Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics":

Public Lecture Series 2014-15
"Apolitical Animals: From Machiavelli to Morris Fiorina"
Russell Muirhead
Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College

A powerful, almost irresistible strain of modern political theory invites us to see 'the people' as defined by a common-sense interest in security, prosperity, and fairness. In this image, popular common-sense might rule, were it not for the corrupting effects of political animals - partisans, defined by their irrational...

Presented by: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and MIT Center for Civic Media

Over the last five years, hundreds of researchers, journalists, activists, and scholars from a variety of fields have come together at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, under the direction of Lawrence Lessig, to investigate, map, and find solutions for institutional corruption around the world. After five years of research and reporting, we need your help in translating this work from the academic...

Kerry Chance

Independent Scholar in Anthropology

Fellow’s Bio

 "Where There is Fire, There is Politics": Material Life and Ungovernability in Urban South Africa

 Free and open to the public. 

A Harvard University Encounter with Princess Nokia’s Afro-futurism and Urban Feminism 

Nuyorican urban feminist Hiphop artist, Princess Nokia, comes to Harvard with her female punk energy, spiritual mysticism, and enigmatic musicality. This independent musician hosts her own weekly radio show, “The Smart Girl Club,” and will discuss her artistic activism and her animé­‐inspired hacker girl character, Princess Nokia. We will screen the director’s cut of her recently released music video, “Young Girls,” from her debut album Metallic Butterfly (...

How did the revolutionary age affect commercial circulations in a trans-imperial region such as the Caribbean? By examining the trade between the United States and the French Antilles – particularly Saint-Domingue – this paper shows that transnational networks of trade adapted to the ever-changing legal framework of that commerce. Yet these practices increasingly conflicted with the ambitions of the revolutionary states to control migrants’ mobility. If merchants negotiated their many legal identities with French, British, and American authorities, they incidentally increased international...

DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar

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Allan Lumba 

Postdoctoral Fellow in Global American Studies

Charles...

Daphna Ephrat

Associate Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern History, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel

 Daphna Ephrat is associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History at the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies  at the Open University of Israel. Dr. Ephrat received her PhD at CMES in 1993. She is the author of A Learned Society in a Period of Transition (SUNY Press, 2000) and Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008...

Harvard visiting faculty Bain Attwood (Monash University, Australia), Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria, Canada), and Philip Deloria (University of Michigan, United States) will provide perspectives on global issues in the study of Indigeneity, a vibrant and growing discipline that is used to study Indigenous communities around the globe.  Each scholar will share perspectives on a seminal text used in their work and provide insight into how it engages with Indigenous Studies, both locally and...

Dr. Imre Galambos
University of Cambridge
Department of East Asian Studies

Please join us at Boston University Tuesday February 24, for the rescheduled lecture in our continuing John E. Sawyer series, "Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century."

 REBECCA KARL (N.Y.U.) will deliver the lecture:
"The World Historical and China's 20th Century: Perspectives on Globalization and Globality"

 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 at 6:00pm
Location: Room #206 (2nd Floor)* at B.U.’s Photonics Center (8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215)

*Please note the location change....

Dance Performance and Discussion

 Dying While Black & Brown

 A dance performance first commissioned by the San Francisco Equal Justice Society, Dying While Black & Brown focuses on capital punishment and the disproportionate numbers of incarcerated people of color. The piece...

W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium

 Caroline Elkins
Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies; Chair, Committee on African Studies, Harvard University

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