Jim Downs, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College.

Commentator: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Westenley Alcenat, PhD candidate at Columbia.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to...

Vanessa Ogle, Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.

Commentator: Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory and Director of the Urban Theory Lab at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Rephael Stern, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID...

João Paolo Garrido Pimenta, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Ruodi Duan, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard....

Commentator: Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Tim Barker, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.

“Long term shifts in labor relations in the United States (1850-2010) using digitized census data”

Rombert Stapel, Global Fellow; Leiden University, the Netherlands.

RSVPs to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu are appreciated.

CONVERSATIONS IN THE OBSERVATORY
JONATHAN MAYHEW: LORCA’S MODERNIST SELF-FASHIONING

The proposal is to read Lorca's self-creation as a literary artist from the perspective of the postmodern "death of the subject." The result will be to locate this questioning or dissolution of subjectivity in modernism itself (rather than in its later manifestations) and to re-situate Lorca in relation to his modernist contemporaries, like Kafka, Borges, and Pessoa. Prof. Mayhew’s approach presents a challenge to the biographical imperative of Lorca studies, which...

Esther Hamburger, Associate Professor of History, Theory, and Criticism of Film and Television, University of São Paulo; Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

The talk addresses the way in which left and right wing political and legal thinkers came to embrace human rights discourses within the framework of authoritarian regimes. These discourses attempted to defuse a set of constitutional theories that justified repression, coups and/or military governments during the twentieth century. Human rights affected constitutional debates about rights in the 1980s and 1990s, partly in light of the intellectual and social domestic conflicts taking place in different Latin American countries. The talk will focus in the cases of Argentina, Chile...

Join us at the information session for the DRCLAS January Programs in Brazil, Chile and Mexico and learn about the various opportunities available for Harvard students in computer science, public administration, health, government, microfinance, women’s rights, economics, documentary film, entrepreneurship, venture capital and more.

For more information, please contact Yadira Rivera (yrivera@...