“Contested Landscape: Damascus in Medieval Arabic Descriptions”

Co-sponsors:  Cartography Seminar and the Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/contested-landscape-damascus-medieval-arabic-descriptions

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CLIMATE WEEK

April 6 - 10

Join us for a week-long series of events to explore the many dimensions of climate change across all of Harvard's Schools.

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Spring 2015 Cuban Cinema Series at the Cooper Gallery

 De Cierta Manera / One Way or Another (1974)

 78 min. Spanish, no subtitles. Directed by Sara Gómez.

“This Cuban romantic drama film mixes documentary-style footage with a fictional story that looks at the poor neighborhoods of Havana shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It illustrates the history before the development process in Cuba and demonstrates how tearing down slums and building modern settlements does not immediately change the...

The Francis Biddle Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Robert W. Gordon
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

 *2-part lecture rescheduled from February 9^th.

“Slavery, Dissent, Reconciliation: Harvard Histories,” a wide-ranging public conversation about Harvard’s relationship to the many legacies and memories of the Civil War, featuring Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University), Professor Kellie Carter Jackson (Hunter College), Professor Salamishah Tillet (University of Pennsylvania), and artist Brian Knep (Deep Wounds). Moderated by Timothy Patrick McCarthy.

Admission is free.

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Author’s Talk at the Ash Center

 Leah Wright Rigeur
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

 The Loneliness of the Black Republican

Co-sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy,...

W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium

Kate Masur

Associate professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University
Fellow’s Bio

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Universities aggregate knowledge and specialists, but they also aggregate historical artifacts. Using Harvard University’s extensive collections as a starting point, this conference will assemble its own collection of specialists to explore the history and mission of universities through “university objects.” Each presenter will examine one exemplary holding at Harvard to consider the insights its presence offers into the world of knowledge. Speakers from a wide array of Harvard communities will also address larger questions about universities as unique collecting...

The Parry Lecture

Brian P. Owensby
Director, Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation
Professor, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

Roquinaldo Ferreira (Brown University)

This talk (based on a pre-circulated paper) will examine the social and cultural foundations of the slave trade between the Bight of Benin and Brazil in the first half of the eighteenth century, focusing on imperial politics by the kingdom of Whydah and Dahomey towards Brazil, as well as the intense competition  pitting Portuguese against other European merchants.

A copy of the pre-circulated paper can be downloaded at:
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Speaker: Sophia Beal,
Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Minnesota

See the Brazil Conference website for schedule and venues.

In its first edition, the student-organized Harvard Brazil Conference aims to debate perspectives, issues, and challenges that Brazil shares with the world. The event wants to put together academics and doers to debate with students and the international community.

The conference is organized by the Harvard-Wide Brazilian Student Association, which was created in 2015. This vibrant community hopes to create a platform...