Featuring:

Aaron Spevack, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School

Talfīq--the juristic practice of combining differing legal opinions to resolve a new issue and thereby produce an unprecedented ruling--is often framed as an impious and capricious endeavor aimed at cutting corners. However, jurists have used this practice in ways that have had tremendous social impact, both positive and negative. This talk will address various debates on the permissibility of using talfiq, its social impact, and prominent instances of state...

Warren Center Occasional Speakers Series

Featuring:

Jessica Krug (George Washington University)

For more on Fugitive Modernities, see https://www.dukeupress.edu/fugitive-modernities/?viewby=title...

Paul-André Bempéchat, Pianist

This conference will reflect on the protests of 1968 and their historical and intellectual ramifications by taking a fresh look at the legacies of that tumultuous year. The cultural icon “1968” has transformed into many distinct areas which far exceed the intentions and experiences of those who participated in the actual events. At its fiftieth anniversary, we will mark the transition of ’68 from memory to history by fostering a conversation that would provide a novel perspective towards this...

Speaker: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona

Organizer: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Panelists:
Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego
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Postdoctoral fellows Christina Davidson, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Juliet Nebolon, and Kristina Shull will offer brief presentations of their work, and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies. For more on the fellows and their topics, see https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/postdoc-fellows

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The Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), a collaboration between The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany (MPISHH) announces an opportunity for recent and graduating seniors and Master’s students to participate in a Young Investigator Symposium.

For students...

Jeremy Guillette, Digital Scholarship Facilitator, Harvard University

Jeremy Guillette will demonstrate and discuss established and emerging digital tools students of Islamic legal history and contemporary Islamic law may use in their research. Space is limited. For...

SPEAKER

Roy Mottahedeh

Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, Department of History, Harvard University

SPEAKER:

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This series is sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), the Department of Government at Harvard University, and the Harvard Kennedy School. These talks are free and open to the public. 

SPEAKER:

William Howell  (University of Chicago)

This series is sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), the...

Please join us for a memorial service celebrating the life of Professor Richard E. Pipes (1923-2018).

RSVPs to daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4037 are welcome.

Co-sponsored by the Pipes family, the Davis Center for...

SPEAKER:

Christopher R. Leighton, MIT

Open to the public

Reception at conclusion