SPEAKER

Robert Anderson, Harvard Law School

A forum for the interdisciplinary study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas. All are welcome from Harvard and the wider community.

*Free Parking for...

SPEAKER

Allan Downey, McMaster University

A forum for the interdisciplinary study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas. All are welcome from Harvard and the wider community.

*Free Parking for seminar participants is available at Broadway Garage (Felton St....

SPEAKER

Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University

A forum for the interdisciplinary study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas. All are welcome from Harvard and the wider community.

*Free Parking for seminar participants is available at Broadway Garage (Felton St....

Academy Scholars are appointed for a two-year-in-residence, postdoctoral fellowship. They receive substantial financial and research assistance. The Senior Scholars, a distinguished group of Harvard University faculty members, act as mentors to the Academy Scholars to help them achieve their intellectual potential. 

Access the online application at https://...

Cold War Studies Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Josef Pazderka, Editor-in-Chief, Aktuálně.cz
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"Isaiah Berlin: Philosopher of Freedom" is a 72 minute documentary film tracing the development of his ideas in the context of his life and times. The film presents this intellectual biography through interviews with Sir Isaiah, and filmed for the documentary, with Michael Ignatieff, his biographer, and Henry Hardy, his principal editor, along with Alfred Brendel, pianist and friend, and others.

About

A film by Judith Wechsler, Professor Emerita, Tufts University

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SPEAKER

Paul Hanebrink

Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University

For much of the twentieth century, Europe was haunted by a threat of Judeo-Bolshevism myth. This myth—that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe—was a paranoid fantasy, and yet fears of a Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy took hold during the Russian Revolution and spread across Europe. During World War II, these fears sparked genocide.

Paul Hanebrink will discuss the...

Featuring:

Peter Hayes, Northwestern University

SPEAKER

Gil Rubin

Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

During the first years of the Second World War, before knowledge of the extermination of Jews had...

Speaker:

Simon Levis Sullam
Associate Professor of Modern History, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice

The talk addresses the role of ordinary Italians in the Holocaust. Contrary to commonly held conceptions, almost half of the about 8,000 Jews arrested in Italy and deported mostly to Auschwitz, in 1943-45, were arrested by Italians. Mussolini had paved the ground for this with anti-Jewish propaganda and persecution since the...

Speaker:
Dariusz Stola

Director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, has been considered one of the best examples of progress in Polish-Jewish...

For updated information please see: https://africa.harvard.edu/event/public-lecture-data-revolution-african-economic-history-boston

The Marxist struggle reaches outer space in this fanciful Russian science fiction film from the silent period. Los (Nikolai Tsereteli) is an engineer who dreams of traveling to other worlds and imagines that a...

Yulia Latynina, Columnist for Ekho Moskvy, Novaya Gazeta, and The Moscow Times

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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