The Griot Museum of Black History and the Harvard University Commonwealth Project present, In the City: Memories of Black Presence.  This group exhibition reflects the visual perspectives of six St. Louis photographers and filmmakers who documented relevant places, people, and experiences across the ever-changing city. In this virtual event, the In The City Fellows fuse their voices in dialogue that reveals the individual and collective creative process that helped the discover their own unique connection to the land and life of the city. 

Moderated by De Nichols...

Christy Coleman, Executive Director, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History Harvard University

Moderated by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University

American historian Christy Coleman is the distinguished lecturer for the 2021 ...

“Countervailing Power? Capital and Labor, 1948-65.”
Charles S. Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University

Comment:
Rose Kösters, PhD Candidate in History, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands
Prabhu Mohapatra, Professor of History, University of Delhi, India

We will meet at 10:00 AM EST (East Coast United States- please note the new US start time due to daylight savings).

11:00...

“Countervailing Power? Capital and Labor, 1948-65.”
Charles S. Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University

Comment:
Rose Kösters, PhD Candidate in History, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands
Prabhu Mohapatra, Professor of History, University of Delhi, India

We will meet at 10:00 AM EST (East Coast United States- please note the new US start time due to daylight savings).

11:00...

Hosted by the Harvard Environmental History Working Group

In Search of Their Gardens: Toward a Black Feminist Ecocriticism 
Carlyn E. Ferrari (Seattle University) 

For Zoom access information, please email Joyce Chaplin: chaplin [at] fas.harvard.edu

Shannon Pōmaikaʻi Hennessey (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa), "When Loving You Meant Loving America: Interracial Sex, Marriage, Family, and Hawaiʻi’s Statehood

Alison Russell (UM Amherst), "The Posterity of Cherokee Women": Exploring Cherokee Women's Place in the Constitution of 1827”

Michael Kirkpatrick Miller (Cornell), “Religion and Masculinity in Maluku”  

Commentators: Dr. Maile Arvin (University of Utah), PhD/JD Student Sarah Sadlier (Harvard), and Dr. Veronika Kusumaryati (Georgetown)

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ALARI Seminar Series

This presentation will connect the colonial inception of legal systems across the Latin American region that enforced racialized social hierarchies with present-day local discourses on the legal rights of indigenous and black peoples. Starting with an examination of the politics of social hierarchy during colonial times, I will explore how liberal ideas in postcolonial Latin America posed a significant ideological and practical tension for criollo elites: to reconcile their aspiration to be free from the constraints of colonial rule while keeping the legacies...

The establishment of the League of Nations created a new platform for Jewish advocacy and novel modes for its expression. The League and other international organizations became arenas of competition over the Jewish voice: The capacity – and legitimacy – of representing Jewish interests and claims at the international level. In this talk, Rotem Giladi recounts episodes of that contestation and points to its ideological dimension.

Note: This event requires registration. ...

Does the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 election signal the end of populism globally? While some populist leaders, such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, felt emboldened by Trump's presidency, other populist and right-wing movements, including those in France and Germany, were independent of his leadership and remain largely unaffected by his defeat. This seminar will explore the future of populism in Europe, Latin America, and the United States and assess if their fortunes will wax or wane.

Anne Applebaum...

Register in advance for this webinar: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CRmiVBVOSDa5XvfkG-Xs1Q

Justin E. H. Smith is university professor of philosophy at the University of Paris. He is the author, among other books, of Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2015), and co-editor and translator, with Stephen Menn, of Anton Wilhelm Amo: Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body...

Italy, like other European counterparts, aspires to be "color-blind" by not officially acknowledging race and racial differences. The United States, in contrast, is often viewed as "race-obsessed" because race questions are standard throughout institutions. In her upcoming book An Ugly Word: Rethinking "Race" in Italy (co-authored with Marcello Maneri), Ann Morning explores how the treatment of race in a country affects society's perception of people from different ethnic backgrounds. The book's findings are based on interviews with college and vocational school students in three Italian...

Eve M. Troutt Powell
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Eve M. Troutt Powell teaches the history of the modern Middle East and the history of slavery in the Nile Valley and the Ottoman Empire. As a cultural historian, she emphasizes the exploration of literature and film in her courses. She is the author of A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan (University of California, 2003) and the co-editor, with John Hunwick, of The African Diaspora in the...

San Charles Haddad
Author, consultant

Over eighty years of international turmoil, discriminatory agendas, and vicious acts of violence.… this is the haunting Olympic history of Israel and Palestine. Three people living in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem embark on distinct journeys that converge at “the file”; their efforts to admit Palestine to the Olympics in the early twentieth century. Their pivotal roles in history have been purposely omitted from official record, kept secret, or forgotten. Why? Because of the “Nazi Olympics” in 1936 in Berlin. And because of the...