Nov 9, 5 pm: Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller (Lead Researcher, House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin) on Kristallnacht and the Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity in Germany. This public keynote lecture opens an international conference on the dispossession of German Jewry (Nov 9-11).

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...

Nov 6, 7 pm: Opening reception for Final Sale. The End of Jewish Businesses in Nazi Berlin, an exhibition that explores the fate of small businesses owned by Jews, the entrepreneurs who built them, and their struggle to survive in an increasingly racist business environment.

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...

 A meeting with students. Silvio Torres-Saillant is Distinguished Professor of English and Latin American Studies, Syracuse University. 

Professor Torres-Saillant's research and teaching interests revolve around central concerns pertaining to the enduring legacy of the colonial transaction...

 Maria Carreira is professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach and co-director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA.

Roughly one out of every five children (22%) in American schools speaks a language other than English at home. This number is significantly higher in some...

Carmen Silva-Corvalán

Two major patterns of language acquisition have been identified in studies of early bilingualism: simultaneous bilingualism and sequential bilingualism, but no agreement exists with respect to...

Margaret Humphreys, PhD.
Professor of Medicine and History,
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and
History of Medicine, Duke University, and current
President of the American Association for the History of Medicine

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Hispanic Cultures Seminar:

Angel Esteban, University of Delaware
“El escritor en su paraíso: Borges bibliómano”

Mahindra Humanities Center
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/el-escritor-en-su-para%C3%ADso-borges-bibli%C3%B3mano#

François Proulx, University of Illinois
"Blank Traces: Proust and Hubert Robert"

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/fran%C3%A7ois-proulx-university-illinois-blank-traces

Hispanic Cultures Seminar:

Liliana Gómez Popescu, Martin Luther Universität, Iberoamerican Literature
"Archive matters. The Caribbean in narratives of space."

Hispanic Cultures Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/archive-matters-caribbean-narratives-space

Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University - ARTS@DRCLAS Graduate Student Speaker Series:
“The Cradle of Racial Humanity:  The Caribbean and the Modern World”

http://rll.fas....

K. David Jackson, Yale University , “Waiting for the Ancient Mariner: A Theater of Immanence” - -

Sponsored by the Portuguese Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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Conference by Mayra Rivera Rivera, Associate Professor at Harvard Divinity School, with the topic "Society is a Labyrinth of Incarnations: Identity, Bodies, and Religion."

Organized by Ethnicity Migration Rights  and the Cervantes Observatory at Harvard - FAS.

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Come and meet RLL Faculty and current concentrators and our team of advisors

Check out your options in RLL – concentration in one of our SIX concentration tracks and EXPLORE ways of combining Romance Languages with other fields

And summer study abroad Light refreshments will be served

http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/rll-fall-open-house-students-prospective-concentrators-concentrators-faculty

The Program in Film, Television and Interactive Media invites you to a special screening of "The Decent One." This film on Heinrich Himmler won...

Hrant Dink Memorial Peace and Justice Lecture

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