Lecture by Chanan Tigay, 2019-2020 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer who has covered the Middle East, 9/11, and the United Nations for such outlets as AFP, the Atlantic, GQ, and the New Yorker. He is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, a member of the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute, and the recipient...

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Speaker: Vlad Sirbu
(University of California, Riverside, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages)

Presented by The GSAS Germanic Circle

"Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet"

Past and Present of Southeast Asia Research Workshop

Prof. Nancy K. Florida (University of Michigan)

 

ABSTRACT 
Shortly before his death in December 1873, the renowned Javanese court poet R. Ng. Ronggawarsita composed a short work of social criticism and Islamic ethics that is among the most celebrated of Javanese literary texts. Serat Kalatidha (The Time of Darkness) reflects upon the avenues that remain open to the ethical subject in what...

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American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context

Graduate Student Panel, 11:00–1:00

Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire 2:00–3:30...

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Speaker: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto

 

Abstract:

The pseudo-Aristotelian Politics, known in Arabic as Sirr al-asrar ( secret of secrets) and in its medieval Latin translations as Secretum secretorum, purports to be Aristotle’s...

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Speaker: Alan McPherson, Professor of History, Temple University
Historian Alan McPherson of Temple University will discuss his new book about the 1976 assassination of Chilean Orlando Letelier and U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt, which took two decades to prosecute, transformed human rights, democracy, and counterterrorism in the United States and Chile, and helped end the Pinochet regime.

Alan McPherson is Freaney Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD) at Temple University. He is the author and editor...

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Speaker: Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Chaired by: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.

The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt

Jennifer L. Derr
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history, environmental history, history of science, history of medicine, and critical geography. Derr received...

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Speaker: Professor Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York

Chaired by: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
 

LECTURES IN ANISHINAABE LANGUAGE & ART, sponsored by the Harvard Committee for the Year of Indigenous Languages and the Harvard University Native American Program.

Speaker: Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University
Topic: Ojibwe language Warriors in Action: Connecting the Academy, the Community, and the Quest for Knowledge

 

LECTURES IN ANISHINAABE LANGUAGE & ART, sponsored by the Harvard Committee for the Year of Indigenous Languages and the Harvard University Native American Program.

Speaker: Alan Ojiig Corbiere, Bne doodemi, M’Chigeeng, First Nation PhD Candidate, York University
Topic: Listening for Grandfathers: Aadizookaanag in Museum Collections

Ilana Szobel, Associate Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature, Brandeis University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (academic year)

 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, with the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

*This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

DHS Seminar

Alex Csiszar (Harvard, History of Science)

 

No need to RSVP. A light lunch will be served 10 minutes before the seminar.

 

This panel discussion with two leading Jewish cultural historians examines the remarkable contributions and tragic death of the great actor, theater director, playwright, visionary of Yiddish culture, and Jewish activist Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (1890–1948). Born Shloyme Vovsi in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), the genius actor Mikhoels became the chief director of the State Jewish Theater in Moscow. During World War II, he served as chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Mikhoels’ assassination by Stalin’s secret police, although officially billed as an accident, augured the...

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Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia is a Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and a very well-known national political figure in that country. He is a policy expert with nearly 30 years of experience in public policy design, implementation and advocacy; particularly, in the areas of sustainable regional development, social inclusion and peace building. Mr. Murillo-Urrutia has led numerous initiatives, both domestically and internationally. A decade ago, he played a key role as leading voice in advocating in Washington, DC for a U.S. policy towards... Read more about "Climate Change Crisis and Tropical Forest and Biodiversity Conservation: An Afro-Colombian Perspective"