Digital Methods and Silence in the Archives of Native Women's History

Speaker:  Annabelle Allouch Visiting Scholar, CES
Sponsor: Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion
Contact: Jonathan Mijs, mijs@fas.harvard.edu

Harvard Library archival and manuscript collections include hundreds of thousands of items dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, representing a major source of largely untapped primary sources for scholars of British and North American history.

From political commentary to scientific explorations to records of daily life, these collections are rich resources for the continuing study of the Atlantic world over these two centuries. Drawing from over 1,600 relevant collections at 12 Harvard repositories, we are undertaking a multi-year project funded by Arcadia to survey, process/...

Phillip John Usher, New York University
Renaissance Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/new-world-mining-humanist-anthropocene

Christopher Edward Brown, Ph.D. Candidate in Italian:  A Dissertation Defense

WRITING TIME: DANTE, PETRARCH, AND TEMPORALITY

http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/christopher-edward-brown-phd-candidate-italian-dissertation-defense?delta=0

Virginie Greene , Harvard University, 
Hélinand de Froidmont, Jean Bodel, and J. L. Austin, or, The Power of Medieval Poetry.
English Department Medieval Colloquium

http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/english-department-medieval-colloquium-4?delta=0

For Details, see the BU website: http://www.bu.edu/rs/2015/10/08/the-sense-of-an-ending-reflections-on-the-death-of-don-quixote/

"Spanglish" is a mixture of bilingual language analyzed in the United States by researchers who live within this social and linguistic reality. Now, how is it interpreted from external environments? What other realities the "Spanglish" presents beyond American communities? What is the opinion of European researchers about this linguistic and cultural phenomenon? The conversation, moderated by Maria Luisa Parra (Harvard University), includes the participation of Angel Lopez Garcia-Molins (University of Valencia), Silvia Betti (University of...

Book Launch: The Legacies of Totalitarianism: A Theoretical Framework

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Sliver of a Full Moon
November 19, 2015 | 6:30 PM–9 PM
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Sliver of a Full Moon is a powerful reenactment of the historical congressional reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 2013: a movement that restored...

Liz Garbus, Director

 "What Happened, Miss Simone?"

 A documentary about the life and legend of Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul." The screening will be followed by Q&A with director Liz Garbus.

Free and open to the public. ...