"Black Slavery and World Accumulation: Towards a Global History of Value"
Tâmis Parron, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Graduate Student Commentators:
Felipe Alfonso, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
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"Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam"
Tithi Bhattacharaya, Professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies, Purdue University

Graduate Student Commentator: ...

"Oil, Casinos, and Indigenous Capitalism: A History of the Seminoles from Oklahoma to Florida"
Mandy M. Izadi, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH; Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History, University of Oxford

Graduate Student Commentators:
Ione Barrows...

The Harvard Law School Annual Lecture on Latin American and European Legal History

Talk Title: Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France

Speaker:
Ada Kuskowski
Assistant Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences

This event is open to the public.

Sponsored by:
The International Academic Program –Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Fundación Asisa, and The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with Dr. Julia Rhyder, Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher at the Theologische Fakultät, entitled “The Origins of the Pig Taboo in Judaism: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees”

Abstract: Pig avoidance is a well-known feature of Judaism today, and yet, strikingly, it is rarely mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In this lecture, Julia...

Speaker: Constanze Guthenke (Oxford University)

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with Dr. Mahri Leonard-Fleckman of the College of the Holy Cross, entitled Landscaping Language: Biblical Constructions of Borders and Identities in the Iron Age Shephelah. Please see the attached flyer.

The Bible’s depictions of the social landscape (such as borders and identities) are remarkably varied. This talk explores the malleability of such perceptions of Israel in relation to “the other,” using...

Originally from France, a night of philosophy and ideas is a marathon of philosophical debate, performances, readings, and music happening overnight.

Boston’s first Night of Philosophy & Ideas at Harvard University will bring together academics from various disciplines, as well as artists, activists, and public intellectuals to address a variety of timely questions around this year’s central theme: Being Alive. What is the good life? What does life mean for us but also for other living creatures? What do we owe to each other? How have recent technological changes affected...

Speaker: Arjen Bakker (University of Oxford, Oriel College)

Dr. Bakker will speak about concepts of time that emerge as expressions of divine thinking and mystery in ancient Jewish texts. Through liturgical activity and the division of time in calendar and chronology these texts reveal the ambition to participate in heavenly structures and divine knowledge. Across the late books of the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls we can see how these concepts played an important role in interpretation, rewriting, collecting and composing new works. This casts light on an...

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) is pleased to present its 23rd Annual Conference. Titled "Life on the Edge," the Conference will be held at the CGIS South Building (Harvard Campus) from February 8th to 9th.

This year's Conference will serve as a platform for graduate students from across the world to present their latest research findings and explore the borders and boundaries that shape East Asia. Featuring papers with topics ranging from Rome to rap music and panels organized by themes such as geopolitics and cinema, we...

This event will highlight the wide-ranging impact of Lorgia García-Peña's scholarship, particularly her acclaimed 2016 book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction. Distinguished speakers will reflect on the significance of her work for multiple fields.

Full schedule and poster

Speaker: Takeo Rivera (Boston University)
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies” 
 

Please contact the Charles Warren Center at the following email to request the workshop paper: cwc@fas.harvard.edu

With the generous support of the Harvard University History of Art and Architecture department, the Graduate Student Lecture Series Committee is excited to announce that on December 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the Sackler Auditorium, Professor Nicola Suthor will present her newest project, 'Macchia as Memory Function: Thought Processes in Renaissance Sketches.'

This is the first event in this year's New Directions in Art History: Lectures in the...

Speaker: Marcelo Ferraro, ALARI Visiting Fellow

Lecture by Chanan Tigay, 2019-2020 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer who has covered the Middle East, 9/11, and the United Nations for such outlets as AFP, the Atlantic, GQ, and the New Yorker. He is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, a member of the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute, and the recipient...