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2014 Dec 17

CES: A Day in the LIfe of Post-Communist Europe

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Nowhere - not even in Italy, with its storied mafioso past and present - are the roles of mafioso boss and his mob cronies being as faithfully reenacted as in today’s Eastern Europe. Ex-leaders and other holdovers from the Communist regime are running states from their armchairs, shuffling about the pieces in a veritable game of high-stakes chess as they see fit. And business is good: Many former Communist countries have yet to let go of their Communist past; true, they’ll happily call the current system capitalism, and yes, former Party leaders have...
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2014 Dec 03

CES: Coexistence with the Enemy? French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime | Daniel Lee

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Despite Vichy's implication in the Holocaust, this talk explores the potential for coexistence between Jews of French citizenship and the Vichy regime. A focus on the specific category of French Jewish youth in the period before the Germans invaded the non-Occupied Zone in November 1942 reveals important exceptions to the regime's antisemitic agenda. While Jews were marginalized from the civil service and liberal professions, the New Order did not seek to exclude young French Jews from taking part in a series of youth projects that aimed to rebuild...
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2014 Dec 09

Tef Poe, St. Louis rapper, in conversation on his art, activism, and Ferguson

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor Rear

The Tef Poe event, planned for last Monday but then cancelled, has been rescheduled for this coming Tuesday.  Please mark your calendars for this event of present-day relevance. 

Presented by the Warren Center, in collaboration with the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute

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2014 Nov 21

Weatherhead Center: "The Case for the Establishment of Truth Commissions in Europe"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

GIS Knafel Building, Room K354, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker:

Thomas Weber, Professor of History and International Affairs and Director, Centre for Global Security and Governance, University of Aberdeen; Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

 This talk makes the case for the establishment of Truth Commissions in Europe to deal with the darkest chapters of the continent’s living past.  In the case of Holocaust-era crimes, Weber argues that Truth Commissions would serve the cause of Holocaust education and the historical record far better than court...

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2014 Nov 20

CES/Harvard Ukrainian Res. Inst.: A Future for Ukraine: Lessons From Poland

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Sever Hall 113, Harvard Yard

Livestream available at 4:15 pm.

A Public Address by H.E. Radoslaw Sikorski, Speaker of Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland

A Future for Ukraine: Lessons From Poland

In his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, H.E. Radoslaw...

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2014 Dec 02

SoHP: “What’s New in Genomic Archaeology? The Peopling of Europe from ancient and modern DNA”

5:30pm

Location: 

Yenching Auditorium, Yenching Library 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, M.A.

 The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard invites you to this exciting talk and discussion:

 “What’s New in Genomic Archaeology? The Peopling of Europe from ancient and modern DNA”

 By Nick Patterson,  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and David Reich, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

 Hosted by Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History Chair, Steering Committee for the Science of the Human Past

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2014 Nov 20

Mahindra Humanities: A History of Death

6:20pm

Location: 

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

DEATH & DYING LECTURE SERIES

For 2014 - 2015, Science, Religion and Culture program and the Mahindra Humanities seminar on Science and Religion are exploring the theme of "Death and Dying" through a series of lectures, panels, exhibition, and other events.


A HISTORY of DEATH

Nov 20, 6:20PM, Thompson Room, Barker Center


Death and the dead body have always...

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