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Fairbank Center: Tasting Chocolate at the Kangxi Court - Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros

Oct 20, 2014
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4:00PM EDT
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CGIS Knafel Building, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
From the Fairbank Center Calendar: Tasting Chocolate at the Kangxi Court: Medicine, Politics, and Global Trade Flows in the 17th Century Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz Cosponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center and...

Warren Center: “The Quest for Equality and Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel.”

October 20, 2014
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Michele Lamont (Harvard University). “The Quest for Equality and Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel.” Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from...

Book Signing: The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall: Mary Elise Sarotte

Oct 17, 2014
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3:00PM EDT
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Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Book Store welcomes Visiting Professor of Government and History at Harvard University MARY ELISE SAROTTE for a discussion of her new book, The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall. On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds...

CES: The Decline of the Left in Europe

October 17, 2014
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT
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Center for European Studies, lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Speaker(s): Josep Borrell, Former President, European Parliament; Jean Monnet Professor, Complutense University; Alexander H. Gourevitch, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University Sponsor(s): EU Law and Government Study Group; Jean Monnet...

CES: A Public Address by Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania

October 16, 2014
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
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JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School
Edi Rama has many faces: an artist, a writer, a sportsman, a politician. During his 11 years as the Mayor of Tirana, Albania’s capital, Edi Rama uplifted Tirana’s post-communist spirit by turning its grey facades into colorful art and fought bribes in the...

Harvard's Gender & Sexuality Seminar Series: HIV Discrimination and Criminalization

October 16, 2014
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT
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Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Speaker Kevin Cathcart is Executive Director of Lambda Legal For more information see the website After Marriage, The Future of LGBT Activism Email: wgssymposia [at] fas.harvard.edu Sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and...

CES: Of Time and the River: France and the Marne

October 16, 2014
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4:15PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Speaker(s): Michael Miller , Professor of History, University of Miami Sponsor(s): New Directions in European History How does one write the history of a river? In recent decades the prevailing tone to river history has been one of engineering, power, and...

Radcliffe Institute: Poetry Reading and Discussion with Gerald Vizenor

Oct 16, 2014
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4:15PM EDT
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Sheerr Room, Fay House 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Gerald Vizenor is a prolific novelist, poet, literary critic, and citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota. He is the author and editor of more than 30 books, including Blue Ravens (2014), Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku...