A Persian New Year Celebration
 

Celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year and the beginning of spring, with poetry, music, traditional sweets, and an exploration of the traditional Haft Seen table.

More than 3,000 years old, Nowruz (“new day”) originated in...

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Brandon Bloch
PhD Student in History and Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

 

Brandon Bloch will present a chapter of his dissertation which follows the role of Protestant intellectuals in the transformation of West German public opinion on Europe's postwar territorial settlement and West German reconciliation with Eastern Europe from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. In 1965, a commission of the German Protestant Church issued a memorandum calling on the West German...

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Dan Slater, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies and Director, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan

 

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

 

Spsonsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center

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Edo/Tokyo and Meiji Revolution
MEGUMI MATSUYAMA
Associate Professor of Modern History, Meiji University and Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar

Approaches to the History of the Modern Japanese City
JORDAN SAND
Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University

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

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation 

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Program on U.S. - Japan Relations

Louise Young
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Special Series on the Changing Face of Japan

This seminar series is supported by...

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Political Economy Seminar:  

Nancy Fraser, the Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School, will present her paper titled "Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory." Professor Rudi Batzell of Lake Forest College and Brandon Finn (GSD) will provide comments.

If you need a copy of the paper, please email Samantha Payne,spayne@g.harvard.edu

 

Nado Signona, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Directof of the Institute of Research into Superdiversity, Univerity of Birmingham, UK

 

Introduction by Dr. Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz

Followed by conversation with film Director Medhin Paolos and Dr. Angela Davis

(Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway). Doors will open at 5:30pm. This program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

Free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis,...

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Ju Hong

Erika Andiola

and More!

The seminar is co-organized by History Department faculty Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld in partnership with Roberto G. Gonzales of the Ed School.

DACA Seminar is an event series around questions related to the termination of DACA and TPS, deportations, the current state of immigration policy and practice and implications for young people, parents, families, communities, scholars, artists, workers, policy makers and practitioners.

 

 

Join us for performances and workshops by artisits, poets, and musicians

Rebel Diaz, Audry Funk, Martha Gonzalez, Quetzal Flores, Vijay Tyer, Esperanza Spalding, Yosimar Reyes, Julio Salgado, Sonia Guinansaca, Claire Chase

Deborah Anker, Harvard Law

Sabrineh Ardalan, Harvard Law

Dan Kanstroom, Boston College Law

Mike Wishnie, Yale Law

Moderated by Christine Desan

The seminar is co-organized by History Department faculty Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld in partnership with Roberto G. Gonzales of the Ed School.

 

DACA Seminar is an event series around questions related to the termination of DACA and TPS, deportations, the current state of...

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Denisse Rojas, Pre Health Dreamers

Monica Sibri, CUNY DREAMers

Maria Blanco, UC Legal Services Center

Meng So, Undocumented Student Program, UC Berkeley

The seminar is co-organized by History Department faculty Walter Johnson and Kirsten Weld in partnership with Roberto G. Gonzales of the Ed School.

DACA Seminar is an event series around questions related to the termination of DACA and TPS, deportations, the current state of immigration policy and practice and...

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Astou Thiane, Teach for America

Viri Carrizales, Teach for America

Luis Ortega, Storytellers for Change

Jin Park, Harvard University

Mary Skipper, Superintendent, Somerville Public Schools

Join us for a conversation with workers directly affected by the TPS repeal:

• Martha Bonilla, UNITE HERE Local 26
• Doris Reina-Landaverde, 32BJ SEIU
• Julio Perez, Comité TPS Massachusetts

Excerpt from a letter delieved to President Drew Faust on February 1, 2018. The letter was signed by a coalition workers, faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students across the university:

The Department of Homeland Security announced between November 6, 2017 and January 8, 2018 that TPS would be terminated for Nicaragua, Haiti and El...

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