Postdoctoral Fellows Christina Davidson, Kristina Shull, Hannah Waits, and Courtney Sato will offer brief presentations of their work and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies.

2019 Annual Robert and Florence Dreben lecture
Ruth Calderon, Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, Harvard Law School

Dr. Ruth Calderon is one of Israel’s leading figures in the effort to revive Hebrew culture and sustain a pluralistic Israeli-Jewish identity and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in January 2013. She became a national celebrity when she taught a page of Talmud in the Israeli parliament, arguing that the text was the heritage of the entire Jewish people. She is founder and former director of...

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Reflections by:
Professor Boaz Barak
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University
Dr. Ofrit Liviatan
Lecturer on law and politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
Professor Abraham Loeb
Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
Professor Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Harvard University


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Dr. Irit Aharony...Read more about Reading Amos Oz Through Many Eyes

Maya Arad, Hebrew author and writer in residence at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University, will discuss her novella The Hebrew Teacher, a portrait of an individual and a discipline at a significant turning point in their life.

This lecture is free and open to the public

"The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents Harriet, the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Following the film, David B. Wilkins, the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies...

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Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents We Call BS, a film in progress, features Emma Gonzalez, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when she gave a powerful speech at an anti-gun rally on February 18, 2018, calling "BS" on lawmakers and gun advocates.

Following the film, Robb Moss, Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard, converses with Us Kids director Kim Snyder, Us Kids producer Maria Cuomo Coles, David...

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Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents The Biggest Little Farm, directed by John Chester and starring John and Molly Chester, follows two dreamers and a dog on an odyssey to bring harmony to both their lives and the land.  John and Molly Chester make a choice that takes them out of the city and onto 200 acres in the foothills of Ventura County, naively endeavoring to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete...

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Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination," presents The Two Popes, a biographical drama, directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins. Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Following the film, Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church at Harvard, will converse with producer Jonathan Eirich.  Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged....

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A public talk by Hana Worthen, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University

Analyzing a wide range of media, from postcards to film to mass performances, Professor Hana Worthen considers how National Socialist world-building politics depended on a pre-digital and corporeal modality of transmediality to create a performative—affective and participatory—mass body...

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Speaker:
llse Josepha Lazaroms
German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University; Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University

Chair:
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; President, American Academy for...

Read more about Emigration from Paradise: Jewish Stories from Interwar Hungary

Speaker:
Nicole Jordan
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Chair:
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; President, American Academy for Jewish Research

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“The greatest criminal...

Read more about A Premonition of the Shoah? R. A. Reiss’s Photographs of Monástir, 1917

Speaker:
Leora Auslander
Professor of European Social History and the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization, The University of Chicago

Chair:
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; President, American Academy for Jewish Research

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Read more about Diasporic Home-making: Jews in Paris and Berlin in the 20th Century

Speaker:
Jacques Sémelin
Professor in Modern History and Political Science, Science Po; Senior Researcher Emeritus, Center for International Studies (CERI-CNRS)

Chair:
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; President, American Academy for Jewish Research...

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Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination," presents The Great Hack, a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer.

Following the film, Geralyn Dreyfous, executive producer, and Carole Cadwalladr, journalist from The Guardian, and Ravi Naik, Human and Data Rights Barrister, will discuss the film. Dialogue with the...

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Speaker: Oyungerel Tsedevdamba (Author and former member of Parliament of Mongolia)

Since its initial publication in 2008, Oyungerel Tsedevdamba’s historical novel, The Green-Eyed Lama (Ногоон нуден лам), co-written with Jeffrey Falt, has been on the bestseller list in Mongolia. Now available in French and English translations, its captivating tale of politics, religion, love, and intrigue providing readers with a rare inside view of the upheavals that rocked the country in the 1930s and 1940s. Sendmaa, a young herdswoman, falls in love...

Read more about The Green-Eyed Lama (Ногоон нуден лам): Reflections on the best-selling novel and Mongolia’s recent history