Speaker:
Daniel B. Schwartz
Associate Professor of History, Columbian College of Arts and Scinces

Chair:
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; President, American Academy for Jewish Research

Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, the site of the first ghetto in...

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This lecture aims to reorient Jewish history by outlining a comprehensive account of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights. Ranging from the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, it will tell the ongoing story of how Jews have gained and kept, lost and recovered rights in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the United States and Israel. Emancipation was not a one-time or linear event but a complex, multi-directional and ambiguous process characterized by deflections and reversals, defeats and successes, triumphs and tragedies.... Read more about Jewish Emancipation Reimagined

The 2019 Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture will focus on the figure and the intellectual legacy of Primo Levi. Following the discussion, all guests are invited to join the reception in the CES Atrium.

Primo Levi (1919-1987) is considered one of the greatest witnesses of the Jewish extermination and one of the most authoritative voices of the literature of the 20th century. As a chemist, Levi used the scientist's microscope lenses to investigate the darker sides of human action.

His works have been translated into more than 40 languages...

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Speaker:
Edith Sheffer
Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies, The University of California, Berkeley

Chairs:
Maya Jasanoff
Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Alison Frank Johnson
Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar...

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This event will feature Dr. Stuart Schrader (Johns Hopkins University), in conversation with Professor Kirsten Weld, to discuss his new book, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (University of California Press, 2019)

Robert Diaz (University of Toronto)
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies”

Denise Khor (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies”

Speaker: Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez (Emory University)

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies”

Postdoctoral Fellows Christina Davidson, Kristina Shull, Hannah Waits, and Courtney Sato will offer brief presentations of their work and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies.

2019 Annual Robert and Florence Dreben lecture
Ruth Calderon, Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, Harvard Law School

Dr. Ruth Calderon is one of Israel’s leading figures in the effort to revive Hebrew culture and sustain a pluralistic Israeli-Jewish identity and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in January 2013. She became a national celebrity when she taught a page of Talmud in the Israeli parliament, arguing that the text was the heritage of the entire Jewish people. She is founder and former director of...

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Reflections by:
Professor Boaz Barak
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University
Dr. Ofrit Liviatan
Lecturer on law and politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
Professor Abraham Loeb
Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
Professor Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Harvard University


Moderated by
Dr. Irit Aharony...Read more about Reading Amos Oz Through Many Eyes

Maya Arad, Hebrew author and writer in residence at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University, will discuss her novella The Hebrew Teacher, a portrait of an individual and a discipline at a significant turning point in their life.

This lecture is free and open to the public

"The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents Harriet, the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Following the film, David B. Wilkins, the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies...

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Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents We Call BS, a film in progress, features Emma Gonzalez, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when she gave a powerful speech at an anti-gun rally on February 18, 2018, calling "BS" on lawmakers and gun advocates.

Following the film, Robb Moss, Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard, converses with Us Kids director Kim Snyder, Us Kids producer Maria Cuomo Coles, David...

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Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents The Biggest Little Farm, directed by John Chester and starring John and Molly Chester, follows two dreamers and a dog on an odyssey to bring harmony to both their lives and the land.  John and Molly Chester make a choice that takes them out of the city and onto 200 acres in the foothills of Ventura County, naively endeavoring to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete...

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