Outside of Harvard

with Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East Politics at the University of Denver School of International Studies This lecture grapples with questions surrounding recent turmoil in the Arab...

'HOUSING FOR ALL?' 3-PART SYMPOSIUM -a new initiative by the CHS, meeting you in the City This fall, the Cambridge Historical Society presents 3 conversations about the past, present, and future of affordable housing in Cambridge. The question, 'Housing...

WORLD HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17 Ada Ferrer, Professor of History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies New York University

WORLD HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17 Eugenia Y. Lean, Associate Professor of East Asian Language-Culture Columbia University

Eula Biss is the author of three books, most recently On Immunity: An Inoculation (2014), which was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction. In On Immunity, Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the...

Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, cartoonist Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities, and surreal imaginings of modern life. Chast’s recent memoir Can’t We...

Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than eighty such public projections internationally. Since the late 1980s, his projections have involved...