Speaker: Jason Ferreira (San Francisco State University) 
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies” 

Please contact the Charles Warren Center at the following email to request the workshop paper: cwc@fas.harvard.edu

Read more about “An Undying Love for Our People: The Third World Strike and the Struggle for Ethnic Studies”

Speaker: Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies” 

Please contact the Charles Warren Center at the following email to request the workshop paper: cwc@fas.harvard.edu

Read more about “Dying in Diaspora”

Speaker: Garrett Felber (University of Mississippi)

Presented by the Warren Center’s Occasional Speakers Series
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room (Lunch will be provided)

Please contact the Charles Warren Center at the following email to request the workshop paper: cwc@fas.harvard.edu Read more about (Book Talk) “Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.”

Speaker: Umayyah Cable (Purchase College, State University of New York)

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies” 

Please contact the Charles Warren Center at the following email to request the workshop paper: cwc@fas.harvard.edu

Read more about “Media Intifada: Palestine and Media Activism in the United States”

Speaker:
Sunny Yudkoff, Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The presentation discusses the transnational phenomenon of the tubercular Jewish writers in the first decades of the twentieth century by examining the consequences of tuberculosis in both their lives and literature. Sholem Aleichem, whose work would be adapted into Fiddler on the Roof, sought relief for his ailing lungs...

Read more about The Bacterial Turn in Yiddish Literature: Two Case Studies

Speaker: 
Noam Shuster-Eliassi, Comedian, Visiting Fellow with the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Harvard Divinity School

*This event is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Professor Kirsten Weld will give one of our Spring 2020 Distinguished Lectures in History & Literature.

Kirsten Weld is Professor of History at Harvard University. A historian of modern Latin America, her research explores 20th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion. Professor Weld's first book, ...

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Megan Kate Nelson will give one of our Spring 2020 Distinguished Lectures in History & Literature.

Megan Kate Nelson earned her BA in History & Literature at Harvard, and her PhD in American Studies at Iowa. A former tutor in History & Literature, she has also taught at Texas Tech, Cal State Fullerton, MIT, and Brown. Her new book, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West...

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"The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe"
Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellow Professor, School of Historical Studies, Princeton University

Graduate Student Commentator: Juliette Francoise, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: ...

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"Was Japan's Industrialization Different? Labour Intensity and the Developmental State, 1868-1937"
Peer Vries, Research Fellow, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands

Graduate Student Commentator: Charlotte...

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"Black Slavery and World Accumulation: Towards a Global History of Value"
Tâmis Parron, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Graduate Student Commentators:
Felipe Alfonso, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
...

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"Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam"
Tithi Bhattacharaya, Professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies, Purdue University

Graduate Student Commentator: ...

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"Oil, Casinos, and Indigenous Capitalism: A History of the Seminoles from Oklahoma to Florida"
Mandy M. Izadi, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH; Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History, University of Oxford

Graduate Student Commentators:
Ione Barrows...

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The Harvard Law School Annual Lecture on Latin American and European Legal History

Talk Title: Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France

Speaker:
Ada Kuskowski
Assistant Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences

This event is open to the public.

Sponsored by:
The International Academic Program –Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Fundación Asisa, and The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

 

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with Dr. Julia Rhyder, Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher at the Theologische Fakultät, entitled “The Origins of the Pig Taboo in Judaism: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees”

Abstract: Pig avoidance is a well-known feature of Judaism today, and yet, strikingly, it is rarely mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In this lecture, Julia...

Read more about "The Origins of the Pig Taboo in Judaism: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees"