Free Public Lecture

Christian E. Loeben, Egyptologist and Keeper of Egyptian and Islamic Arts, Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany

The oldest documented gardens in the world are from ancient Egypt. Gardens were described in hieroglyphic texts and depicted in paintings, and many have been recovered through archaeology. From these sources we know that ancient Egyptians maintained gardens at temples and tombs, as well as at royal palaces and local residences. Drawing on comparisons among paintings of gardens from over fifty...

 "The 'New Scramble for Africa' from a European Perspective: A Crisis of Chain Governance Similar to the 1970s?"

Johannes Knierzinger
Visiting Scholar, 2018-2019, WIGH; Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

The seminar paper is available one week ahead of time by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Slave Economy in Campinas: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Long 19th Century. A Proposal for Expanding the Concept of Second Slavery."

Felipe Alfonso, WIGH Global Fellow; PhD Candidate, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

(no precirculated paper, just an informal presentation by Felipe. Lunch will be available.)

"The 'Ottomanization' of Europe: The Politics of International Financial Control in the 1920s"

Jamie Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of History and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

The seminar paper will be available by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

"Agents of Empire: Peasant Migration from Austrian Bukovina and Galicia to the New World"

Cristina Florea
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Albany.

The seminar paper is available by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

Eram Alam, Assistant Professor of History of Science, Harvard University

In 1965, the United States invited thousands of physicians from other countries to fill vacancies that could not be filled with American doctors. While this strategy was meant to be a short-term solution, it became a permanent feature of the U.S. health care system. Today, one quarter of practicing doctors in the U.S. are International Medical Graduates. Eram Alam will discuss the sociopolitical circumstances that encouraged physician migration to the U.S., the enduring consequences...

Please join us for a public presentation of findings by student researchers from the Harvard and Slavery Seminar.

Presenters:
Jake Ascher ’19 on Harvard’s Ceremonial Silver
Julie Ngauv ’20 on The Perkins Family Legacy
Drew Mammel ’21 on Slavery and Architecture at Elmwood
Sarah Kolenbrander GSE on a Walking Tour of Harvard and Slavery

Free and Open to the Public 
Sponsored by the Harvard and Slavery Project

The Color Pynk:
Janelle Monáe, Janet Mock, and Black Femme Futures

2019 Matthiessen Lecture by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street

Free and open to the public / Talk followed by a reception

This talk engages black femme-inist imaginations in Janelle Monáe’s music...

Featuring a newly commissioned body of work, Liz Magor: BLOWOUT will be the Canadian artist’s first East Coast institutional solo exhibition. Co-organized by the Carpenter Center and the Renaissance Society, the exhibition will first be on view in Cambridge and then travel to the Chicago. Liz Magor’s (b. 1948) sculpture quietly dramatizes the relationships that develop between objects. Often playing soft against hard, she pairs care with exposure. Adhering to exacting processes of casting, fabrication, and hand-made techniques, Magor raises...

Join the Harvard Glee Club for The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois! Du Bois was a titan in American history and Harvard’s first black Ph.D. recipient.

Our concert will honor both the man and his contributions to the movement for African American equality.

• Experience a choral interpretation of The Souls of Black Folk, with historic spirituals mentioned in the book....

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

Speaker: 

Thomas Duve
Director, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Professor of Comparative Legal History, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Sponsored by The International Academic Program – Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid and Fundación Asisa

**This event is open to the public**

GSE’s Black Student Union and Comunidad Latinx, alongside David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard & Espacio Migrante, are excited to present two short documentaries on Black Migration & Influence in México. Join us on February 28, 2019 in Askwith Hall as we screen Life Between Borders: Black migrants in México and Jamaica & Tamarindo: Afro tradition in the Heart of México alongside filmmaker Ebony Bailey and migration activist Paulina Olvera.

Post-films, we will engage in a conversation with these two powerful womxn about their work, migration,...

Professor Philip Deloria will give this semester's Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, February 21 from 6:00-7:30 pm in Barker 110. Deloria is the Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature and Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among...

Talk Title: "Dispossession and the Party Form: The Case of the MNR in Post-revolutionary Bolivia"

Speaker: Edwin Ackerman, WIGH Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University

Hosted by: The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Note: The seminar paper is available by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

Speaker: Francesca Trivellato (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study)

Talk Title: The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society