In conversation with Kim TallBear, Erica Violet Lee, and Emily Riddle

Introduction by Dr. Nick Estes and Moderated by Dr. Adrienne Keene

Sponsored by: Harvard University Native American Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , Harvard University

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Nina Dubin

This talk explores how, in the wake of the world’s first international financial crisis, Cupid claimed pride of place in French eighteenth-century art—personifying not only the folly of love, but also the forces of inconstancy, mutability and flightiness that were viewed as hallmarks of a modernizing credit economy. 

Presented by the HAA Graduate Student Lecture Series

Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955 as a statement...

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Victor Cha , Senior Advisor and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies; D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government, Georgetown University

Chair:  Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs; cosponsored by the Korea Working Group, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard University Asia Center

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Please join MHAAM on Wednesday, April 11^th for “Death by Contact: Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Epidemics in Early Mexico," with Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Director, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max...

Jaclyn Schultz, University of California at Santa Cruz

Nineteenth-century children rarely had access to money, even when they worked. Yet, several forms of authority instructed children in specific expectations of spending, saving, and giving. This talk explores how and why children were taught to interact with and value financial resources as well as how these lessons were racialized.

Matheus Gato, Sociologist

Bio and Project

The Massacre of the Freedmen: Race, Emancipation, and Republic in 1889 (Maranhão - Brazil)

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Speaker: Nathan Vedal, Visiting Fellow, Center for Humanities and Information, Penn State

Organizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice, Harvard University GSAS Workshop 

Cold War Studies Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Alexandre Kostov, Director, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights

Speaker(s): 

Golfo Alexopoulos, Professor of History, University of South Florida

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Cold War Studies Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Melvyn P. Leffler, Stettinius Professor of History, University of Virigina

Commentary by:
Fredrik Logevall, Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
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Speaker: Timo Schaefer, Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University, Department of History; Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies

Moderator: Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

In the nineteenth century, Mexicans faced the challenge of constructing republican legal institutions in a society shaped by centuries of colonial rule. This talk examines how people attempted to meet that challenge in towns and in hacienda (agricultural estate) settlements. More broadly, it analyzes in what...