“Gilman and the Archive”

The Sixth International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference will take place in June 2015 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is a cosponsor of the conference. The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe holds a rich collection of Gilman’s papers, including letters, drawings, and the entire run of her periodical, The Forerunner. A selection of Gilman-related materials...

Speaker:
Se Young Jang, Research Fellow,
International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6664/

Coffee and Tea Provided
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China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, began to propagate the “China Dream” in 2013.  At this time, Dr. Crook was living in China, cooperating with the China Charity Federation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to implement charity projects.  He began to observe many wall posters appearing in public spaces from July 2013 onward.  He photographed 272 of these posters which he placed in his collection of 45,000 reports on rural China (1958-2015) and 40,000 plus photographs (1982-2014) now housed in the Brigham Young University Library.  Upon his return to the USA, he began a...

Professor Chen Lin, Associate Professor of Chinese literature, Nankai University Read more...

Dr. Yan Zheng, Associate Research...

This event is open to the public; no registration required.

CMES Master's Thesis Presentations

Chairs:
Ian J. Miller, Professor, Harvard University
Paul Warde, Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Speakers:

Lisa M. Brady, Professor, Boise State University and editor, Environmental History

Rania Ghosn, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Edward Melillo, Associate Professor, Amherst College

Sara B. Pritchard, Associate Professor,...

https://www.gsas.harvard.edu/harvard_horizons

Each year, outstanding PhD candidates are chosen as Harvard Horizons Scholars and receive targeted mentoring and coaching designed to enhance their presentation skills. The program will culminate in the Harvard Horizons Symposium on May 6, 2015, where Horizons Scholars will deliver brief, compelling talks about their research from...

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 INSTITUTO CERVANTES AT HARVARD

 The Annual Raimundo Lida Memorial Lecture

Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge

“The Unbearable Lightness of Bones:

Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz”

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