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The Department of near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University presents: 

Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands

A lecture with Dr. Miriam Goldstein
(Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature and chair of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of...

Free Lecture and Book Signing

Lukas Rieppell, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History, Brown University

Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of late-nineteenth-century discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. Around the same time, the United States also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and spectacular creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops ...

Hosted by:
Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences 
Lawrence Bobo, Dean of Social Science, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Speakers:
Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in Hist. and African & Afr. Amer. Stud.
Incarcerated Scholars Project
Ryan Enos, Professor of Government
Long-Term Effects of Racial Diversity: Evidence from Linked Census and Voter File Data
Benjamin...

Speakers:
John Brewer, Eli and Edith Broad Professor of the Humanities emeritus, California Institute of Technology, and Associate at Harvard University Department of History
Cristiano Casalini, Associate Professor and Endowed Chair in Jesuit Pedagogy and Educational History and a Research Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College
Anja-Silvia Goeing, Associate at Harvard University/Professor at University of Zurich, Early Modern History and History of Education.
Philipp Gonon, Professor of Vocational Education, Head...

... Read more about Roderick MacFarquhar 1930 - 2019 | A Celebration

Each ARTS FIRST festival is unique but every year combines the exuberance of Harvard students, faculty and affiliates who are passionate about the many art forms presented in four rousing days of performances, exhibitions and art-making opportunities. See visual art and opera, dance styles from around the world, many music genres, stand-up and improv comedy, theater, public art, poetry, experimental performances and so much more. 

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The Harvard Muslim American Studies Working Group invites you to join us at the Islam in America Research Symposium at Harvard, designed to showcase work that engages the pasts, presents, and futures of Islam and Muslims in America. (Critical Muslim Studies, Muslim minorities in the West, and related topics may also be included). ...

Speaker: Ingrid Ahlgren,Curator of Oceania, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

As early as the 1700s, the fledgling United States actively explored and exchanged goods with the islands across the great wide Pacific Ocean. New England—and Massachusetts in particular—played an active, varied role in these explorations, which included the China Pacific trade, the whaling industry, the foreign Christian ministries...

Speaker: Michael Homberg
Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Cologne

Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

Abstract:
With the decline of the European overseas empires and the increasing dynamics of a Global Cold War, international...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present "Mecca: The Lived City", a symposium examining the ways in which the city of Mecca is imagined, remembered, represented, and visualized from the perspectives of history, literature, urban planning, and the visual arts.

The symposium begins Thursday, May 2, at 5pm, with a keynote talk by Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University.

The panels on day two (May 3), will run from 8:45 am - 5:00 pm, and will features the following...

Speaker: Javier Garciadiego Dantán,Historian and Author; Professor of History, El Colegio de México, Director, Academia Mexicana de la Historia

A rigged election and a political crisis among competing elites, middle classes, and rural workers: What could go wrong? The Mexican Revolution of 1910 began as a multilocal revolt against the 35-year regime of dictator Porfirio Díaz and evolved into a national revolution and civil war lasting nearly a decade. Javier Garciadiego—a leading historian of Mexico’s revolution—will discuss the precursors, armed struggles, political factions, U.S...

Persian and Persianate Studies presents:
From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

Speaker: Abhishek Kaicker
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard, Society of Fellows

Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/persian-and-persianate-studies

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