Speaker: Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Chaired by: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.

The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt

Jennifer L. Derr
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history, environmental history, history of science, history of medicine, and critical geography. Derr received...

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Speaker: Professor Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York

Chaired by: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
 

LECTURES IN ANISHINAABE LANGUAGE & ART, sponsored by the Harvard Committee for the Year of Indigenous Languages and the Harvard University Native American Program.

Speaker: Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University
Topic: Ojibwe language Warriors in Action: Connecting the Academy, the Community, and the Quest for Knowledge

 

LECTURES IN ANISHINAABE LANGUAGE & ART, sponsored by the Harvard Committee for the Year of Indigenous Languages and the Harvard University Native American Program.

Speaker: Alan Ojiig Corbiere, Bne doodemi, M’Chigeeng, First Nation PhD Candidate, York University
Topic: Listening for Grandfathers: Aadizookaanag in Museum Collections

Ilana Szobel, Associate Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature, Brandeis University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (academic year)

 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, with the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

*This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

DHS Seminar

Alex Csiszar (Harvard, History of Science)

 

No need to RSVP. A light lunch will be served 10 minutes before the seminar.

 

This panel discussion with two leading Jewish cultural historians examines the remarkable contributions and tragic death of the great actor, theater director, playwright, visionary of Yiddish culture, and Jewish activist Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (1890–1948). Born Shloyme Vovsi in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), the genius actor Mikhoels became the chief director of the State Jewish Theater in Moscow. During World War II, he served as chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Mikhoels’ assassination by Stalin’s secret police, although officially billed as an accident, augured the...

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Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia is a Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and a very well-known national political figure in that country. He is a policy expert with nearly 30 years of experience in public policy design, implementation and advocacy; particularly, in the areas of sustainable regional development, social inclusion and peace building. Mr. Murillo-Urrutia has led numerous initiatives, both domestically and internationally. A decade ago, he played a key role as leading voice in advocating in Washington, DC for a U.S. policy towards... Read more about "Climate Change Crisis and Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Conservation: An Afro-Colombian Perspective"

A journey through the world of Byzantine and Ottoman sacred and secular music and their legacy in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. This highly interactive workshop examines the sacralization of the profane and the profanation of the sacred in music theory and practice of the Orthodox Christian and Islamic East.

Featuring:

-Kyriakos Kalaitzidis, PhD, award-winning composer, musician, and founding member of the En Chords Ensemble

-Rev. Fr. Romanos Karanos, Assistant Professor of Byzantine Liturgical Music, Hellenic College Holy Cross and Artistic...

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The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World: Knowledge, Power, Practice

November 15, 2019
Harvard University
Location: Lower Library, Robinson Hall
Time: 9-5pm

9:00-10:20am
Home and Belonging in the Diaspora
Carrying Culture: Temporal and Spatial Constructions of Somalia Among Women in the Diaspora
Suban Nur Cooley (Michigan State University)

The Qalanjo Project: Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Approaches to Bridge Gaps & Create...

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The Mahindra Center for the Humanities Rethinking Translation Seminar

presents 

The Catastrophe of Translation

Adriana X. Jacobs
Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature; Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford...

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Rebecca Kobrin, Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University; Joseph Engel Visiting Professor in American Jewish Studies: History Department, Harvard University (fall 2019) 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University; with the Davis Center Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Free and open to the public! 

Read more about Russian Jewish Immigrant 'Bankers' and American Finance: The Case of Saul Singer and the Bank of United States

Speaker: Ruodi Duan (Harvard University)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead...

Read more about HIGHS Seminar: "Chinese Visions of African American History, Politics, and Culture, 1960-1964"

Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson (Southern Methodist University)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead...

Read more about HIGHS Seminar: “Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980"