The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard invites you to this exciting talk and discussion:

 “What’s New in Genomic Archaeology? The Peopling of Europe from ancient and modern DNA”

 By Nick Patterson,  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and David Reich, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

 Hosted by Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History Chair, Steering Committee for the Science of the Human Past

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DEATH & DYING LECTURE SERIES

For 2014 - 2015, Science, Religion and Culture program and the Mahindra Humanities seminar on Science and Religion are exploring the theme of "Death and Dying" through a series of lectures, panels, exhibition, and other events.

A HISTORY of DEATH

Nov 20, 6:20PM, Thompson Room, Barker Center

Death and the dead body have always...

Speakers
Jo Guldi
Brown University

David Armitage
Harvard University

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The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series is pleased to present

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Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center
Seminar, "Female Literacy Revisited: Women Reading in London, 1570-1640",

Talk, “A Criollo Cicero: Reassessing the Bibliotheca Mexicana Controversy”
Stuart M. McManus, Harvard University

ENERGY HISTORY WORKSHOP

1:00-3:00 p.m. – Panel Presentation

John R. McNeill, Georgetown University
ECOLOGICAL TELECONNECTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Christopher F. Jones, Arizona State University
THE FORGOTTEN KING: COAL, ENERGY, AND HISTORY

Paul Warde, University of East Anglia
COMMENTS AND RESPONSE

Ian J. Miller...

 Emily A. Harrison: Ph.D. candidate, History of Science Department, Harvard University
"Infant Science: Global Intervention and Production of Knowledge around Infant Mortality, 1942-1965"

 The last in a series of four lectures given as the 2014 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine. The Colloquium offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical...

The Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their fields to discuss informally historical studies in progress.  Below you will find an announcement of this year's rich Colloquium.  Please join us.

Making the Suicidal Object:  Sympathy and Surveillance in the American Asylum 

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Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series 2014

The Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Penn Law School, the Department of History at Penn, the Perry World House, and the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. The 2014 series runs from November 18 to 20 in the Golkin Room in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, located at 3417 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

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Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series 2014

The Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Penn Law School, the Department of History at Penn, the Perry World House, and the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. The 2014 series runs from November 18 to 20 in the Golkin Room in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, located at 3417 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

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Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series 2014

The Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Penn Law School, the Department of History at Penn, the Perry World House, and the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. The 2014 series runs from November 18 to 20 in the Golkin Room in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, located at 3417 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

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The 2014 science symposium will focus on navigation and way-finding. By bringing together experts in human cognitive neuroscience and neural computation, animal life science,...

Nov 20, 7 pm: BU Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino will speak on the effects of gentrification on retail stores in Chicago and Provincetown in a lecture titled The Last Store Standing: Commerce as Force, Symbol and Casualty in the Gentrifying American City.

About the series:
All of these events will take place at the Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University.

 We hope that you will join our conversation as we make use of the German past and the American present to reflect together on the insidious legacies of racism in commerce...