Department Seminars

2024 Feb 29

The Colonial Analogy and the Political Economy of Black Power

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, Warren Center Conf. Room (#B21), 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Speaker: Sam Klug (Loyola University, Maryland)

Presented by the Warren Center’s Seminar on “New Directions in Black Power Studies”

For more information, see the orginal posting here, or contact the Warren Center, cwc@fas.harvard.edu

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2024 Apr 10

Prison History as Book History

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History as Book History," Barker Center 133, Harvard. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book
2022 Sep 12

Premodern Race Seminar

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Plimpton Room (# 133), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Premodern Race Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop with three primary goals:

1) To give faculty and graduate students who study the premodern past a space for structured conversation and reading on issues of race, racial identity, racialization, and racism as these bear on our disciplines, not only as historical phenomena but as part of our collective institutional histories.

2) To consider ways to bring these issues into our research, teaching, and departmental and wider institutional activities, as forgotten...

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2022 Feb 15

Department Seminar

(All day)

Location: 

TBA

Open to department members and affiliates. Time, location, and speaker TBA.

2021 Nov 16

Department Seminar

(All day)

Open to department members and affiliates. Time, location, and speaker TBA.