The Dissertation Workshop is a graduate educational seminar open only to graduate students and their advisors. CES invites graduates students who are interested in attending this workshop or in presenting their research, to contact CES Dissertation Workshop coordinators Clare Bradford Anderson and Armando Miano. All workshops will be held virtually during the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom...

Speaker: Shmuel Feiner, Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University; Chair, The Historical Society of Israel

Chair: Derek J. Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

The 18th century was the first modern century in Jewish history. The deep changes that took place over its course shaped the...

You are all warmly invited to the last Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies seminar of the semester.

December 8th at 11am (Eastern), Andrea Frisch (Dept of French & Italian, University of Maryland), will be presenting, "Between Fait-divers and Grand récit: The French Wars of Religion and the Genres of Historiography in the Sixteenth Century." We hope to see you there! Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson@g.harvard.edu) or...

The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs

" The Politics of Beauty: Modernization Theory, Comparativism, and the Empress of Iran"

Perin Gürel, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Catherine Boyle, Harvard University

This session will take place on Zoom.

Please register in...

Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.

Speaker: Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

To register for the event, click here.

Event contact: Nate Herter (nherter@g.harvard.edu)

Speaker: Curtis Evans (The University of Chicago Divinity School)

Regeister for a Zoom link here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrc-iqpjoiEtUjXcyhTucrShrbspEOd8z_
To access the speakers paper, please email cwc@fas.harvard.edu
 

Hosted by the Harvard Environmental History Working Group

Speaker: Christopher Parsons (Northeastern University)

For Zoom access information, please email Joyce Chaplin: chaplin [at] fas.harvard.edu

Hosted by the Harvard Environmental History Working Group

Speaker: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University)

For Zoom access information, please email Joyce Chaplin: chaplin [at] fas.harvard.edu

Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

Speaker: Alvita Akiboh (University of Michigan)

Comments: Kristin Oberiano, Harvard University

Please contact joshua_mejia@fas.harvard.edu for Zoom information.

Speaker:  David Nirenberg, University of Chicago

Zoom meeting link: ...

The Harvard Art Museums collections play an important role in the popular undergraduate course Texts in Transition, co-taught by history professor Ann Blair and English professor Leah Whittington, as part of the Harvard College Program in General Education.

In this conversation, professors Blair and Whittington will discuss this ongoing collaboration with Laura Muir and Jen Thum of the Harvard Art Museums. Together, they will explore the role that close examination—in person and virtual—of a diverse array of objects plays in helping students consider how texts have traveled...

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Henry Munson
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and Cooperating Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University of Maine; author, Islam and Revolution in the Middle East

Rescheduled from April 2020.

Register: https://bit.ly/3jZPvKM.

Henry L. Munson, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and Cooperating Professor,...

Register in advance for this webinar:  
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-Y3JTXR3RtSfBx8olPduFw 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.    

New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winner Emily Nussbaum...

Beginning in September 1941 and throughout the war, Central Asia and Iran became places of refuge to hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Catholic Polish citizens.

Mikhal Dekel, whose father was a child refugee in Tehran, will recount the research and writing process of this epic, yet relatively unknown Holocaust story, told in her new book Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey.

She will discuss the circumstances that brought her father and hundreds of thousands of others from Poland to the Soviet interior, Central Asia, Iran, India and Palestine,...

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India

Ravinder Kaur, Visiting Scholar (Remote), 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies; University of Copenhagen

Preregistration is required.

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