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November 2019

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					Senior Thesis Conference (Day 2) Senior Thesis Conference (Day 2) 11/1/2019 (All day) Location: History Conference Room (125) and Basement Conference Room (B-21), Robinson Hall
“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 Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice 11/14/2019 4:00pm Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice 11/14/2019 4:00pm Location: CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street 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 Iranian Elements in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (Secretum secretorum) 11/15/2019 5:00pm Iranian Elements in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (Secretum secretorum) 11/15/2019 5:00pm Location: Room 024, Barker Center
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: Michael Ralph, "Insurance and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" 11/18/2019 4:00pm to 6:00pm WIGH Seminar: Michael Ralph, "Insurance and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" 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	“Familial Attachments: Respectable Citizenship and Queer Filipino Canadian Critique” 11/19/2019 9:45am to 11:45am “Familial Attachments: Respectable Citizenship and Queer Filipino Canadian Critique” 11/19/2019 9:45am to 11:45am Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room “Guns for the Youth of Zimbabwe:” Race, Violence, and Protest in Cold War Germany 11/19/2019 5:00pm “Guns for the Youth of Zimbabwe:” Race, Violence, and Protest in Cold War Germany 11/19/2019 5:00pm Location: History Department Conference Room (#125), 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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	Sustainable Utopias: The German Antidote to a Postwar Melancholy 11/20/2019 5:00pm Sustainable Utopias: The German Antidote to a Postwar Melancholy 11/20/2019 5:00pm Location: History Department Conference Room (#125), 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (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: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, 02138 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	American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context 11/21/2019 11:00am to 6:00pm American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context 11/21/2019 11:00am to 6:00pm Location: The Morgan Courtroom (Austin 308) #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 Digging up Empire's Roots: Family Genealogy in the Archives of Indenture 11/21/2019 4:15pm Digging up Empire's Roots: Family Genealogy in the Archives of Indenture 11/21/2019 4:15pm Location: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 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: Harvard Business School, Chao Center, Room 300 "Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet" 11/25/2019 5:00pm to 7:00pm "Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet" 11/25/2019 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: CGIS Knafel, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge St., 02138		Thanksgiving Recess Thanksgiving Recess 11/27/2019 (All day) to 11/29/2019 (All day)