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February 2020

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	Landscaping Language: Biblical Constructions of Borders and Identities in the Iron Age Shephelah 2/3/2020 4:00pm Landscaping Language: Biblical Constructions of Borders and Identities in the Iron Age Shephelah 2/3/2020 4:00pm Location: Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138		IAAS Lecture Series - Monastic Wealth in Qing China’s Buddhist Inner Asia 2/5/2020 1:15pm to 2:30pm IAAS Lecture Series - Monastic Wealth in Qing China’s Buddhist Inner Asia 2/5/2020 1:15pm to 2:30pm Location: CGIS-South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138	Jewish Emancipation Reimagined 2/6/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Jewish Emancipation Reimagined 2/6/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall	"Reading Leo Strauss Reading Aristophanes" 2/7/2020 3:00pm to 4:30pm "Reading Leo Strauss Reading Aristophanes" 2/7/2020 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138	Life on the Edge: Borders and Boundaries in East Asia » Life on the Edge: Borders and Boundaries in East Asia 2/8/2020 (All day) to 2/9/2020 (All day) Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
The 23rd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference: Life On The Edge: Borders And Boundaries In East Asia » The 23rd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference: Life On The Edge: Borders And Boundaries In East Asia 2/8/2020 (All day) to 2/9/2020 (All day)

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« Life on the Edge: Borders and Boundaries in East Asia Life on the Edge: Borders and Boundaries in East Asia 2/8/2020 (All day) to 2/9/2020 (All day) Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.	"The Origins of the Pig Taboo in Judaism: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees" 2/10/2020 4:00pm "The Origins of the Pig Taboo in Judaism: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees" 2/10/2020 4:00pm Location: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 WIGH Seminar: "Oil, Casinos, and Indigenous Capitalism: A History of the Seminoles from Oklahoma to Florida" 2/10/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm WIGH Seminar: "Oil, Casinos, and Indigenous Capitalism: A History of the Seminoles from Oklahoma to Florida" 2/10/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, History Department Conference Room	“Media Intifada: Palestine and Media Activism in the United States” 2/11/2020 9:45am to 11:45am “Media Intifada: Palestine and Media Activism in the United States” 2/11/2020 9:45am to 11:45am Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room Faculty Meeting 2/11/2020 3:00pm Faculty Meeting 2/11/2020 3:00pm Comedy or Leadership? A Conversation with Activist-Turned-Comedian 2/11/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Comedy or Leadership? A Conversation with Activist-Turned-Comedian 2/11/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, RM102 Cambridge, MA 02138 Distinguished Lecture by Megan Kate Nelson 2/11/2020 6:30pm to 8:00pm Distinguished Lecture by Megan Kate Nelson 2/11/2020 6:30pm to 8:00pm Location: Barker Center, Room 110	Xenophobia: A Racial History of the United States 2/12/2020 1:00pm to 2:30pm Xenophobia: A Racial History of the United States 2/12/2020 1:00pm to 2:30pm Location: Carpenter Center Theater HIGHS Seminar: Keisha N. Blain, "'East Unites with West': African American Women’s Visions of Japan in the Early Twentieth Century" 2/12/2020 3:45pm HIGHS Seminar: Keisha N. Blain, "'East Unites with West': African American Women’s Visions of Japan in the Early Twentieth Century" 2/12/2020 3:45pm Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room Program in Islamic Law Open House 2/12/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm Program in Islamic Law Open House 2/12/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Austin 102		Harvard-Princeton Early Modern Grad Conference in Early Modern History: “From Extracting Treasure to Creating Knowledge: Early Modernities” Harvard-Princeton Early Modern Grad Conference in Early Modern History: “From Extracting Treasure to Creating Knowledge: Early Modernities” 2/14/2020 (All day) to 2/15/2020 (All day) Location: Location change! See posting for more information
« The 23rd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference: Life On The Edge: Borders And Boundaries In East Asia The 23rd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference: Life On The Edge: Borders And Boundaries In East Asia 2/8/2020 (All day) to 2/9/2020 (All day)
History Faculty Meeting, 3-4:30pm (Closed event) 2/9/2020 3:00pm to 4:30pm History Faculty Meeting, 3-4:30pm (Closed event) 2/9/2020 3:00pm to 4:30pm
