Alexandra Petrova was born in St. Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu, where she wrote a thesis on the prose of Leonid Dobychin. In 1993 she emigrated to Jerusalem, and since 1998 she has lived in Rome. 

She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Point of Detachment [Liniia otryva] (1994), Permit to Live [Vid na zhitel’stvo] (1999) and Only the Trees [Tolko derev’ia] (2008).  She has also written Dolly’s Shepherds [...

Cuba Studies Program

Speaker: Cary Aileen Garcia Yero, History Department, Harvard University

Between 1940 and 1958, the Cuban state worked to support and developed Cuba’s artistic culture. This presentation explores how cultural administrators actively participated in discourses that defined what was valued as “culture” and what constituted Cuban “art”. It analyses the racialized ideas that underpinned state cultural policy and the effects these had on Cuban black artists and on perceptions of black heritage within...

Speaker: Mateo Jarquín, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

Today, most historic Sandinista leaders oppose current president Daniel Ortega. This talk shows how a much-changed FSLN, in alliance with its former ‘counterrevolutionary’ foes in the Church and business elite, has consolidated an authoritarian regime in Nicaragua.

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CMES is pleased to present the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series speaker

Nasser Rabbat
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rocco Rante
Researcher-Archaeologist, Louvre Museum, Paris

Born in Rome, Rocco Rante received his PhD in Archaeology and the History of Islamic Art at the University of Provence (...

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents

Benjamin Braude
Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston College; Research Associate, Department of Religion, Smith College

In March 2015 the Islamic University of Al-Imam Muhammad bin Saud held the Second International Conference on the History of King Abdulaziz. That is the outer play. The inner play is my contribution: how Abdulaziz manipulated the unwitting British representative in Riyadh, Harry St. John Philby, in 1917-1918, to support a key...

The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) Lunchtime Seminar presents:

"The Development Narrative Versus the Bias Narrative: Persistent Racial Inequality in the 2ast Century"
Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

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"From Opportunity to Stereotypes: The Transformation of Title IX"
R. Shep Melnick, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Professor of American Politics, Boston College

The Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University is directed by Harvey Mansfield. PCG Seminar talks are open to the public but RSVP is required. RSVP to pcg@gov.harvard.edu. 

R. Shep Melnick, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Professor of American Politics, Boston College

Abstract: The original objective of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was to provide equal educational opportunity to women and girls. As the doors of opportunity swung open, women and girls rushed through, outperforming their male counterparts at nearly all educational levels. Yet over the past decade, Title IX has become more...

African Studies Workshop

Kenda Mutongi is Professor of African History at Williams College and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor of History at MIT. Her research interests include: Modern Africa (focus on eastern and southern Africa); Women’s and Gender History; Political Economy; Urban History; Historical Ethnography; and Business History. At Williams College, Mutongi has served as chair of the Africana Studies and the Africa/Middle Eastern Studies Programs, is on the editorial boards of several journals in African Studies, and teaches a...

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Iurii Zazuliak, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Ivan Krypiakevych Institute ofUkrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine)

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Marci Shore,  Associate Professor of History, Yale University 

Speaker:

Leonardo Bursztyn, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics...