The Islamic Africa Seminar will be discussing the book Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria and the introduction of Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks. Please join us for a fruitful discussion on Muslim intermediaries in Colonial Africa. All disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. Lunch will be served. Please email Iman Mohamed (imm862@g.harvard.edu) to RSVP, for...

 Jeffrey Miller (English, Montclair State University)

Sponsored by the Book History Seminar

Rachel Buurma, Swarthmore College

Petra McGillen, Dartmouth College

Simon Reader, City University of New York

The Novel and its Working Methods: A Workshop

Abstracts

Rachel Buurma (English, Swarthmore College)
"The Preparation of the Victorian Novel"

What might we gain from thinking about the composition of novels and the criticism of them as more similar than different? Following Roland Barthes’s “The Preparation of the Novel,” I ask how understanding...

Join us for an evening discussion on the life and career of Linda Francis James Benitt, the first female graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan...

Free Public Lecture

Miroslav Bárta, Professor, Czech Institute of Egyptology

Abusir, the “Place of Osiris,” is a necropolis (burial site) near the Old Kingdom’s city of Memphis, known for its pyramids and sun temples. In this lecture, Miroslav Bárta will...

Salima Ikram, Visiting Professor, Yale University; Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology, The American University in Cairo

The relationship between humans and animals is complex, with mutual dependencies that are practical,...

Free Public Lecture

Ramadan B. Hussein, Director, Saqqara Saite Tombs Project, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), University of Tübingen, Germany

The pyramids and tombs of Saqqara served as the...

Free Public Lecture

Ira Jacknis, Research Anthropologist, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the first American fair to feature...

Free Public Lecture

Robert Baron, Folk Arts Program Director, New York State Council on the Arts

Pioneering Peabody anthropologist Alice Fletcher researched and advocated for Native Americans at a time of massive...

Free Public Lecture

Barbara Fash, Director, Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program and the Gordon R. Willey Laboratory for Mesoamerican Studies, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

The Peabody Museum has conducted...

Special Event

Remember and celebrate your departed loved ones at this year’s Día de los Muertos altar, savor traditional Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto, and enjoy a presentation by Harvard Professor Davíd Carrasco as part of this festive evening...

Free Public Lecture

Lea S. McChesney, Curator of Ethnology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, The University of New Mexico

Harvard’s Peabody Museum houses an extraordinary collection of historic Hopi pottery (c. 1400–1900 CE), collected in...

Special Event (all ages)

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes visit to a major museum lab that helps archaeologists identify excavated animal bones. Are the bones from an ancient human occupation site or last year’s picnic? Researchers will demonstrate techniques using skeletons of modern animals. This is a popular event for school-age children. If you have found a bone in your backyard, bring it with you and have it identified!

Regular museum admission rates apply.

Free Public Lecture

Jeffrey Quilter, William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Senior Lecturer on Anthropology, Harvard University

Free Public Lecture

Ulrike Steinert, Research Associate, Babylonian Medicine, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

The human body has not changed significantly during recorded history–we share sensory faculties...