This event is co-organized by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Opening Remarks by:
Drew Faust
President of Harvard University
Lincoln Professor of History

Introduction by:
Mohsen Mostafavi
Dean and Alexander and...

Leading members from the Oneida Nation, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and United Houma Nation of Louisiana will discuss vital issues of tribal citizenship in Indian Country. By exploring topics such as constitutional reform, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and descendancy, the speakers will discuss the many different ways Native tribes and nations define, grant, and express indigenous citizenship.
 
This program is cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Honoring Nations program.

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A Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary Event

Coined in 2007 by activist Tarana Burke, the hashtag #metoo became in late 2017 a global media tsunami. As what some scholars are calling the “first wave” of the #metoo...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Ukrainian studies at Harvard University. To celebrate this milestone, HURI will hold a two-day commemorative conference at Harvard on May 11-12, 2018. The conference is free and open to the public.

http://huri.harvard.edu/news/news-from-huri/335-huri-plans-conference-to-mark-fifty-years-of-ukrainian-studies-at-harvard.html

Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/serhii-plokhy-lost-kingdom-tickets-41884522735
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Ukraine Study Group

The Six Futures of Ukraine: Competing Scenarios for a European Pivot State

Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv

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The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University members of the Harvard community and the general public

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Presented by the Workshop on Crime and Punishment.

Toussaint Losier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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A Persian New Year Celebration
 

Celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year and the beginning of spring, with poetry, music, traditional sweets, and an exploration of the traditional Haft Seen table.

More than 3,000 years old, Nowruz (“new day”) originated in...

Brandon Bloch
PhD Student in History and Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Brandon Bloch will present a chapter of his dissertation which follows the role of Protestant intellectuals in the transformation of West German public opinion on Europe's postwar territorial settlement and West German reconciliation with Eastern Europe from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. In 1965, a commission of the German Protestant Church issued a memorandum calling on the West German...

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Dan Slater, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies and Director, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Spsonsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center

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Edo/Tokyo and Meiji Revolution
MEGUMI MATSUYAMA
Associate Professor of Modern History, Meiji University and Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar

Approaches to the History of the Modern Japanese City
JORDAN SAND
Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University

Moderator: David L. Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation 

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