Frank Blibo A.M., MTS, Th.M.: PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine present: ...

The Afro-Latin American Research Institute will host Interactive Workshop delivered by James Almeida "Minting Slavery: Labor and Race in Potosí, 1570-1800" on...

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, and Maria Tatar, Harvard University

$10 registration fee per person. (No Charge for MHS Members or Fellows)

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Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS)

Sponsor Center for the Study of World Religions

Contact CSWR, 617.495.4476

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Robin Coste Lewis, National Book Award winner and poet laureate of Los Angeles, will give a talk and reading at the inaugural event in the Poetry, Philosophy, and Religion series at the Center for...

Sponsor Harvard Divinity School and the James Luther Adams Foundation

Contact HDS Office of Academic Affairs: 617.495.4513

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From the Commission of Appraisal in 1936 to the Black Empowerment impulse of the 1960s, James Luther Adams was a significant shaper of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist institutions. And as a social ethicist, he helped envision the new national and international institutions that emerged in the post-World War II period. Professor Dan McKanan’s lecture will explore the way Adams translated his theological and ethical vision...

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
Associate Professor in History at King’s College London

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Zia-Ebrahimi builds on recent comparative research on antisemitism and Islamophobia to argue that the two display similar dynamics in representing their target population as a hostile race (a process referred to as ‘racialization’). His research suggests that conspiracy theories of the ‘world Jewish conspiracy’ type, and their Islamophobic equivalent, the ‘Islamisation of Europe’ type, are powerful enablers of racialization, something that the literature has so far...

Speaker(s): 

Sean Griffin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Teacher Workshop

Russian Revolution Centenary Programming

One hundred years later, we will gather to discuss the Russian Revolution, its direct and indirect international effects, and how to bring this content into K-14 classrooms. 

Speaker(s): 

Historical Significance of the Revolution 100 Years Later...

The 2017–2018 Fellows Seminar is coordinated by Professors Stephanie Sandler and Terry Martin.

Speaker(s): 

Hayk Anoushavan Demoyan, Director, Armenia Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Interested in Latin America? Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region this summer! Gain internship experience, study, or participate in experiential learning through immersive programs offered between June - August,...

Please join us for the fourth session of the GSAS Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series. Lydia Walker, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University, will workshop her paper, "On the March," a history of the 1963 Delhi-to-Peking Friendship March following the 1962 India-China War.

The seminar will be in Robinson Lower Level Library on Thursday, November 30, 4-6 pm. A light dinner will be served, and you are free to hang out and chat till 7 pm.

Please join us for the third session of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series. Zayad Bangash, PhD Candidate in History, George Washington University, will workshop his paper, "From Martial Race Mercenaries to Defenders of the Nation," a history of the peoples of the North-west Frontier of British India, 1930-60.

The commentators are Professor Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, and Saira B. Orakzai, Fellow at Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and NELC at Harvard University.

The seminar will be in ...