Brian P. Owensby
Corcoran Department of History

Sean Wilentz: Nathan I. Huggins Lectures (in 3 parts)

Public Conversation

 In Conversation: Steven Nelson and Abigail DeVille

 Steven Nelson, Associate Professor of African and African American Art History, University of California, Los Angeles; Cohen Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins...

“Digital Archives and Public History: Documenting and Exhibiting South Asian American Stories;  a talk with Samip Mallick, the founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive (https://www.saadigitalarchive.org/), and Pawan Dhingra, the founding curator of the Smithsonian Exhibition "Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation" (http://smithsonianapa.org/beyondbollywood/). Moderated by Vivek Bald  (CWC Fellows; MIT...

RLL Advising Open House:  Please join us in the 4^th floor lounge for refreshments and conversation with students interested in concentrating in Romance Languages and Literatures

“Contested Landscape: Damascus in Medieval Arabic Descriptions”

Co-sponsors:  Cartography Seminar and the Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/contested-landscape-damascus-medieval-arabic-descriptions

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CLIMATE WEEK

April 6 - 10

Join us for a week-long series of events to explore the many dimensions of climate change across all of Harvard's Schools.

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Spring 2015 Cuban Cinema Series at the Cooper Gallery

 De Cierta Manera / One Way or Another (1974)

 78 min. Spanish, no subtitles. Directed by Sara Gómez.

“This Cuban romantic drama film mixes documentary-style footage with a fictional story that looks at the poor neighborhoods of Havana shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It illustrates the history before the development process in Cuba and demonstrates how tearing down slums and building modern settlements does not immediately change the...

The Francis Biddle Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Robert W. Gordon
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School