China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, began to propagate the “China Dream” in 2013.  At this time, Dr. Crook was living in China, cooperating with the China Charity Federation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to implement charity projects.  He began to observe many wall posters appearing in public spaces from July 2013 onward.  He photographed 272 of these posters which he placed in his collection of 45,000 reports on rural China (1958-2015) and 40,000 plus photographs (1982-2014) now housed in the Brigham Young University Library.  Upon his return to the USA, he began a...

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Dr. Yan Zheng, Associate Research...

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CMES Master's Thesis Presentations

Chairs:
Ian J. Miller, Professor, Harvard University
Paul Warde, Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Speakers:

Lisa M. Brady, Professor, Boise State University and editor, Environmental History

Rania Ghosn, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Edward Melillo, Associate Professor, Amherst College

Sara B. Pritchard, Associate Professor,...

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Each year, outstanding PhD candidates are chosen as Harvard Horizons Scholars and receive targeted mentoring and coaching designed to enhance their presentation skills. The program will culminate in the Harvard Horizons Symposium on May 6, 2015, where Horizons Scholars will deliver brief, compelling talks about their research from...

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 The Annual Raimundo Lida Memorial Lecture

Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge

“The Unbearable Lightness of Bones:

Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz”

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The United States is culminating five years of commemoration of the pivotal events in its history. Dr. Edward Ayers, Civil War scholar and president of the University of Richmond, will explore what we have learned about ourselves and our history during these years, and then offer thoughts about what we still need to learn—and how we might...