CONVERSATIONS IN THE OBSERVATORY
JONATHAN MAYHEW: LORCA’S MODERNIST SELF-FASHIONING

The proposal is to read Lorca's self-creation as a literary artist from the perspective of the postmodern "death of the subject." The result will be to locate this questioning or dissolution of subjectivity in modernism itself (rather than in its later manifestations) and to re-situate Lorca in relation to his modernist contemporaries, like Kafka, Borges, and Pessoa. Prof. Mayhew’s approach presents a challenge to the biographical imperative of Lorca studies, which...

Esther Hamburger, Associate Professor of History, Theory, and Criticism of Film and Television, University of São Paulo; Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

The talk addresses the way in which left and right wing political and legal thinkers came to embrace human rights discourses within the framework of authoritarian regimes. These discourses attempted to defuse a set of constitutional theories that justified repression, coups and/or military governments during the twentieth century. Human rights affected constitutional debates about rights in the 1980s and 1990s, partly in light of the intellectual and social domestic conflicts taking place in different Latin American countries. The talk will focus in the cases of Argentina, Chile...

Join us at the information session for the DRCLAS January Programs in Brazil, Chile and Mexico and learn about the various opportunities available for Harvard students in computer science, public administration, health, government, microfinance, women’s rights, economics, documentary film, entrepreneurship, venture capital and more.

For more information, please contact Yadira Rivera (yrivera@...

Prof. Erdenchuluu Khohchahar
Hakubi, Kyoto University, Japan

Dr. Paolo Sartori
Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna

 Dr. Dittmar Schorkowitz
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a one-day Symposium to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli 1915 Campaign

As part of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies’ program of commemorating the various centenaries associated with the First World War in the Middle East – a conflict as murderous and bloody as that in western Europe – CMES will hold a one-day symposium on the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. This event will include a panel of discussion by several American-based experts in late Ottoman History as well as two Ottoman historians from Germany and from Turkey.

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