Originally from France, a night of philosophy and ideas is a marathon of philosophical debate, performances, readings, and music happening overnight.

Boston’s first Night of Philosophy & Ideas at Harvard University will bring together academics from various disciplines, as well as artists, activists, and public intellectuals to address a variety of timely questions around this year’s central theme: Being Alive. What is the good life? What does life mean for us but also for other living creatures? What do we owe to each other? How have recent technological changes affected...

Speaker: Arjen Bakker (University of Oxford, Oriel College)

Dr. Bakker will speak about concepts of time that emerge as expressions of divine thinking and mystery in ancient Jewish texts. Through liturgical activity and the division of time in calendar and chronology these texts reveal the ambition to participate in heavenly structures and divine knowledge. Across the late books of the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls we can see how these concepts played an important role in interpretation, rewriting, collecting and composing new works. This casts light on an...

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) is pleased to present its 23rd Annual Conference. Titled "Life on the Edge," the Conference will be held at the CGIS South Building (Harvard Campus) from February 8th to 9th.

This year's Conference will serve as a platform for graduate students from across the world to present their latest research findings and explore the borders and boundaries that shape East Asia. Featuring papers with topics ranging from Rome to rap music and panels organized by themes such as geopolitics and cinema, we...

This event will highlight the wide-ranging impact of Lorgia García-Peña's scholarship, particularly her acclaimed 2016 book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction. Distinguished speakers will reflect on the significance of her work for multiple fields.

Full schedule and poster

Speaker: Takeo Rivera (Boston University)
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies” 
 

Please contact the Charles Warren Center at the following email to request the workshop paper: cwc@fas.harvard.edu

With the generous support of the Harvard University History of Art and Architecture department, the Graduate Student Lecture Series Committee is excited to announce that on December 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the Sackler Auditorium, Professor Nicola Suthor will present her newest project, 'Macchia as Memory Function: Thought Processes in Renaissance Sketches.'

This is the first event in this year's New Directions in Art History: Lectures in the...

Speaker: Marcelo Ferraro, ALARI Visiting Fellow

Lecture by Chanan Tigay, 2019-2020 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer who has covered the Middle East, 9/11, and the United Nations for such outlets as AFP, the Atlantic, GQ, and the New Yorker. He is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, a member of the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute, and the recipient...

Speaker: Vlad Sirbu
(University of California, Riverside, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages)

Presented by The GSAS Germanic Circle

"Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet"

Past and Present of Southeast Asia Research Workshop

Prof. Nancy K. Florida (University of Michigan)

ABSTRACT 
Shortly before his death in December 1873, the renowned Javanese court poet R. Ng. Ronggawarsita composed a short work of social criticism and Islamic ethics that is among the most celebrated of Javanese literary texts. Serat Kalatidha (The Time of Darkness) reflects upon the avenues that remain open to the ethical subject in what...

American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context

Graduate Student Panel, 11:00–1:00

Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire 2:00–3:30...

Speaker: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto

Abstract:

The pseudo-Aristotelian Politics, known in Arabic as Sirr al-asrar ( secret of secrets) and in its medieval Latin translations as Secretum secretorum, purports to be Aristotle’s...

Speaker: Alan McPherson, Professor of History, Temple University
Historian Alan McPherson of Temple University will discuss his new book about the 1976 assassination of Chilean Orlando Letelier and U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt, which took two decades to prosecute, transformed human rights, democracy, and counterterrorism in the United States and Chile, and helped end the Pinochet regime.

Alan McPherson is Freaney Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD) at Temple University. He is the author and editor...

Speaker: Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Chaired by: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.

The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt

Jennifer L. Derr
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history, environmental history, history of science, history of medicine, and critical geography. Derr received...