This talk focuses on the presence and the role of Jewish émigrés from Russia in Italy in 1905-1922. During this period many Jewish-Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries found both a shelter and a fertile ground for their activities in Italy—above all in Rome, Naples, Florence, Milan and on the Ligurian coast. Several Jewish representatives of the socialist movement (for instance, Mark Slonim) as well as Zionism (Vl. Zhabotinsky first and foremost) were...

Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry

Ellen G. Friedman’s presentation centers on the largely unknown story of Polish Jews who were saved from Hitler by Stalin. This story is at the center of her new book, The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story. Of the 3.3 million Jews in Poland before WWII, only about 350,000 survived, most of them by being banished to remote areas in the USSR. The reasons for the obscurity of this Holocaust narrative relate to its being the “wrong”...

Speaker(s): 

Stephen Kotkin, John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs; Co-Director, Program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy; Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

This panel discussion marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 Paris protests and will focus on the ongoing legacy of the 1968 "occupation" of public space in contemporary politics. Following this dialogue, join CES for the opening of our new exhibit in the Jacek E. Giedrojc Gallery, entitled “Occupying Paris: 1968 and the Spaces of Protest," which maps out the spaces of protest along the Seine, leveraging the spectacular collection of Paris 1968 posters held at Harvard’s Houghton Library as well as photos from Yale’s Beinecke Library.

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No one did more to promote the thought of Raymond Aron in the United States than his mentee Stanley Hoffmann. Aron, the French Cold War liberal, profoundly influenced Hoffmann's thinking on international relations theory and French political history. In many ways some of Hoffmann's most profound political insights of the 1950s and 1960s were appropriations of Aron's thought that he was the first to introduce in the United States. Yet, by the 1970s, Hoffmann began to distance himself from the conservative turn in Aron's thought. He criticized Aron's views of May 1968, his negative...

Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor Daisy Yan Du, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar: Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center

Asia Center Special Event

Professor Michael Szonyi, Author; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

Chair: Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Discussants:

Professor Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost...

We are pleased to announce the next in the SoHP Lecture Series “What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire,” co-sponsored by SoHP, Department of the Classics, and the Standing Committee on Archaeology.

On Thursday, February 15^th, Kimberly D. Bowes, Assoc. Professor of Classical Studies at UPenn, will speak from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm on “The Archaeology of Poverty: How poor were Roman peasants? Did they get poorer?” followed by a public reception. The lecture takes place in the Tsai...

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World series

Emily Fine,
University of Alabama

ANNE WALTHALL
Professor, History School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine

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

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation

See also: Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Prof. Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross

Beginning with Sylvain Lévi,  most scholars for the past century who have assessed the state of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley have described the tradition as “decadent,” “corrupted by Hinduism,” and so in serious decline. Many predicted its withering away, most often due to competition from the reformist Theravādins, a movement that arrived in Nepal a century ago. The predations of the modern Nepalese state with its staunchly Hindu biases have also been a central axis of analysis. What has emerged...

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Speaker:

Jon Stewart, Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Ilana Freedman
ifreedman@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative...

Science and Democracy Lecture

Speaker:

Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

Panelists:

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University.

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School.

David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor...