The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Department of History invite you to attend an upcoming lecture with Dr. Abigail Balbale, Assistant Professor of Islamic History in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, entitled Contesting the Caliphate: Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West. Please see the attached flyer.

In the twelfth century, as Iberian Christian kingdoms fought to expand into the peninsula’s Muslim territories and the Almohad caliphate conquered much of...

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What is the impact and legacy of the Civil War and U.S. military expansion on Black and Trans soldiers like Cathay Williams? Historian Kris Klein Hernandez focuses on the ways conscripts, contra­bands and recruits embodied, played with and resisted the roles demanded of them in the border­lands of this 19th century American empire. 

Please not that the time on the flyer is not ET time. The talk will take place 1:30pm ET time.

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Speaker's Bio:
Aniket De is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Harvard University, and the author of “The Boundary of Laughter: Popular performances across Borders in South Asia” (Oxford, 2021). 

Book Abstract:
Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. The author traces the making of the popular theater form called Gambhira by Hindu and Muslim peasants and laborers in colonial Bengal and explores the fate of the...

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This is an incorecct listing for an event that took place in the past. Please disregard this posting. 

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Hosted by the Harvard Environmental History Working Group

Alyssa Battistoni (Harvard University) and Neil M. Maher (New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark) 

For Zoom access information, please email Joyce Chaplin: ...

Read more about (Incorrect date - see posting for details) )Green New Deals: Past and Future 

Speaker: Chana Lee (University of Georgia)

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February 17, 2022, 12 noon to 1.15 pm.
Book Talk: The Fractured Himalaya

Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China
Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University
Online, via Zoom. Register here: ...

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The Center for History and Economics invites you to mark the publication of Padraic X. Scanlan’s new book, Slave Empire: How Slavery...

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In person location: CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K354 and via Zoom

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"Light Water Capitalism: Empires of Nuclear Things"
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Read more about HIGHS Seminar: "The Boundaries of the System: Small Territories, 'Primitive' Peoples, and the Limits of Self-determination after 1945"

Charles Warren Workshop on Slavery and the Universities

From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: Imprints of Racial Slavery and Higher Learning in the (Global) South

Zoom registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItc-uvpz8oE9PHgEj3dOtXkx6pxX13HXCz

The second installment in their winter series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Anita Hill, author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 2021). Her reading will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds... Read more about Book Talk With Anita Hill

“Modern Memories: The Public History of Industrial Heritage in Japan”
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: Jaewoong Jeon, WIGH Postdoctoral...

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The Countway Longwood Author Series hosts AAAS Professor Jarvis Givens in conversation with AAAS Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the immediate past president of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH).  The conversation will focus on Carter G.... Read more about Fugitive Pedagogy - Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

AAAS Professor Vincent Brown will give a talk, 'Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War,' in a virtual colloquium, part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series.  For more information and registration visit the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research's ... Read more about W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series, W/ Vince Brown