Persian and Persianate Studies presents:
From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

Speaker: Abhishek Kaicker
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard, Society of Fellows

Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/persian-and-persianate-studies

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Speaker: Paul Ortiz (University of Florida)

Talk Title: “An African American and Latinx History of the United States”

An event of the Warren Center’s Occasional Speakers Series, presented in collaboration with Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights

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Speaker:
João Pacheco de Oliveira
Professor of Anthropology, Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Curator of the Ethnology
Collections, National Museum of Brazil

Opening Remarks:
Louise Cardoso de Mello, Visiting Fellow
Department of History, Harvard University

Closing Remarks:
Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and
African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Event to be streamed on the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology's Facebook Page

Presented by: Peabody Museum of...

Speaker:
Jocelyne Dakhlia
Director of Studies, Center for Historical Research, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)

Jocelyne Dakhlia is a French historian and anthropologist. A director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, her work is concerned principally with the political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The daughter of a French mother and a Tunisian father, Dakhlia was...

Speaker:
Jocelyne Dakhlia
Director of Studies, Center for Historical Research, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)

Jocelyne Dakhlia is a French historian and anthropologist. A director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, her work is concerned principally with the political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The daughter of a French mother and a Tunisian...

Populism, global crisis, and modernity have rendered citizenship a fluid and troubled concept.

Even as millions of migrants from poorer countries struggle for citizenship in places like Canada, Europe, and the United States, wealthy families and individuals often have the means to purchase legal citizenship rights in a new country. In the United States, prominent court cases have granted the legal rights of citizens to corporations, which are themselves created by the government. Meanwhile,...

How can graduate students think strategically, self-reflect, and pursue a meaningful career in academia and beyond? Join us for a presentation, discussion and Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Polk, academic, life, and career coach for graduate students, and co-founder of Beyond the Professoriate and From PhD to Life

(There will be a reception to follow the event)

Hosted by the Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Career Group @ GSAS and supported by the GSAS Student Engagement Fund and the Harvard FAS Office of Career Services

Generous...

Mohammad Fadel, Professor Of Law, University Of Toronto 
Lecture: “Nushuz, Lawful Discipline and Spouse Abuse in the Maliki Madhab: A History and Its Relevance to Modern Islamic Law Reform”

Nisa' 4:34 has received a disproportionate share of commentary among reformist Muslim scholars of this generation insofar as its plain sense appears to affirm the right of the husband not only to discipline a recalcitrant wife, but also to use physical violence to do so. Professor Fadel explores the historical evolution of Maliki...

THURSDAY, MARCH 28
1:15–3:45 pm
Military, Civilians, and the State

4:00–5:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Keith Camacho
“On Native Testimony: Military Tribunals, War Crimes,
and Imperial Judgment in Guam”

FRIDAY, MARCH 29
9:30 am–12:00 pm
Science, Technology, and Warfare

1:00–3:30 pm
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and Militarization

4:00–5:30pm
Plenary Panel
• Professor Keith Camacho, University of California Los Angeles
• Professor Saje Mathieu, University of Minnesota
• Professor Fredrik Logevall, Harvard...

Speaker: Eyal Naveh, Visiting Professor of History and CES Resident Faculty (Spring 2019); Professor of History, Tel Aviv University

Chair: Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History and Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University

In the talk, Naveh will reflect on the experience of contributing to the writing of an Israeli-Palestinian history textbook that ended in a dual narrative structure and method, of which he was involved in the first decade of the 21st century. In addition, Naveh will analyze the process and interpret the goals and...

The Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard invites you to its next event in the Digital Futures Discovery Series showcasing the groundbreaking techniques scholars are developing to tackle the increasingly challenging task of conducting digital research. 

Manually searching through more than 46 million digital records is an intractable research task. This is what lay ahead of Benjamin as a Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as he sought to aggregate the death certificate ref­erence cards of individuals who perished in con­...

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.