Alice Goffman is an American sociologist, urban ethnographer, and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her book, On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City examines the largely hidden world of police beatings, court fees, sentencing hearings, and low level warrants...

In this workshop, Prof. Martinez will provide the teacher of Spanish for heritage learners with an overview of the theoretical struggles surrounding the value of the different language varieties that are used, privileged, or even ridiculed in the Spanish for heritage learners classroom. We will consider various approaches to the...

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The “Observatorio” is hosting an Open House at Harvard to share its projects mapping the Spanish language and Latino Culture in the United States. The Open House will pay tribute to Miguel de Cervantes, on the 400th anniversary of his death, including statements by experts, as well as Gypsy, Jewish, Arabic, and Christian...

Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine present:

COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINE

David G. Satin, M.D., DLFAPA Director

Open to students of history and those valuing a historical perspective on their professions.

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James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor Of Comparative And Foreign Law,
Yale Law School

Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor Of Law,
Florida State University College Of Law

Full title: “‘Not Merely There To Help The Men’: St. John V. General Motors Corp. And Equal Pay Litigation At The Dawn Of American Fair Employment Law”

David Freeman Engstrom, Professor Of Law, Stanford University

Jeremy Kessler, Associate Professor of Law,
Columbia Law School

Alejandro de la Fuente
Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics
Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Jonathan Levy, Associate Professor of History,
Princeton University

*Please note, this session is at a special time.
All other workshops will be 5pm - 7pm.

For more information, see the Weatherhead Center website.

Emer O’Dwyer
Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger...

For more information, see the Weatherhead Center website.

Alexander Zahlten
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Moderator: Susan Pharr...

Danny Orbach
Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S-Japan Relations, Harvard University

“The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 and the Roots of Japanese Military Disobedience”

Andrew Levidis
Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S-Japan Relations, Harvard University

“Japanese Conservatism from the China War to the Great East Asia War (1937-41)”...

Speaker:

Kathy Moon, SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies and Senior Fellow, Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Professor of Political Science and Edith Stix Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies, Wellesley College.

Contact:

William Nehring
wnehring@wcfia.harvard.edu Read more...