Join the authors of Tangible Things in a lively conversation about Harvard "stuff": the books, manuscripts, artwork, scientific specimens, ethnographic artifacts, and historical relics found in the University's world-class collections.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University

Ivan Gaskell, Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts in the Harvard Art Museum, and Senior Lecturer on History, Harvard...

Vincent Debaene, Columbia University
Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur? Cotonou, 1935
Synopsis

This talk will nuance the commonly held narrative that the emergence of Francophone African literature during the French colonial period was a reaction to Western views of Africa in general, and to the discourse of colonial anthropology in particular. The analysis of two cases studies will complicate the idea that these writings are mere responses to European discourses and shed light on the complexity of early Francophone writers' engagement with anthropological knowledge. (...

Jean-Paul Montagnier, Université de Lorraine, France, and McGill University
The Choirbook Tradition in France from the Early 17th Century to the Eve of the Revolution (ca. 1780)

This seminar will focus on a precirculated paper. For details about the paper please write to histbook@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the History of the Book seminar.
- See more at: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/choirbook-tradition-france-early-17th-century-eve-revolution-ca-1780-0#sthash.CK2QD1rE.dpuf

Charles Donahue,Harvard Law School

A Talk by Joseph Boone (USC)

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over 400 years. This story, when put into contrapuntal interplay with...

The History of Energy and the Environment

 The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University.

 A presentation of research by conference participants and Harvard University scholars will run concurrently in the CGIS South Concourse. The projects will be on display all day Thursday,...

Co-sponsored with the Center for African Studies and the Department of African and African American Studies

Free and open to the public.

See the CON-IH 16 Website for updates.

CON-IH 16

International and Economic History: The Global Dimension

Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016; Friday, March 11, 2016

Location: Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 

About
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) has developed into an annual event, organized by graduate students in ...

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.