Maurizio Ferraris, Università di Torino, presents his book

Mobilitazione totale   (Laterza).  IN ITALIAN

Respondent: Corrado Confalonieri

Second respondent:  Julianne Van Wagenen

DeBosis Colloquium in Italian Studies- open to the public – seating is limited

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Professor Lawrence Venuti, Temple University

Professor Venuti will analyze the translation of poetry in a minority language, such as Catalan, from the broader perspective of world literature. Sponsors: institut ramon lull and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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Eileen Reeves (Princeton University)

Renaissance Seminar Series, Mahindra Humanities Center

The event will be followed by a small reception.

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/talk-title-tba-29

CHE Spring 2016 Seminars

Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics

Co-sponsor – Harvard University Center for the Environment

*please note this is a Monday seminar 

CHE Spring 2016 Seminars

Surabhi Ranganathan, Kings College, University of Cambridge

Lindsay Jones (Ohio State)

Katherine Spielman (Arizona State)

Jose Cuellar (San Frascisco State University)

Clay ocarinas are thought to be the most common musical instruments used by pre-Columbian societies in Mesoamerica. While little is known about the making and function of these wind instruments—often shaped in animal or human forms—their study reveals that they were associated with both sacred and secular activities. In 2012, musician and ethnologist Jose Cuellar researched the Peabody Museum’s extensive collection of clay ocarinas, flutes, and whistles from archaeological sites throughout Central America and Mexico. In this program he...

Nicolas Swyns (UC Davis)

2016 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture and Reception

Audax Z.P. Mabuella (NMT)

Tanzania hosts a record of more than three million years of human history and diversity, including fossil remains, footprints, and stone toolkits of early humans and hominin ancestors, from sites such as Laetoli, Olduvai Gorge, and Peninj. The National Museum of Tanzania (NMT)—a consortium of six different museums—supports the preservation of the country’s rich natural and cultural diversity through scientific research, education, and...

Chip Wills (University of New Mexico)

Robert Kelly (University of Wyoming)

Speaker: Deirdre Fulton (Baylor)

A Talk by Gilbert Tsotevin, University of Minnesota

The Middle Danube Basin of Central Europe plays a critical role in understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition due to its position as one of the major riverine and environmental corridors by which anatomically modern humans entered a Neanderthal-occupied Europe. Central Europe, however, is noticeably different from Western Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, with its greater diversity of industrial types, i.e., two “transitional” industries (the Bohunician and the Szeletian) rather than one, as with the Châtelperronian...

The First Two Years of the Ancient Methone Archaeological Project

A Lecture by: Sarah P. Morris, UCLA

Sarah Morris (Department of Classics, UCLA) will be giving a Harvard Standing...