San Charles Haddad
Author, consultant

Over eighty years of international turmoil, discriminatory agendas, and vicious acts of violence.… this is the haunting Olympic history of Israel and Palestine. Three people living in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem embark on distinct journeys that converge at “the file”; their efforts to admit Palestine to the Olympics in the early twentieth century. Their pivotal roles in history have been purposely omitted from official record, kept secret, or forgotten. Why? Because of the “Nazi Olympics” in 1936 in Berlin. And because of the...

Read more about The File: Origins of the Munich Massacre

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: chaplin [at] fas.harvard.edu

 

Sohaib Baig surveys the dynamic histories of the Hanafi school (madhhab) and Sunni legal pluralism in the Indian Ocean in the early modern and modern periods. He explores how Hanafi interplay with other Sunni schools and traditions across multiple empires produced major transformations as Indian Hanafis reformulated foundational concepts concerning legal authority, including independent reasoning (ijtihād) and legal conformity (taqlīd). This...

Read more about Towards a Transregional History of Sunni Legal Pluralism: Indian Hanafis in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1926

A Virtual Symposium
to launch the website of
The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe
(DALME)

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Read more about HIGHS Seminar: "Suspended Sovereignty in Small Places" 

Paul Cheney, Professor of European History, University of Chicago

Graduate Student Commentator: Annie Boniface, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Faculty Commentator: John Shovlin, Associate Professor of History, NYU

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Read more about History of Global Capitalism Seminar: Paul Cheney, "István Hont, the Cosmopolitan Theory of Commercial Globalization, and Twenty-First Century Capitalism"

"Inheriting the Earth: Trusteeship, Civilization Policy, and Native Economies"
Emilie Connolly, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University

Graduate Student Commentator: Eve O'Connor, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University

Faculty commentator: Mandy Izadi, WIGH

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Read more about History of Global Capitalism Seminar: Emilie Connolly (Brandeis), "Inheriting the Earth: Trusteeship, Civilization Policy, and Native Economies"

Speaker: Andrew Liu, Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University

Graduate Student Commentator: Ge Zhou

Faculty Commentator: Hatice Yildiz, WIGH Fellow; Lecturer in Modern Gender History, University of Edinburgh

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Read more about History of Global Capitalism Seminar: Andrew Liu (Villanova), “Hong Kong and the Neoliberal World Economy”

 

"The Labyrinth of Capital: Reading the History of Capitalism through Jute and Rubber"
Jairus Banaji, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London

Graduate Student Commentator: Marten Dondorp, PhD Candidate, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Faculty Commentator: Tariq Omar Ali,...

Read more about History of Global Capitalism Seminar; Jairus Banaji, "The Labyrinth of Capital: Reading the History of Capitalism through Jute and Rubber"

"Slaving and Abolitionism in the Age of Revolutions"
Mary E. Hicks, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College

Graduate Student Commentator: William Conroy, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Faculty Commentator: Seth Rockman, Associate Professor of...

Read more about History of Global Capitalism Seminar: Mary Hicks (Amherst), "Slaving and Abolitionism in the Age of Revolutions"

"Africa and the Global History of Capitalism: Repairing a History of Omission"
Toby Green, Senior Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture, Kings College London

Graduate Student Commentator: Oliver Lazarus, PhD Candidate, History of Science, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: James McCann, Professor of...

Read more about History of Global Capitalism Seminar: Toby Green, "Africa and the Global History of Capitalism: Repairing a History of Omission"

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Read more about Black Voters Matter: A Post-Election Conversation

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Religion and Public Life in North America, 16^th Century to the Present”

Speaker: Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University)

 

For the workshop paper, and the password to access the paper, please contact cwc@fas.harvard.edu.

 

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Read more about “Religion and American Foreign Relations in the 19th Century”, Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University)

Title: "The Origins of Religious (Un)settlement: Missionary Encounters, Military Engagements, and Hmong Refugee Migration in Asia"

Speaker: Melissa Borja, University of Michigan

For the workshop paper, and the password to access the paper, please contact cwc@fas.harvard.edu.

Zoom link: https...

Read more about "The Origins of Religious (Un)settlement: Missionary Encounters, Military Engagements, and Hmong Refugee Migration in Asia"

Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University), "A Rosetta Stone of World Philology: the 1546 Constantinople Polyglot Bible and its European Readers." Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History. Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoceuppjMiHtJ2yhjHtle00fmIMcOlCwi3 Read more about (Early Modern Workshop) "A Rosetta Stone of World Philology: the 1546 Constantinople Polyglot Bible and its European Readers."