For more information on FAS Faculty Meetings, please see the following link: https://www.fas.harvard.edu/news/harvard-college-spring-2021-plan Read more about Wellness Day

More information on shopping week can be found here: https://registrar.fas.harvard.edu/shopping-week-registration#dates Read more about Shopping Week

 

Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk

Song Lihong (Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2020-21)

Chair/discussant: David Stern (Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University)

The late Irene Eber (1929-2019), professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a long-time affiliate of the...

Read more about Trauma and Transcendence: the Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist

Join us for the Program in Islamic Law’s Academic Year 2020-2021 Book Talk Webinar Series!

On Tuesday, December 8, Dr. Nathan Spannaus (University of Jyväskylä, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy) will speak on his new book,...

Read more about Dr. Nathan Spannaus Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism

Join us as we explore different ways to study social change. Cluster Chair Michèle Lamont will speak, and also moderate the Q&A session. She will be joined by four members of the Cluster Steering Committee.

Speakers:

Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Department of...

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​Felipe Loureiro, Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

The six members of the ...

Read more about Global History, Globally Seminar Series: "Making the Alliance for Progress for A Few: U.S. Economic Aid to Brazilian States in Cold War Brazil (1961-1964)"

Hatice Yildiz, WIGH Fellow;  Lecturer in Modern Gender History, University of Edinburgh

Graduate Student Commentator: TBA

Faculty Commentator: ...

Read more about The Temporalities of Work: Labor Patterns and Politics in Bombay Cotton Mills, 1875 - 1900

The Dissertation Workshop is a graduate educational seminar open only to graduate students and their advisors. CES invites graduates students who are interested in attending this workshop or in presenting their research, to contact CES Dissertation Workshop coordinators Clare Bradford Anderson and Armando Miano. All workshops will be held virtually during the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom...

Read more about After the Dutch Paradox: Jews and Non-Jews in the Netherlands (1940–1945)

Speaker: Shmuel Feiner, Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University; Chair, The Historical Society of Israel

Chair: Derek J. Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

The 18th century was the first modern century in Jewish history. The deep changes that took place over its course shaped the...

Read more about The Jewish Eighteenth Century and the Transformative Year 1782

You are all warmly invited to the last Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies seminar of the semester.

December 8th at 11am (Eastern), Andrea Frisch (Dept of French & Italian, University of Maryland), will be presenting, "Between Fait-divers and Grand récit: The French Wars of Religion and the Genres of Historiography in the Sixteenth Century." We hope to see you there! Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson@g.harvard.edu) or...

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The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs

 

" The Politics of Beauty: Modernization Theory, Comparativism, and the Empress of Iran"

 

Perin Gürel, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Catherine Boyle, Harvard University

 

This session will take place on Zoom.

Please register in...

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Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.

Speaker: Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

To register for the event, click here.

Event contact: Nate Herter (nherter@g.harvard.edu)

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Speaker: Curtis Evans (The University of Chicago Divinity School)

Regeister for a Zoom link here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrc-iqpjoiEtUjXcyhTucrShrbspEOd8z_
To access the speakers paper, please email cwc@fas.harvard.edu
 

Read more about The Anti-Lynching Campaign of the Federal Council of Churches