Literary Uses of Correspondence: Discovering Early Epistolary Fiction in China
Antje Richter, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Critical Issues Confronting China Series:

Professor Roderick MacFarquhar
Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University

Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change

"Heroes, Villains, and Nerds: How Science is Portrayed in the Media, and How Portrayals Have Changed" with James Shanahan, Associate Dean, College of Communication, Boston University
Contact Name: Jennifer L. Berglund berglund@bu.edu

Wednesday, October 1, 6:30 p.m.: Book Event
(La Maison française of New York University, 16 Washington Mews)

Discussion of FREDERICK COOPER's Citizenship between Empire and Nation.Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (PrincetonU.P., 2014)
 
 
Between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a citizen and different too. Citizenship between Empire and Nation examines momentous...

All are welcome, please RSVP: Ms. Khalilah Tyre, administrator of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)   |   email: Khalilah.Tyre@tufts.edu

Directions to Tufts, parking, campus map can be found here:
http://www.tufts.edu/home/visiting_directions/
 
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Department of History, the Center for the Study of Race &...

Speaker(s): Uwe Schwabe, Civil Rights Activist; Siegbert Schefke, Civil Rights Activist; Mary Elise Sarotte, Visiting Professor of Government and History, Harvard University

East German civil rights activists Siegbert Schefke and Uwe Schwabe will give first-hand accounts of...

Speaker(s): Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

The Salvemini Colloquium is named in honor of the Italian anti-fascist historian who spent much of his career as a professor in the Harvard Department of History. Since 2012, the Colloquium is an annual event at the Center, open to the Harvard academic community and to the public. It is organized with the generous support of the Consulate General of Italy in Boston. The lecture will be followed by a...

Rachel Cohen
Author of...

This talk has been canceled.

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Prof. Christopher Beckwith, Indiana University - Department of Central Eurasian Studies
“Scythian philosophy, the Persian Empire, and the question of the Axial Age in Central Eurasia”

"The Wakhis at musical crossroads of Tajikistan and Pakistan"
Richard Wolf, Professor, Harvard University
Department of Music
Department of South Asian Studies