Abodes of Alien Ancestors: Buddhist Geography and Genealogy in 18th Century Beijing

Speaker: Wen-shing Chou, Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Hunter College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

The Economics of Buddhist Merit: Monastic Sharecropping in Qing China's Inner Asia in the Eighteenth Century

Speaker: Lan Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Why Pots (Don't) Matter: Complexity in Bronze Age Eurasia

Speaker: Paula Dupuy, Assistant Professor of Anthropoogy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Dangling Threads to Examine the Channels: Tales of Pulse Diagnosis in Tibetan and Chinese Literature

Speaker: William McGrath, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis

Speaker: Arienne Dwyer, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Indigenous Health in Settler Colonial Societies: Histories of Neglect and Survival in the Twentieth Century

Speaker: Maria K. John, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Presented by the Harvard University Mahindra Center

Getting from the Pleistocene to the Present in the American Southeast: What Is and What Still Could Be

Speaker: Shane Miller, Mississippi State University

Presented by the Harvard University Mahindra Center

Mapping Morrill: How Indian Country Funded America’s Land Grant Universities
Speakers:
Bobby Lee, Cambridge University
Tristan Ahtone, High Country News

Presented by the Harvard University Mahindra Center

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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. 

To see the event page for more details,...