Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Commentator: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Mitchell Bacci, PhD Candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring...

Christy Thornton, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Commentator: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Angelica Marquez-Osuna, PhD Candidate in the History of Science, Harvard University

This graduate...

"The Everyday Politics of Imperial Sovereignty: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines"
Justin Jackson, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Assistant Professor of History, Bard College at Simon’s Rock

Commentators:
Omar Gueye, Professor of History, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Roberto Saba, 2017-2018 Hench Postdoctoral Fellow, American Antiquarian Society

Moderators:
Professors Sven Beckert, Charles S. Maier...

“The Road to the Alt Right: How Race and Culture Split the Neoliberal Movement”
Quinn Slobodian, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; ACLS Burkhardt Fellow; Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College

Commentator: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Marino Felipe Auffant, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to...

Theresa Singleton, Syracuse University

The slave runaway (maroon) landscape was a vast area extending from plantations to distanced hinterlands runaways moved through, lived, and interacted with slave, Amerindian, and non-slaveholding Spanish communities with whom they established alliances, social networks, and trade relationships. I discuss my ongoing research aimed toward locating slave runaway sites in southwestern Dominican Republic beginning with the first recorded African slave revolt in 1521 until the abolition of slavery in 1822. Although the ephemeral...

PLEASE RSVP: info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu

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Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos

OPEN HOUSE – 5^TH ANNIVERSARY...

The conference, which will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23, is entitled “Populist Plutocrats: Lessons from Around the World.” The conference theme will emphasize what Americans might learn about the current political situation here from other countries (such as Italy, Thailand, the Philippines, Peru, and South Africa); speakers include leading scholars, politicians, journalists and activists from around the world (including, among others, Abhisit Vejjajiva, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, and Jose Ugaz, the Chair of Transparency International who...

Award-winning historian Nancy MacLean will talk about her new and provocative book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. The book connects the mid-twentieth-century backlash to the New Deal and school desegregation and the anti-democratic policies favored by many of today's economic and political elites.

Fall...

we begin the formal observance of our Bicentennial by remembering and honoring the enslaved whose labor created wealth that made possible the founding of Harvard Law School. Please join President Drew Faust, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor Janet Halley, and me at the Law School’s Crossroads at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday for the dedication of a memorial in their honor. The dedication immediately follows a talk and panel discussion open to all members of the Harvard Law School community on The History of Harvard Law School (Milstein West, 5 p.m.)....

Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History...