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2014 Dec 10

CES: Sexism and the Specter of the Arab/Muslim Man. The Case of the Law Against Sexism in Belgium

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
This paper is part of a larger project that investigates the ways in which questions of gender, sexual difference, and sexuality in Western Europe are impacted and (re)shaped by Europe’s “Muslim question”. In the presentation I explore this question through a particular case-study: the video Femme de la rue (2012), which documents catcalling in a migrant neighborhood in Brussels, and the ensuing public debate on sexual harassment in Belgium. This debate was haunted by the figure of the Arab/Muslim man and resulted in a new law criminalizing...
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2014 Dec 03

Weatherhead Center: "The Politickle Pickle: An Exhibition of Editorial Cartoons and Caricatures on India and the United States" December 7, 2014-January 29, 2015

11:40am

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level

Special Event: The Politickle Pickle

"The Politickle Pickle: An Exhibition of Editorial Cartoons and Caricatures on India and the United States"

December 7, 2014-January 29, 2015

Shreyas Navare, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Editorial Cartoonist, Hindustan Times; Author, The Politickle Pickle: Vol. 1 & 2.

Co-sponsorsed...

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2014 Dec 04

CMES: "World War One - From Empire to Republic" | Feroz Ahmad

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

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

Feroz Ahmad
Chair of the Department of International Relations and Political Science, Yeditepe University, Istanbul

2014 Dec 09

South Asia Institute: Pre-Departure Orientation for Students traveling to SA over Winter 2015

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, Room S030, 1730 Cambridge Street

This is an orientation for students who are traveling to South Asia during Winter Session 2015, and will include travel tips and logistics, health and safety information, cultural introduction, and will provide an opportunity to meet other students who will be in the region. Food will be served! - See the South Asia Institute website for more details

All Harvard Students traveling to...

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2014 Dec 03

Fairbanks Center: Film Screening of "Valley of Heroes"

6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

Valley of the Heroes

Produced and directed by Khashem Gyal
(In Tibetan and Chinese; English subtitles)
Q&A with Khashem Gyal following the screening

Cosponsored with the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Valley of the Heroes offers a rare glimpse at a pivotal moment of cultural and linguistic transition among Tibetans and Muslims in...

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2014 Dec 05

Weatherhead Center: Economic History Workshop: "The Effects of Government Old Age Support on Private Behavior: Evidence from the Early Stages of the U.S. Social Security Program"

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Littauer M-16, North Yard

"The Effects of Government Old Age Support on Private Behavior: Evidence from the Early Stages of the U.S. Social Security Program"

Speakers:

Dan Fetter, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College.

Lee Lockwood, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
...

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2014 Dec 02

Weatherhead Center: Political Violence Workshop "The Price of Secession: Separatist Movements and Organized Crime in Georgia and Serbia, 1990-2012" | Danilo Mandic

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, Room 401

Political Violence Workshop

"The Price of Secession: Separatist Movements and Organized Crime in Georgia and Serbia, 1990-2012"

Speaker:

Danilo Mandic, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Kai Thaler
thaler@fas.harvard.edu

Chair:

Robert Bates,...

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2014 Dec 17

CES: A Day in the LIfe of Post-Communist Europe

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Nowhere - not even in Italy, with its storied mafioso past and present - are the roles of mafioso boss and his mob cronies being as faithfully reenacted as in today’s Eastern Europe. Ex-leaders and other holdovers from the Communist regime are running states from their armchairs, shuffling about the pieces in a veritable game of high-stakes chess as they see fit. And business is good: Many former Communist countries have yet to let go of their Communist past; true, they’ll happily call the current system capitalism, and yes, former Party leaders have...
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2014 Dec 03

CES: Coexistence with the Enemy? French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime | Daniel Lee

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Despite Vichy's implication in the Holocaust, this talk explores the potential for coexistence between Jews of French citizenship and the Vichy regime. A focus on the specific category of French Jewish youth in the period before the Germans invaded the non-Occupied Zone in November 1942 reveals important exceptions to the regime's antisemitic agenda. While Jews were marginalized from the civil service and liberal professions, the New Order did not seek to exclude young French Jews from taking part in a series of youth projects that aimed to rebuild...
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2014 Dec 09

Tef Poe, St. Louis rapper, in conversation on his art, activism, and Ferguson

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor Rear

The Tef Poe event, planned for last Monday but then cancelled, has been rescheduled for this coming Tuesday.  Please mark your calendars for this event of present-day relevance. 

Presented by the Warren Center, in collaboration with the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute

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