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2016 Feb 08

Warren Center: American Capitalism Workshop: Nicolas Barreyre

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Nicolas Barreyre
Associate Professor in American History (EHESS)

“Our national debt may be a national blessing!': How the Civil War Changed American views on the public debt”

2016 Feb 24

CMES: Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World: "The 'New Turkey' and Individual Freedoms: Is There Still room for Coexistence?"

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents:

Cansu Çamlıbel Writer and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent,  2015-16 Nieman Fellow, Harvard University

Contact: Liz Flanagan

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2016 Mar 09

CES: Timothy Snyder's Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, A Panel Discussion

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
Join author Timothy Snyder and a panel of experts for a discussion of Snyder's latest book, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, which re-interprets the history of the great atrocity of the twentieth century.
Alison Frank Johnson Professor of History, Harvard University
Terry Martin George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis...
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2016 Apr 07

CES: Beyond the Siege: Cultural Traffic between Austrians and Turks in the 20th Century

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room

The 1683 Ottoman siege of Vienna has had a long and malleable cultural afterlife. Central Europeans have 're-written' the siege story in modern times to support Habsburg patriotism, Austrian republicanism, Polish nationalism of the nineteenth century, German nationalism of the twentieth, and post-1960 scares about Muslim immigration. This talk takes up one unexpected chapter in the story: In the 1920s, Turkey became a desired destination for unemployed Austrians. In job seekers’ accounts of their dreams and travails in “the Orient” we find a surprising reversal of the Gastarbeiter...

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2016 Mar 08

CES: The Annual Zaleski Lecture in Modern Polish History: The Holocaust in Poland: Controversies and Explanations

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
Chaired by Grzegorz Ekiert Professor of Government, Harvard University;
Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Timothy Snyder Housum Professor of History, Yale University

Sponsors:...
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2016 Feb 11

CES: Eyes Wide Open: Mobilizing Citizens Against Cultural Crimes

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
Mrs. Hadjitofi, a refugee of the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, served as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Cyprus in The Netherlands and Representative of the Church of Cyprus, where she sought justice for the looting of Cyprus’ cultural heritage through repatriation of its stolen religious artifacts. Her work culminated in the Munich Operation, which led to the arrest of art trafficker Aydin Dikmen and the recovery of over $60 million dollars of stolen antiquities from Turkish-occupied Cyprus. Walk of Truth (WoT) is an NGO that engages the public about the importance...
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2015 Dec 16

CES: Towards a (More) Dynamic Model of Institutional Change: Explaining Politics of Macroeconomic Policy Reform in Turkey in Comparative Southern European Perspective

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
Tolga Bolukbasi Fulbright Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar, CES; Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University
Sponsors: Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe
Contact: Arthur Goldhammer, ...
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