Constructing the Index of Arabs - Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia\
Speaker:  Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore

The “Public Face of History” is a year-long series sponsored by the Harvard History Department that aims to stimulate conversation among faculty, students, and the larger community over the challenges historians face in sharing their work with the public. In doing so, the department hopes to highlight the different ways that scholars have deepened historical understanding to a broad audience. Our first talk, “Giving Our Own Times a History,” will center around University of Washington Professor Margaret O’Mara’s recent book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America....

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China

Speaker: Fei Hsien Wang, Indiana University, Bloomington