Life of Pi begins with Pi Patel and his family escaping from India in 1975 at the start of The Emergency, a two-year period of violent political unrest that overtook the country for nearly two years. Join us for a dynamic conversation with Harvard University Professor Sugata Bose who will reflect on how The Emergency began and the long-lasting effects of one of the most impactful periods in modern Indian history.

A.R.T.’s Civically Speaking series features virtual conversations, lectures...

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This is limited to the Harvard Community (Harvard Key Required for Zoom).

Dr. Jodie Marshall
Michigan State University

In-person: Harvard Center for African Studies, 1280 Mass Ave, 3rd Floor, Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138

To register on Zoom, click here. 

 

The Institute for Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety will host a moderated panel conversation on AAAS Professor Tommie Shelby’s newest book, The Idea of Prison Abolition. The event will feature Tommie...

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Speaker: Andrew Konove (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring”

For the access the circulated reading(s), please visit the original listing by clicking here. You can also contact the Warren Center at, cwc@fas.harvard.edu

Read more about "The Prelude to Our Dissolution": Paper Money and National Sovereignty in Mexico's First Empire (1822-1823)

This event will be in-person & live-streamed on YouTube
In-person location: Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3r, Cambridge, MA
To view on YouTube, click here.

Jim Downs, Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of...

Read more about Jim Downs, 'Dead in the Water: A New Origin Story of Public Health'

The Recovery of Phoenician Intellectual History: Problems and Insights

The Phoenicians pose for us a fascinating puzzle and object of study. Belonging broadly to the Canaanite cultural zone, they made their mark well beyond the Levant, indeed across the entire Mediterranean. Yet the study of their culture is awkwardly situated between disciplines (Classics, Near Eastern and Biblical Studies, Iron Age Archaeology), and is only slowly breaking out from a hyperspecialized niche. As our knowledge of their material culture is rapidly increasing, their intellectual...

Read more about Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago)

Speaker: Trevor Jackson (George Washington University)

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on "Capitalism’s Hardwiring"

Please contact the Charles Warren Center for access to the workshop paper. cwc@fas.harvard.edu 

Read more about From Commodity Gluts to General Gluts: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008

Speaker:Blair Lm Kelley
Professor of History and Alumni Association
Distinguised Graduate Professor
North Carolina State University

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop Series

Registration required via Eventbrite
Lunch will be provided

On Tuesday, November 1, 2022 from 9am- 12pm EST, in a live webinar over Zoom for our Roundtable on the... Read more about Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law

Author Rita Copeland, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses her new book Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2022) with ... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

This event will be in-person only

Jeffrey Murray, Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town

Classics in Natal, 1843-2000

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Learn more about the panelists and moderator here:

Sven Beckert: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/sven-beckert

Vincent Brown: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/vincent-brown

Tomiko Brown-Nagin: https://dso.college.harvard.edu/people/alta-mauro-phd

Annette Gordon-Reed: ...

Read more about FAS Panel on the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative

Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University, School of History

 

Yavuz Aykan is an Associate Professor of early modern history at Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne University’s School of History. Before joining Sorbonne’s School of History, he taught history and paleography classes at Boğaziçi and Koç Universities in Istanbul, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. He was a residential fellow at the Centre for ‘Work and Human Lifecycle in...

Read more about Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput

Kelly Wisecup is a literary and cultural historian whose work brings together early American studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and histories of books and archives. Across several books and digital projects, her research seeks to understand the many avenues through which Indigenous peoples—published authors and otherwise—created, interacted with, used, and read books, manuscripts, newspapers, and other texts.  Her recent scholarship traces relationships between 18-19^th -century Indigenous literatures and colonial archives,...

Read more about "Sovereignty on the Page: A Birchbark Booklet & Histories of Native American Literature"

Speaker: Devin Fergus (University of Missouri)

Title: "Inconveniences of Capitalism"
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring”