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 of protecting...

Two central questions motivate Dilemmas of Inclusion: The Political Representation of Muslims in Europe: First, when and how do political parties include minority groups who face hostility from large segments of existing voters? Second, how do secular social democratic parties – the typical agents of minority integration – include groups whose views on social issues such as religion, sexuality and gender equality stand in direct opposition to those adopted in party programs and by core constituents? Dilemmas of Inclusion thus addresses how the multicultural dilemma, i.e., the tensions...

Please note: The Dissertation Workshop is a graduate educational seminar and is open only to graduate students and their advisors

A “fine looking body of women”: Woman Suffragists Develop Their Visual Campaign

Note: Not open to the public. Harvard Faculty, Students and Staff only.

 Come and join us for a Fireside Chat with Diana Loren, Director of Academic Partnerships and Museum Curator of the Harvard Peabody Museum. The talk will focus on the history of anthropological knowledge creation at Harvard and in Chicago during the late 19th century. Refreshments will be served. No RSVP required.

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 The End of Dating? Romance and Courtship among Muslim Javanese Youth

 With Nancy J. Smith Hefner, Department of Anthropology

 Romantic love is going global. Recent ethnographic studies of youth have identified a new emphasis on romantic love and companionate marriage, perceived as...

Activists from the Afrodescendant movement in Latin America, agency representatives and government officials reflect on the achievements and obstacles faced by the antiracist agenda formulated at the Latin American Regional Conference Against Racism (Santiago de Chile, 2000). This symposium is part of a broader effort by the Afro-...

Breaking Iconoclasm: Destroying and Rebuilding Past and Present Heritage

Organized by the Harvard Standing Committee on Archaeology and Bastien Varoutsikos (CNRS)

Wednesday December 2, 2015

4-7pm Fong Auditorium, ...

China’s Slowing Growth and Implications for the Global Economy

China’s stock market correction and currency devaluation sent shock waves through global markets over the summer.  President Xi Jinping on his recent visit said that China’s growth slowdown was a normal development now that China has reached middle income and is rebalancing from an investment-led economy to one based more on innovation on the supply side and consumption on the demand side.  Chinese leaders expect the economy to grow at 7 percent for the...