Speaker:
Mathieu Hauchecorne
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Paris 8

Chair: 
David Armitage
Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate & Semianr Co-chair, Harvard University

Before John Rawls eventually entered the French canon of philosophy, he had attracted close attention in French public debate, as well...

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Talk Title: "From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: The U.S. Military, Infrastructural Development, and the Origins of South Korea’s Export Boom"

Speaker: Patrick Chung, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland

This paper examines the U.S. military’s development of the South Korean port city of Busan. The city would become the center of UN military logistical operations during the Korean War, as massive quantities of soldiers and supplies...

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In conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, New Orleans–based photographers Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun will discuss their decades-long, expansive documentary work that explores criminal and environmental justice, the history of slavery, and African American life and culture in the American South. They will be joined in conversation by Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, and John Stauffer, the Sumner R...

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Speakers
Paul Reitter
Professor of History, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University

Peter E. Gordon
Amabel B. James Professor of History & CES Resident Faculty and Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Sponsors
-Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History...

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The recently released documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, is an artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller. The film examines Morrison's life, works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. It features interviews with Morrison and a number of her peers, critics, and colleagues, including HDS’s Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America.

HDS is hosting a screening of the film. Carrasco will give an introduction, and there there will be a Q&A and panel discussion with...

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Abstract: Thousands of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic legal documents from medieval Egypt and Syria survived in the Cairo Geniza. This talk will zoom in on the earliest layer of this corpus, which offers indirect clues to a lost history of Judaism during the first Islamic centuries.

Speaker biography: Eve Krakowski is an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is a social historian of the medieval Middle East and its Jewish populations, interested especially in family life and in the mundane settings of...

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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.