Past Events

Early Modern History Workshop: Pedro Cardim

Oct 22, 2014

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5:00PM EDT

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Robinson Hall, Basement seminar room, 35 Quincy Street

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Pedro Cardim (Universidad Nova, Lisbon) "To obey from afar. Salvador da Bahia’s City Council and the Governance of the Portuguese Atlantic during the Seventeenth Century.” Co-sponsored by the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, Department of...

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CES: Variations on Simone Weil: European and North American Receptions of Her Antisemitica

October 22, 2014

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4:15PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Center for European Studies, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

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Speaker(s): Benjamin Braude, Professor of History, Boston College Sponsor(s): Jews in Modern Europe; Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History; Contemporary Europe Paradoxically Simone Weil was both one of the most polarizing thinkers in the twentieth...

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History Department Special Event: Laura Edwards, Duke University

October 22, 2014

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA

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“Only the Clothes on Her Back: Women, Textiles, and National Development in the Nineteenth-Century United States” Laura Edwards is a Professor of History at Duke University.

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Radcliffe Institute: Searching for Atmospheric Signatures of Other Worlds

Oct 22, 2014

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4:00PM EDT

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Radcliffe Yard

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Mercedes Lopez-Morales, 2014-2015 fellow

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CES: The Policy Impact of Populist Right-Wing Parties

October 22, 2014

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12:15PM - 1:45PM EDT

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Center for European Studies, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

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Speaker(s): Michael Klitgaard, Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University Sponsor(s): Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe Contact(s): Arthur Goldhammer, art.goldhammer@gmail.com

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Hutchins Center: Toussaint Louverture As a Slave - the Early Years of the Haitian Revolution's Most Celebrated Leader - Philippe Girard

Oct 22, 2014

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12:00PM EDT

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Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

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Book Discussion / Signing - Mo Moulton, Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England

October 21, 2014

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7:00PM - 8:00PM EDT

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Harvard Coop, Level 3, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02238

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Mo Moulton, Associate Director of Studies in History and Literature and Lecturer in the History Department, will be reading from her book, Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, at the Harvard Coop. There’s sure to be a lively discussion, so please...

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CES: "Landscapes of History" by Vivien Schmidt

October 21, 2014

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7:00PM - 8:00PM EDT

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CES, Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery & Atrium, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

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Reception and opening of new gallery exhibit "Landscapes of History" by Vivien Schmidt CES will host an opening reception for a new art exhibit at the Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery. "Landscapes of History" features the Italian land- and cityscape photography...

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CES: The 2014 Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture: “Italy's Great War: A Centennial Perspective”

October 21, 2014

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5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT

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Center for European Studies, lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

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Speaker(s): Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University The Salvemini Colloquium is named in honor of the Italian anti-fascist historian who spent much of his career as a professor in the Harvard Department of History...

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DRCLAS: Brazil Studeis Program Seminar: "Dilma’s Year of Living Dangerously: The 2014 Elections in Brazil"

Oct 21, 2014

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12:00PM EDT

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CGIS South Building, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

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DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar "Dilma’s Year of Living Dangerously: The 2014 Elections in Brazil" Timothy J. Power University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies; University of Oxford Frances Hagopian Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Professor for...

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Mahindra Humanities Center: "The Stirring of Culture"

Oct 20, 2014

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6:00PM EDT

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Barker Center Room 110

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A conversation about the arts, citizenship, and the state. Moderator: Homi Bhabha - Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center Speakers: Sugata Bose - Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Antanas Mockus - President of...

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Conversations in the Observatorio: Fernandez-Armesto and the Hispanic History of the United States

October 20, 2014

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5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT

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Observatorio. 2 Arrow St. 4th fl. Cambridge, MA. 02138

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto, acuarela de Miguel Ángel Fernández Felipe Fernández-­Armesto, a British historian of Spanish heritage at the University of Notre Dame, recasts the pilgrimage of Hispanics in the United States as a rich and moving chronicle for...

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