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2015 Mar 10

CMES: "The Spread of Sufism and the Creation of a New Landscape of Sacred Sites in Medieval Syria"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

Daphna Ephrat

Associate Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern History, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel

 Daphna Ephrat is associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History at the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies  at the Open University of Israel. Dr. Ephrat received her PhD at CMES in 1993. She is the author of A Learned Society in a Period of Transition (SUNY Press, 2000) and Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008...

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2015 Mar 09

Peabody Museum: "Crossing Indigenous Boundaries" | Attwood, Bradley, Deloria

4:30pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street

Harvard visiting faculty Bain Attwood (Monash University, Australia), Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria, Canada), and Philip Deloria (University of Michigan, United States) will provide perspectives on global issues in the study of Indigeneity, a vibrant and growing discipline that is used to study Indigenous communities around the globe.  Each scholar will share perspectives on a seminal text used in their work and provide insight into how it engages with Indigenous Studies, both locally and...

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2015 Feb 24

Boston University: "The World Historical & China's 20th Century" | Rebecca Karl

6:00pm

Location: 

B.U.’s Photonics Center (8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215)

Please join us at Boston University Tuesday February 24, for the rescheduled lecture in our continuing John E. Sawyer series, "Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century."

 REBECCA KARL (N.Y.U.) will deliver the lecture:
"The World Historical and China's 20th Century: Perspectives on Globalization and Globality"

 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 at 6:00pm
Location: Room #206 (2nd Floor)* at B.U.’s Photonics Center (8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215)

*Please note the location change....

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2015 Mar 06

Hutchins Center: "Dying While Black & Brown" | A Dance Performance & Discussion

6:00pm

Location: 

Wasserstein - 2019 Milstein West, Harvard Law School, 1585 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA.

Dance Performance and Discussion

 Dying While Black & Brown

 A dance performance first commissioned by the San Francisco Equal Justice Society, Dying While Black & Brown focuses on capital punishment and the disproportionate numbers of incarcerated people of color. The piece...

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2015 Mar 03

Hutchins Center: "A view from the Other Side: The Saint Domingue Revolution through Spanish Sources" - Day 1

4:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Jane Landers
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

 A View from the Other Side: The Saint Domingue Revolution through Spanish Sources

 A lecture in 3 parts.

 

Tuesday, March 3: The Entwined Histories...

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2015 Feb 25

Hutchins Center: "Hurricanes, Populism, and Memory: Race, Class, and Disaster in the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean" | Stuart Schwartz

12:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street

Stuart Schwartz

George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Yale University

 Hurricanes, Populism, and Memory: Race, Class, and Disaster in the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean

Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

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