"Why Europe?: The Church, Kin-Networks and Institutional Development"

Speaker:

Jonathan Schulz, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
Melissa Dell,...

Canada Program Special Event

"'For this they fight': Canadians in the Spanish Civil War"

Speaker:

Michael Petrou, 2018 Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chair:

Mireille Paquet, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. ...

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

"'Said Negro has been guilty of theft and many misdemeanors': Fugitive Slave Advertisements as Imperial Infrastructure in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Canada and Jamaica"

Speaker:

Charmaine A. Nelson, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada...

Dr. Gideon Avni,
Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University

Included will be a discussion on projects of OSL dating fields, the early Islamic agricultural estates, the mechanism of introduction and diffusion of qanats in the Near East and beyond (north Africa, Iran and the east), in relation to the main issues raised by Andrew Watson’s pioneering research.

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Join the Harvard GSAS Science Policy Group and the Harvard Office of Career Services for a panel full of experts in science policy. Each panelist will share their experience transitioning from a science PhD to alternative careers, how they successfully obtained competitive science policy fellowships, and their experiences in Washington, D.C. We will have a moderator ask a few opening questions to the panel of former AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows and White House Fellow, then we will open it up for Q&A with the audience.

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Join Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Jewish Studies
as we bring playwright and actor, Ibrahim Miari

in a performance of

In Between

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Law and Colonialism: Legal Debates in the British Empire

WCC 3015, Harvard Law School

The relationship between law and empire has been a fraught one and the subject of intense academic scrutiny. In this workshop, we will explore various strands in the literature by examining the role of law in the context of the British Empire. Was law “the state’s emissary,” a tool of resistance or something more complicated altogether? We...

Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University

Commentator: Erez Manela, Professor of History, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Bohao Wu, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover...

Speaker: John Tutino, Professor of History and International Affairs; Director, Americas Initiative, Georgetown University

Commentator: Christy Thornton, Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH
Graduate Student Commentator: Graduate Student Commentator: David Sadighian, PhD Candidate, History of...

Judith Froehlich, Lecturer, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH

Commentator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Jesus Solis, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global...

Tariq Omar Ali, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Commentator: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Graduate-student commentator: Mou Banerjee, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a...

Pepijn Brandon, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands, WIGH Fellow

Commentator: Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard University
Graduate-student commentator: TBA

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950A, Approaches to Global History, and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to...

“The Rise and Fall of the American Presidency in Historical Perspective”

Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin

Chair: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

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The Harvard Classics Department and the GSAS research workshop Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice are sponsoring a talk on Tuesday, October 24, 4:30–6:00 in Emerson 101, by Professor John Peter Oleson. The title of the talk, which focuses on the technology of navigation in the ancient Mediterranean, is ‘Herodotus, Aristotle and Sounding Weights: The Deep Sea as a Frontier in the Hellenistic and Roman World.’

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