Mohammad Fadel, Professor Of Law, University Of Toronto 
Lecture: “Nushuz, Lawful Discipline and Spouse Abuse in the Maliki Madhab: A History and Its Relevance to Modern Islamic Law Reform”

Nisa' 4:34 has received a disproportionate share of commentary among reformist Muslim scholars of this generation insofar as its plain sense appears to affirm the right of the husband not only to discipline a recalcitrant wife, but also to use physical violence to do so. Professor Fadel explores the historical evolution of Maliki...

THURSDAY, MARCH 28
1:15–3:45 pm
Military, Civilians, and the State

4:00–5:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Keith Camacho
“On Native Testimony: Military Tribunals, War Crimes,
and Imperial Judgment in Guam”

FRIDAY, MARCH 29
9:30 am–12:00 pm
Science, Technology, and Warfare

1:00–3:30 pm
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and Militarization

4:00–5:30pm
Plenary Panel
• Professor Keith Camacho, University of California Los Angeles
• Professor Saje Mathieu, University of Minnesota
• Professor Fredrik Logevall, Harvard...

Speaker: Eyal Naveh, Visiting Professor of History and CES Resident Faculty (Spring 2019); Professor of History, Tel Aviv University

Chair: Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History and Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University

In the talk, Naveh will reflect on the experience of contributing to the writing of an Israeli-Palestinian history textbook that ended in a dual narrative structure and method, of which he was involved in the first decade of the 21st century. In addition, Naveh will analyze the process and interpret the goals and...

The Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard invites you to its next event in the Digital Futures Discovery Series showcasing the groundbreaking techniques scholars are developing to tackle the increasingly challenging task of conducting digital research. 

Manually searching through more than 46 million digital records is an intractable research task. This is what lay ahead of Benjamin as a Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as he sought to aggregate the death certificate ref­erence cards of individuals who perished in con­...

Free Public Lecture

Christian E. Loeben, Egyptologist and Keeper of Egyptian and Islamic Arts, Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany

The oldest documented gardens in the world are from ancient Egypt. Gardens were described in hieroglyphic texts and depicted in paintings, and many have been recovered through archaeology. From these sources we know that ancient Egyptians maintained gardens at temples and tombs, as well as at royal palaces and local residences. Drawing on comparisons among paintings of gardens from over fifty...

 "The 'New Scramble for Africa' from a European Perspective: A Crisis of Chain Governance Similar to the 1970s?"

Johannes Knierzinger
Visiting Scholar, 2018-2019, WIGH; Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

The seminar paper is available one week ahead of time by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Slave Economy in Campinas: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Long 19th Century. A Proposal for Expanding the Concept of Second Slavery."

Felipe Alfonso, WIGH Global Fellow; PhD Candidate, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

(no precirculated paper, just an informal presentation by Felipe. Lunch will be available.)

"The 'Ottomanization' of Europe: The Politics of International Financial Control in the 1920s"

Jamie Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of History and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

The seminar paper will be available by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

"Agents of Empire: Peasant Migration from Austrian Bukovina and Galicia to the New World"

Cristina Florea
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Albany.

The seminar paper is available by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

Eram Alam, Assistant Professor of History of Science, Harvard University

In 1965, the United States invited thousands of physicians from other countries to fill vacancies that could not be filled with American doctors. While this strategy was meant to be a short-term solution, it became a permanent feature of the U.S. health care system. Today, one quarter of practicing doctors in the U.S. are International Medical Graduates. Eram Alam will discuss the sociopolitical circumstances that encouraged physician migration to the U.S., the enduring consequences...

Please join us for a public presentation of findings by student researchers from the Harvard and Slavery Seminar.

Presenters:
Jake Ascher ’19 on Harvard’s Ceremonial Silver
Julie Ngauv ’20 on The Perkins Family Legacy
Drew Mammel ’21 on Slavery and Architecture at Elmwood
Sarah Kolenbrander GSE on a Walking Tour of Harvard and Slavery

Free and Open to the Public 
Sponsored by the Harvard and Slavery Project

The Color Pynk:
Janelle Monáe, Janet Mock, and Black Femme Futures

2019 Matthiessen Lecture by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street

Free and open to the public / Talk followed by a reception

This talk engages black femme-inist imaginations in Janelle Monáe’s music...

Featuring a newly commissioned body of work, Liz Magor: BLOWOUT will be the Canadian artist’s first East Coast institutional solo exhibition. Co-organized by the Carpenter Center and the Renaissance Society, the exhibition will first be on view in Cambridge and then travel to the Chicago. Liz Magor’s (b. 1948) sculpture quietly dramatizes the relationships that develop between objects. Often playing soft against hard, she pairs care with exposure. Adhering to exacting processes of casting, fabrication, and hand-made techniques, Magor raises...

Join the Harvard Glee Club for The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois! Du Bois was a titan in American history and Harvard’s first black Ph.D. recipient.

Our concert will honor both the man and his contributions to the movement for African American equality.

• Experience a choral interpretation of The Souls of Black Folk, with historic spirituals mentioned in the book....

The Harvard Law School Annual Lecture on Latin American and European Legal History

Speaker: 

Thomas Duve
Director, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Professor of Comparative Legal History, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Sponsored by The International Academic Program – Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid and Fundación Asisa

**This event is open to the public**