Fellows' Presentation

Part of the 2017–2018 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Sophie...

A Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary Event

June Millicent Jordan (1936–2002) called herself a “dissident American poet,” and she counted among her forebears powerful voices ranging from Walt Whitman to Phyllis Wheatley. She began writing verse at the age of seven; her papers at the Schlesinger Library contain stunning material about the girlhood that prefaced her remarkable career as creator and critic, educator, and activist.

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger and the 75th anniversary of...

Lara Freidenfelds

“Your Baby on Day 33”: Pregnancy Development Timelines

from Nineteenth-Century Maternity Guides to Twenty-First Century Apps...

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Williams College ALEXANDER BEVILACQUA for a discussion of his new book, The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment.

About The Republic of Arabic Letters

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the...

GSAS Workshop - Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome

Prof. Dean Hammer (Franklin and Marshall)

Nicholas R. Jones, Bucknell University

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

See also: Department Events

Dacia Maraini, Author

Lauro de Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

https://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/dacia-maraini-author-%E2%80%9Ctranslating-dacia-maraini-panel-discussion-translation%E2%80%9D?admin_panel=1

See the HLS Website for more information.

On February 26, the Supreme Court will hear Oral Argument in Janus v. AFSCME, a case that is widely speculated to imperil fair share fees charged to workers in the public sector who benefit from union representation but are not members. Earlier this...

Mary D. Lewis, Jan Kubasiewicz and Bettina Burch

For information about the exhibit, see the CES website.

Jewish Cultures and Societies

Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University

Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies seminar, the Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Economic History Workshop

Speaker:

Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics,...

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

Speaker:

Franziska Seraphim, Associate Professor of History; Director of Asian Studies, Boston College.

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

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Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics

Speaker:

Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Contact:

Isade Salcedo
...

Economic History Workshop

Speaker:
Donna Feir, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.

Contact:
Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:
Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee...

Politics and Social Change Workshop

Speaker:

Zine Magubane, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Peggy Levitt, Associate. Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.

Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate...