The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Ana Pulido Rull. Mapping Indigenous Land. Native land Grants in Colonial New Spain. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

The Legal history workshop presents Simona Cerutti (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), “Justice for the poor? Jurisdiction and debt-credit relationships (Savoyard State, 18th century).” Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at law.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

Early Modern Workshop

Joris van den Tol (Post-doctoral Rubicon Scholar, Harvard University/University of Leiden), “The America Company: from networks to institutions in the Anglo-Dutch seventeenth-century Atlantic.” Commentator: Sergio Leos. Please email emework@fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

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The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Joanne Rappaport and Thomas Cummins. Beyond the Lettered City. Indigenous Literacies in the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, with authors present.” Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

The Legal history workshop presents Arnulf Becker Loria (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile), “The Tawantisuyo invaded by demons: Inca interventions in Spanish colonial law.” Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at law.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

Difficult Objects: A Transnational Feminist Book Conversation

panel discussion with Durba Mitra, Simidele Dosekun, & Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Tuesday 9/22, 2:00pm ET, Webinar (...

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The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers

book talk with Mark Gevisser & George Paul Meiu
Monday 9/21, 6:00pm, Webinar (...

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CMES & THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

present a discussion of

ARCHIVE WARS

THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA

by Rosie Bsheer Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of...

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Thomas Scholz (Graduate Student in Comparative Literature at Washington University at St. Louis) will present his paper "Between Aesthetics and Politics: Reception and Production of The Neverending Story". The lecture will be followed by a brief discussion. Please email Rebecca Stewart for a link to the zoom meeting (rebeccastewart@g.harvard.edu).

Zahra Takhshid, Reginald F. Lewis Fellow, Harvard Law School

This talk is based on an article that aims to contribute to the legal scholarship on online disinformation and defamation by focusing on false and defamatory speech in Islam. With over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world, eighty percent of which live in Muslim majority countries, there is little scholarship in English on speech etiquette and the sanctity of the individual’s reputation in Islam. The Islamic teachings in this area are not just theological commands. As this article...

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Speaker:Nurul Huda Mohd Razif, Evans Fellow, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School

In Muslim-majority Malaysia today, marriage is recognized as the only acceptable means of securing access to lawful sexual intimacy. This is reinforced by Islamic, Malay cultural (adat), as well as legal restrictions on pre-/extra-marital sexual intimacy, which is criminalized under the Malaysian Syariah law’s Criminal Offences Act. This talk discusses the role of the state-led Vice Prevention Unit (Unit Pencegah...

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Please note that this event has been cancelled!

 

 

Presenters:

Sana Aiyar, Associate Professor of History, MIT

From Fragments to Biographies: Archival Shadows and the Recovery of Burma’s South Asian History

 

Kalyani Ramnath, Prize Fellow, CHE...

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Speaker: Amira Bennison, Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib, University of Cambridge 

Speaker: Amy Singer, Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor of History, Brandeis University

Abstract: Hekim Beşir Çelebi was apparently a fifteenth-century physician (hekim), invited to leave the court of the Karamanid ruler in south-central Anatolia in order to join the Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II (1451-81) in Edirne, in eastern Thrace. Edirne remained the most important Ottoman city in southern Europe until the end of the Ottoman era and beyond. The text – Tarih-i Edirne. Hikayet-i Beşir Çelebi (...

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Speaker: Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago

Li is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, December 2019), which develops an ethnographic approach to the comparative study of universalism using the example of transnational “jihadists” — specifically, Arabs and other foreigners who fought in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia...

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