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2014 Oct 24

CES Dissertation Workshop: "The Gothic State: August Reichensperger and the Aesthetics of Particularism"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Center for European Studies, Goldman Room, Busch Hall
Carla Heelan Graduate Student in History, Harvard University
Sponsors: CES Dissertation Workshop
Contacts: Simon Barnaby Crowcroft, s.barnaby.crowcroft@gmail.com; Charles Calvey, ...
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2014 Sep 24

Wellesley College: WWI Centennial Lecture: "Wurope Since 1914: INtegration and Disintegration"

12:30pm

Location: 

Pendleton Atrium, Wellesley College, 21 College Rd., Wellesley, MA, 02481

Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University) is author of the international bestseller Bloodlands:Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, and will be giving a WWI Centennial Lecture as part of the Wellesley Wednesdays series. "Europe Since 1914: Integration and Disintegration" 

Lunch will be served.

Sponsored by: Wellesley College's History Department

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2014 Oct 03

Conversations in the Observatorio: Spanish Language in Four Borders

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Observatorio, 2 Arrow St. 4th Fl. Cambridge, MA 02138

This seminar reflects on the situation of the Spanish language in four regions of linguistic-cultural borders in Asia, Africa, America and Europe. The areas to which special attention will be paid are: Philippines, where Spanish has historical presence since the sixteenth century; Africa, in secular contact with the Iberian Peninsula, especially in the Maghreb; America, where the situation of the border between Mexico and the United States overlaps with the internal border between the American Hispanic population, the country's largest minority, and the Anglo-Saxon population; and Europe,...

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2014 Sep 25

Instituto Cervantes at Harvard - Open House

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Observatorio, 2 Arrow St. 4th Fl. Cambridge, MA 02138

Welcome!

The «Observatorio» is hosting an Open House at Harvard to share its projects mapping the Spanish language and Latino Culture in the United States. The Open House will launch the publication Informes del Observatorio / Observatorio Reports, including statements by authors and special music by members of «Berklee College». Tapas and drinks will be served.

RSVP. info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu

 ¡Bienvenidos!

El «Observatorio...

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2014 Dec 01

Warren Center: “Snowball Inequality: Meritocracy and the Crisis of Capitalism.”

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA

Daniel Markovitz (Yale University).  “Snowball Inequality:  Meritocracy and the Crisis of Capitalism.”  

Faculty Comment: Stephen Shay (Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School)

Student Comment: Robert Niles (Harvard Law School)

Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center.  Robinson Hall, Lower Library.

2014 Nov 17

Warren Center: “From Small Farms to Progressive Plantations: Counterinsurgency, land policy, and inequality in the American Colonial Philippines, 1900-1916.”

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA

Theresa Ventura (History, Concordia University) will present her paper, "From Small Farms to Progressive Plantations: Counterinsurgency, Land Policy, and Inequality in the American Colonial Philippines, 1900-1916," to the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism Seminar on November 17th.

Faculty Comment:...

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2014 Sep 29

Warren Center: "Exceptional. The Astors, the New York Elite, and a Story of American Inequality"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA

Shamus Khan (Columbia University)
"Exceptional. The Astors, the New York Elite, and a Story of American Inequality"
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center.  Robinson Hall, Lower Library.

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