Harvard Gazette Article - 11/4/14

Prof. Lepore interviewed about The Secret History of...

Prof. Orhon Myadar
University of Arizona - School of Geography and Development

Julia Ott, Associate Professor Of History,
The New School For Social Research

Maeve Glass,
Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow,
Harvard Law School

Amalia Kessler, Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor Of International Legal Studies,
Stanford Law School

James Shaw, Senior Lecturer In History,
The University Of Sheffield

Co-sponsored by the Law and History Workshop of the Harvard Law School and the workshop in Early Modern History of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Alison Lacroix, Professor Of Law And Ludwig And Hilde Wolf Teaching Scholar,
University Of Chicago Law School

Lea Vandervelde, Josephine Witte Professor Of Law,
University Of Iowa College Of Law

Speaker: Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti, Cardoso Visiting Professor; Columbia University

a discussion with Roger Owen
AJ Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Department of History

Professor Owen will lead a discussion on the chaos in the MENA region with a focus on the process of events since the Arab Uprisings of 2011.

This event is open to the public, no registration is required.

Sponsors: Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History; Harvard Philosophy Department
Contacts: Richard Moran; Peter Gordon, pgordon@fas.harvard.edu

Abstract:  "How did the newly established Republic of Turkey legislate its minorities in its formative years? How did minorities (defined legally as non-Muslim citizens of the Republic) respond to the new regime? Looking at state-minority relationships in the context of interwar Europe’s League of Nations-initiated “minority protection regime” and taking a longue durée approach to the question by incorporating a discussion of the legacy of the Ottoman millet system as well as the 19th century Great Power “interventions” into what Ottomans viewed as their “...

Speaker(s): Michael Miller , Professor of History, University of Miami

Sponsor(s):  New Directions in European History

How does one write the history of a river? In recent decades the prevailing tone...