Harvard Program for the Study of Capitalism is excited to announce its second graduate student workshop, this year with both Stanford and Georgia. At Harvard, Workshop participants will be gathering in CGIS South Room 453 at 3 PM this Friday.

Participants will be expected to have read the pre-circulated papers...

Étienne Balibar
Distinguished...

Étienne Balibar
Distinguished...

Speaker: Marcel van der Linden, Research Director, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Lunch will be available. RSVPs to...

Joint Center for History and Economics Seminar

See also: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/seminars_hec.htm

“Histories of Health in Southeast Asia”

Chairs:
Lincoln Chen, China Medical Board
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Reception and opening of new gallery exhibit "Landscapes of History" by Vivien Schmidt

CES will host an opening reception for a new art exhibit at the Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery. "Landscapes of History" features the Italian land- and cityscape photography of Vivien A. Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University, and CES local affiliate faculty.  Schmidt's photographs evoke the deep connection of Italian...

Mo Moulton, Associate Director of Studies in History and Literature and Lecturer in the History Department, will be reading from her book, Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, at the Harvard Coop.  There’s sure to be a lively discussion, so please come if you can.  For more information,...

Marc Crépon (Chair of Philosophy, ENS, Paris)

“L’amour de la patrie, une notion controversée”

Friday, October 24

2-4pm   133 Barker Center

What was George Thinking?

Cambridge, MA – Join us in the historic Longfellow carriage house at 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays, November 6, 13, and 20 for “Letters from Washington.” These discussions will be based upon readings of letters and excerpts of letters written by George Washington during both his military and political careers and will focus primarily on a single topic each week. Copies of the selected readings will be provided at the events. Just bring yourself and be prepared to delve into the meanings of Washington’s words! The scheduled topics...

Strange Fruit: Bananas, Slavery, Military Coups, Sex and Race

Françoise VERGES; Goldsmiths College, University of London; President of the Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’esclavage

Philippe Vasset; Novelist and Editor-in-chief, Africa...

“Performance” and “Performative”

Barbara CASSIN; Former Director of the Collège International de Philosophie

From the Fairbank Center Calendar:

Tasting Chocolate at the Kangxi Court:
Medicine, Politics, and Global Trade Flows in the 17th Century
Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz

Cosponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Organized by James Robson, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,...

Harvard Book Store welcomes Visiting Professor of Government and History at Harvard University MARY ELISE SAROTTE for a discussion of her new book, The Collapse:...