A Talk by Joseph Boone (USC)

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over 400 years. This story, when put into contrapuntal interplay with...

The History of Energy and the Environment

 The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University.

 A presentation of research by conference participants and Harvard University scholars will run concurrently in the CGIS South Concourse. The projects will be on display all day Thursday,...

Co-sponsored with the Center for African Studies and the Department of African and African American Studies

Free and open to the public.

See the CON-IH 16 Website for updates.

CON-IH 16

International and Economic History: The Global Dimension

Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016; Friday, March 11, 2016

Location: Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 

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Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) has developed into an annual event, organized by graduate students in ...

Jim Downs, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College.

Commentator: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Westenley Alcenat, PhD candidate at Columbia.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to...

Vanessa Ogle, Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.

Commentator: Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory and Director of the Urban Theory Lab at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Rephael Stern, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID...

João Paolo Garrido Pimenta, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Ruodi Duan, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard....

Commentator: Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: Tim Barker, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.

“Long term shifts in labor relations in the United States (1850-2010) using digitized census data”

Rombert Stapel, Global Fellow; Leiden University, the Netherlands.

RSVPs to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu are appreciated.

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...