Warren Center Presents: a Pre-Election Conversation with Latosha Brown (Black Voters Matter) Moderated by Jordan Camp (Warren Center Affiliate)

Cosponsored with the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School

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In solidarity with the peaceful protests against Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus, a small group of graduate students of the Slavic Department at Harvard will be performing a reading of “Insulted. Belarus(sia),” a new topical play by Andrei Kureichik. 

The event will be live streamed via youtube on Wednesday, October 7, 5-7pm. 

A discussion with the author and translator will follow. 

No previous knowledge of the Belarusian protests or history is necessary. The play—performed in English—speaks for itself. 
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Ahmed al-Rahim, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia

Co-sponsor: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

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Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair in the History of Art, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

Abstract: Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the late Ottoman period. While manuscript paintings and compositions mounted on wooden boards have been the subject of scholarly inquiry, an relatively unknown type of hilye production involves the insertion of verbal icons into glass bottles. Today, three such “hilye ...

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Garrett Davidson, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim World Studies, College of Charleston

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations(NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Harvard University 

present the workshop 

The Ascendant Field
Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

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Women’s Studies in Religion Program
Harvard Divinity School

Presents:

Jarena Lee as Protestant Icon: A Conversation with Nyasha Junior and Catherine Brekus

Nyasha Junior is a Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and African-American Religions
Catherine Brekus is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 3:00 PM

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In just over three weeks, millions will head to the polls and elect the president of the United States via an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to win, and narrows campaigning to just a handful of swing states. In this discussion, Prof. Alex Keyssar will be joined by Prof. Edward Foley and Tova Wang to discuss his new book, why the founders settled on such an institution, it’s persistence over the hundreds of years since, and current efforts to preserve, circumvent, or abolish it.

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Saul Noam Zaritt, Associate Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University

In conversation with Sunny Yudkoff, Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Adriana X. Jacobs, Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature, University of Oxford

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Katrin Kogman-Appel: A Jewish Look at World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, 1375)

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Jewish Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Institut für Jüdische Studien

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 

When: Oct 26, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

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(IM)POSSIBILITY

Harvard Film & Visual Studies Graduate Conference

October 8–10, 2020

https://www.vesgrad.com/

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Talk title: “The Third World before Afro-Asia”

Speaker:  Cindy Ewing (University of Missouri)

To register: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpceyspjktG9HnyVt2beFoEy7EYe5hXzy2

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AAAS Professor Brandon Terry will be the featured speaker on Thursday, October 1, 2020, from 1:30-2:30pm (Eastern) as part of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy's signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now.

The series features Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South.   The Fierce Urgency...

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On Friday, October 2, 2020, from 12:00-2:00 (Eastern), AAAS Professor Alejandro de la Fuente will moderate a talk by Professor Devyn Spence Benson from Davidson College entitled ...

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The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not “give” women the vote. Rather, it established a negative: that the right to vote could not be abridged on account of sex alone. When the amendment passed, many women were already voting in states that allowed them to do so. Moreover, even after its passage, African Americans in the South remained disfranchised by race; some immigrant women were blocked from voting by national status; and many women in US territories overseas remained disfranchised by the ways the American empire bounded citizenship.

This “big ideas” session...

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