Harvey Goldblatt, Yale University

Liat Spiro

Global American Studies Symposium, featuring panels on “Migration and the Transnational,” “Nations and Empires,” “Black Liberation across Centuries,” and “(Anti)-Imperialism.”

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Speaker: Stuart Schrader
Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

A  Symposium Moderated by Lisa McGirr. 

Panelists Michael Kazin (Georgetown University), Mary Dudziak (Emory University), Jeffrey T. Sammons (New York University), and Chad Williams (Brandeis University). Presented by the Warren Center.

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Speakers: Lina Britto, Assistant Professor Department of History, Northwestern University

Ana Villarreal, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University

Froylan Enciso, CIDE; Senior Analyst, Crisis Group Mexico

For the last half a century, Mexico and Colombia have been ground zeros of the problematic drug trade that connects North and South America in a murderous circuit of profits and politics. This talk addresses the local, regional, national, and transnational origins of the illegal business...

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Speaker: Lilia Schwarcz, Full Professor of Anthropology, the University of São Paulo (USP); Visiting Professor, Princeton University

 

The main goal of this lecture is to analyze the life and work of Lima Barreto: a black writer in Rio de Janeiro who fought against discrimination...

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Eden Medina,
School Of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering,
Indiana University

"Unmaking Truth After Dictatorship: Science, Memory, and the Disappeared"

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Jennifer Derr,
Department of History, UC Santa Cruz 

"Origin Stories: Constructing the liver in Egypt through epidemics of schistosomiasis and hepatitis C"

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Gastón Gordillo,
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

"Ambient Thickness: On the Atmospheric Materiality of the Anthropocene"

Abstract: In the humanities...

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Ahmed Ragab, 
Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School

"Islam as a Postcolony: Science, History and Modernism in the Making of Ethnoreligious Identities"

Abstract: In...

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Ece Temelkuran
Turkish political commentator, journalist, and author

Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and author. She was a columnist...

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Dr. Esra Dil
Sakarya University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School

Previously titled: Strategic Orientations of Long-lived Companies of Turkey: Cases From the Late Ottoman Era

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a screening of

Dracula in Istanbul/Drakula İstanbul'da (1953)
Director: Mehmet Muhtar

With a brief introduction by Prof Cemal Kafadar....

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