Diagnosis in Tibetan and Chinese Literature 11/6/2019 1:15pm to 2:30pm IAAS Lecture Series - Dangling Threads to Examine the Channels: Tales of Pulse Diagnosis in Tibetan and Chinese Literature 11/6/2019 1:15pm to 2:30pm Location: CGIS-South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138 HIGHS Seminar: “Undermining Rights: Transnational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Activism across Settler States” 11/6/2019 3:45pm HIGHS Seminar: “Undermining Rights: Transnational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Activism across Settler States” 11/6/2019 3:45pm Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room Patrick Chung, “From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: The U.S. Military, Infrastructural Development, and the Origins of South Korea’s Export Boom.” 11/6/2019 4:00pm to 5:00pm Patrick Chung, “From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: The U.S. Military, Infrastructural Development, and the Origins of South Korea’s Export Boom.” 11/6/2019 4:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Cotting Hall Conference Room, 50 N Harvard St, Boston, MA 02163 Nazism: A Dark Comedy in Liechtenstein 11/6/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Nazism: A Dark Comedy in Liechtenstein 11/6/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall The Catastrophe of Translation 11/6/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm The Catastrophe of Translation 11/6/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Barker Center, Room 230, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Solomon Mikhoels: Actor, Director, Playwright and Visionary 11/6/2019 4:30pm to 5:45pm Solomon Mikhoels: Actor, Director, Playwright and Visionary 11/6/2019 4:30pm to 5:45pm Location: CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium Louisiana Medley: The Social Justice Photography of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun 11/6/2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Louisiana Medley: The Social Justice Photography of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun 11/6/2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge MA	“Scientific Development and its Data: Provincializing Impact” 11/7/2019 12:00pm to 1:30pm “Scientific Development and its Data: Provincializing Impact” 11/7/2019 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Science Center 4th floor, History of Science Dept., room 469 A Premonition of the Shoah? R. A. Reiss’s Photographs of Monástir, 1917 11/7/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm A Premonition of the Shoah? R. A. Reiss’s Photographs of Monástir, 1917 11/7/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall "The Pleasures of Age": Old Women and Political Power in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement 11/7/2019 6:30pm to 8:00pm "The Pleasures of Age": Old Women and Political Power in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement 11/7/2019 6:30pm to 8:00pm Location: Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway	"Climate Change Crisis and Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Conservation: An Afro-Colombian Perspective" 11/8/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm "Climate Change Crisis and Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Conservation: An Afro-Colombian Perspective" 11/8/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm Location: Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street 3R
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	Veteran’s Day (Classes Held, Staff Off) Veteran’s Day (Classes Held, Staff Off) 11/11/2019 (All day)	Faculty Meeting 11/12/2019 3:00pm Faculty Meeting 11/12/2019 3:00pm Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933 11/12/2019 5:00pm Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933 11/12/2019 5:00pm Location: History Department Conference Room	From Bandung to Jakarta: Sino-Japanese Rapprochement and Links to South East Asia 11/13/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm From Bandung to Jakarta: Sino-Japanese Rapprochement and Links to South East Asia 11/13/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: CGIS Knafel K262, Bowie-Vernon Room History and Economics Seminar - Good Economics for Hard Times 11/13/2019 6:00pm History and Economics Seminar - Good Economics for Hard Times 11/13/2019 6:00pm Location: Tsai auditorium, CGIS-S010 (reception to follow in CGIS-S030) (Massachusetts Historical Society) Housing as History: the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Orchard Gardens At the Dewitt Center 11/13/2019 6:00pm to 7:00pm (Massachusetts Historical Society) Housing as History: the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Orchard Gardens At the Dewitt Center 11/13/2019 6:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Dewitt Center, 122 Dewitt Drive, Boston, MA 02120 Cambridge Historical Society: "How Can We Make Change Here?" 11/13/2019 6:00pm to 8:00pm Cambridge Historical Society: "How Can We Make Change Here?" 11/13/2019 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: University Lutheran Church 66 Winthrop St, Cambridge, MA	Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy 11/14/2019 12:00pm Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy 11/14/2019 12:00pm Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, 02138 "We are Bengali Rank!": "Non-Martial" Bengalis in Wartime Mesopotamia, 1915-1920 11/14/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm "We are Bengali Rank!": "Non-Martial" Bengalis in Wartime Mesopotamia, 1915-1920 11/14/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge Russian Jewish Immigrant 'Bankers' and American Finance: The Case of Saul Singer and the Bank of United States 11/14/2019 4:15pm Russian Jewish Immigrant 'Bankers' and American Finance: The Case of Saul Singer and the Bank of United States 11/14/2019 4:15pm Location: Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA 02138 The Intellectual Legacy of Primo Levi 11/14/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm The Intellectual Legacy of Primo Levi 11/14/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm Location: Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Listening for Grandfathers: Aadizookaanag in Museum Collections 11/14/2019 6:00pm Listening for Grandfathers: Aadizookaanag in Museum Collections 11/14/2019 6:00pm Location: Harvard University Department of History of Art & Architecture, Arthur M. Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Room 422, Cambridge, MA	The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World: Knowledge, Power, Practice 11/15/2019 9:00am to 5:00pm The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World: Knowledge, Power, Practice 11/15/2019 9:00am to 5:00pm Location: History Department Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library), Robinson Hall Sacred and Profane: Byzantine and Ottoman Music Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean 11/15/2019 2:00pm to 3:30pm Sacred and Profane: Byzantine and Ottoman Music Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean 11/15/2019 2:00pm to 3:30pm Location: Lecture Hall 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Divinity School Film Series: The Biggest Little Farm 11/11/2019 3:00pm to 6:00pm Harvard Divinity School Film Series: The Biggest Little Farm 11/11/2019 3:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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	Harvard Divinity School Film Series - Us Kids: We Call BS 11/18/2019 3:00pm to 6:00pm Harvard Divinity School Film Series - Us Kids: We Call BS 11/18/2019 3:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 WIGH Seminar: Antara Haldar, "The Future of the History of Capitalism" 11/18/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm WIGH Seminar: Antara Haldar, "The Future of the History of Capitalism" 11/18/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street (AKPIA@MIT) Research Projects by two AKPIA Post-Doctoral Fellows 11/18/2019 6:00pm (AKPIA@MIT) Research Projects by two AKPIA Post-Doctoral Fellows 11/18/2019 6:00pm Location: Maclaurin Buildings, Building 3, Room 3-133 Harvard Bookstore: Lizabeth Cohen, "Saving America's Cities" (book signing and discussion) 11/18/2019 7:00pm Harvard Bookstore: Lizabeth Cohen, "Saving America's Cities" (book signing and discussion) 11/18/2019 7:00pm Location: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Harvard Divinity School Film Series: Harriet 11/18/2019 7:00pm to 10:00pm Harvard Divinity School Film Series: Harriet 11/18/2019 7:00pm to 10:00pm Location: Kendall Square Cinema, 355 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02138	“Intimate Proximities: Queer Filipinos and the Canadian Global City” 11/19/2019 9:45am to 11:45am “Intimate Proximities: Queer Filipinos and the Canadian Global City” 11/19/2019 9:45am to 11:45am Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room Early Modern Workshop - "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin” 11/19/2019 5:30pm Early Modern Workshop - "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin” 11/19/2019 5:30pm Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room The Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar - Getting from the Pleistocene to the Present in the American Southeast: What Is and What Still Could Be 11/19/2019 6:00pm The Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar - Getting from the Pleistocene to the Present in the American Southeast: What Is and What Still Could Be 11/19/2019 6:00pm Location: Room 133, Barker Center	(Massachusetts Historical Society) Housing as History: New Directions for Boston’s Subsidized Housing: Learning from the Past 11/20/2019 6:00pm to 7:00pm (Massachusetts Historical Society) Housing as History: New Directions for Boston’s Subsidized Housing: Learning from the Past 11/20/2019 6:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Early Modern History Workshop - “Trade and Lawsuits across the Atlantic: litigation involving Sephardic and converso traders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil” 11/20/2019 6:00pm Early Modern History Workshop - “Trade and Lawsuits across the Atlantic: litigation involving Sephardic and converso traders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil” 11/20/2019 6:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (#125) Ojibwe language Warriors in Action: Connecting the Academy, the Community, and the Quest for Knowledge 11/20/2019 6:00pm Ojibwe language Warriors in Action: Connecting the Academy, the Community, and the Quest for Knowledge 11/20/2019 6:00pm Location: Harvard University Department of History of Art & Architecture, Arthur M. Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Room 422, Cambridge, MA	#GamAni?: Sexualized Violence in Hebrew Literature and Israeli Culture 11/21/2019 4:15pm #GamAni?: Sexualized Violence in Hebrew Literature and Israeli Culture 11/21/2019 4:15pm Location: Semitic Museum, Room 201 6 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Emigration from Paradise: Jewish Stories from Interwar Hungary 11/21/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Emigration from Paradise: Jewish Stories from Interwar Hungary 11/21/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References 11/21/2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References 11/21/2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
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	WIGH Seminar: Steven Press, "Capitalism and German Imperialism before World War I: A Reassessment" 11/25/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm WIGH Seminar: Steven Press, "Capitalism and German Imperialism before World War I: A Reassessment" 11/25/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street		Thanksgiving Recess Thanksgiving Recess 11/27/2019 (All day) to 11/29/2019 (All day)

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Massachusetts Historical Society Founded 1791

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (NELC)

The Peabody Musem of Archaeology and Ethnology

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Romance Languages & Literatures

SoHP - The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past

The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute

Standing Committee in Archaeology at Harvard University

The Program on the Study of Capitalism

Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)

The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH)

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA)

November 2019

November 2019

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Robinson Hall
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Cambridge MA 02138
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Email: history@fas.harvard.edu

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November 2019

November 2019

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History DepartmentRobinson Hall35 Quincy StreetCambridge MA 02138Phone: 617-495-2556Email: history@fas.harvard.edu

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History Department
Robinson Hall
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2556
Email: history@fas.harvard.edu