The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy Presents:

"The History Manifesto"

David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University

Jo Guldi, Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History, Brown University

Comment: Samuel Moyn...

For details, see the CES Website

Speaker: Professor Francisco Moreno-Fernández

(University of Alcalá, Spain, and Executive Director of the Observatorio at Harvard University).

 Introduction: Diana Sorensen

(Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Observatorio).

RSVP: info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu

 In recent years, a number of Indignant Citizens...

Free Admission with Harvard ID
Introduction by Mati Diop
Monday February 9 at 7pm

Touki bouki

Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. With Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall
Senegal 1973, 35mm, color, 89 min

The debut feature of Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, Touki bouki stands today as one of the classics of African cinema and of 1970s world cinema. Built out of a rich montage of sights and sounds, Touki bouki...

$12 Special Event Tickets - Free Admission with Harvard ID
Mati Diop in person
Saturday February 7 at 7pm
Q&A w/filmmaker

Atlantiques
Directed by Mati Diop. Senegal 2009, video, color, 15min.
Wolof and French with English subtitles

Atlantiques

Directed by Mati Diop. With Alpha Diop, Cheikh M’Baye, Ouli Seck, Serigne...

$12 Special Event Tickets - Free Admission with Harvard ID
Mati Diop in person
Friday February 6 at 7pm

Q&A w/filmmaker + reception

A Thousand Suns (Mille soleils)

Directed by Mati Diop. With Magaye Niang, Wasis Diop, Ben D. Beye
France/Senegal 2013, DCP, color, 45 min. French and Wolof with English subtitles

A Thousand Suns is a portrait of Magaye Niang, the non-professional actor...

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Please join us next Friday, Feb. 6th for the CAPS Seminar with Christopher Parker. For a full schedule of CAPS events please visit the CAPS website, caps.gov.harvard.edu. 

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See more on the RLL website.

Professors Eleni Varikas and Michael Lowy, visiting Boston from Paris this spring, will lead a discussion at Harvard entitled:

"Messengers of Hatred: The (Ir)resistible Rise of the Far Right in France and Europe. "

Reception before the seminar: 5-5:30.

Professor Eleni Varikas is...

Michael Ralph (NYU).
Excerpt of “The Domestic Industry Database,” (work in progress).
Presented by the Workshop on Multimedia History and Literature: New Directions in Scholarly Design.  
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Sophus A. Reinert (Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School)
Title to be announced.
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center. 

Peter L’Official (Harvard University). 
Excerpt of “Urban Legends: Representing the South Bronx in Ruin and Reality,” (work in progress).
Presented by the Workshop on Multimedia History and Literature: New Directions in Scholarly Design.  


Download the readings from the Charles Warren Center website.

Vivek Bald (MIT).
Excerpt of “The Bengali Harlem / Lost Histories Project,” (work in progress). 
Presented by the Workshop on Multimedia History and Literature: New...