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	Presidents’ Day (University Holiday) Presidents’ Day (University Holiday) 2/17/2020 (All day)	"The Diffusion of Heliocentrism in the Early Modern World: A View from Istanbul" with comment by Valentina Pugliano (MIT, STS) 2/18/2020 12:00pm "The Diffusion of Heliocentrism in the Early Modern World: A View from Istanbul" with comment by Valentina Pugliano (MIT, STS) 2/18/2020 12:00pm Location: Science Center 252 Senior Faculty Meeting 2/18/2020 3:00pm Senior Faculty Meeting 2/18/2020 3:00pm Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia 2/18/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia 2/18/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Public Gathering Room (S030)	Department Seminar: “The Public Face of History,” Mark Elliott & Kirsten Weld: “The Historian Confronting Political Controversies” 2/19/2020 3:00pm Department Seminar: “The Public Face of History,” Mark Elliott & Kirsten Weld: “The Historian Confronting Political Controversies” 2/19/2020 3:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (#125), 35 Quincy Street	(Book Talk) “Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.” 2/20/2020 12:00pm to 2:00pm (Book Talk) “Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.” 2/20/2020 12:00pm to 2:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room Girlhood and the Making of American Catholicism 2/20/2020 12:00pm Girlhood and the Making of American Catholicism 2/20/2020 12:00pm Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 119, Harvard Divinity School History Reconsidered: Poetry Reading with Clint Smith 2/20/2020 4:15pm History Reconsidered: Poetry Reading with Clint Smith 2/20/2020 4:15pm Location: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Bacterial Turn in Yiddish Literature: Two Case Studies 2/20/2020 4:30pm The Bacterial Turn in Yiddish Literature: Two Case Studies 2/20/2020 4:30pm Location: Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffman Room, 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Citizenship in Crisis: The Anti-CAA Protests and the Future of India 2/20/2020 5:00pm to 7:00pm Citizenship in Crisis: The Anti-CAA Protests and the Future of India 2/20/2020 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: TSAI Auditorium, CGIS South Distinguished Lecture by Kirsten Weld 2/20/2020 6:00pm to 7:30pm Distinguished Lecture by Kirsten Weld 2/20/2020 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Barker Center, Room 110	Beyond Boundraries: Trans-Regional Movements of Texts, Ideas, and People Beyond Boundraries: Trans-Regional Movements of Texts, Ideas, and People 2/21/2020 (All day) to 2/22/2020 (All day) Location: Tsia Auditorium, CGIS-S010, 1730 Cambridge St.
	Family Separation and the U.S, Then and Now: Film Screening & Panel Discussion 2/21/2020 1:00pm to 5:00pm Family Separation and the U.S, Then and Now: Film Screening & Panel Discussion 2/21/2020 1:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Tufts University (See event posting for more location information)
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	WIGH Seminar: "Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam" 2/24/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm WIGH Seminar: "Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam" 2/24/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, History Department Conference Room Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979) 2/24/2020 5:30pm to 7:00pm Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979) 2/24/2020 5:30pm to 7:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Image of O in Othello and English Printers' Devices." 2/24/2020 5:30pm "The Image of O in Othello and English Printers' Devices." 2/24/2020 5:30pm Location: Barker Center 133	“Dying in Diaspora” 2/25/2020 9:45am to 11:45am “Dying in Diaspora” 2/25/2020 9:45am to 11:45am Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room	Lunch Talk: Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example 2/26/2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm Lunch Talk: Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example 2/26/2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: Austin Hall, Room 102 Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town 2/26/2020 12:30pm to 1:30pm Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town 2/26/2020 12:30pm to 1:30pm Location: S030 (Lee Gathering Room), CGIS South Book Talk: “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, And The Challenge Of Solidarity” 2/26/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Book Talk: “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, And The Challenge Of Solidarity” 2/26/2020 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: TSAI Auditorium, CGIS South	"Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France" 2/27/2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm "Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France" 2/27/2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm Location: Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3018 Border Inhumanities: A Conversation on the U.S. Southern Border 2/27/2020 6:00pm Border Inhumanities: A Conversation on the U.S. Southern Border 2/27/2020 6:00pm Location: Room 210, Emerson Hall	AAAS 50th Anniversary Symposium AAAS 50th Anniversary Symposium 2/28/2020 (All day) to 2/29/2020 (All day)