Dacia Maraini, Author

Lauro de Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

https://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/dacia-maraini-author-%E2%80%9Ctranslating-dacia-maraini-panel-discussion-translation%E2%80%9D?admin_panel=1

See the HLS Website for more information.

On February 26, the Supreme Court will hear Oral Argument in Janus v. AFSCME, a case that is widely speculated to imperil fair share fees charged to workers in the public sector who benefit from union representation but are not members. Earlier this year...

Mary D. Lewis, Jan Kubasiewicz and Bettina Burch

For information about the exhibit, see the CES website.

Jewish Cultures and Societies

Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University

Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies seminar, the Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Economic History Workshop

Speaker:

Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

Speaker:

Franziska Seraphim, Associate Professor of History; Director of Asian Studies, Boston College.

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting...

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics

Speaker:

Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Contact:

Isade Salcedo
isalcedo@fas.harvard.edu...

Economic History Workshop

Speaker:
Donna Feir, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.

Contact:
Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

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

Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of...

Politics and Social Change Workshop

Speaker:

Zine Magubane, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Peggy Levitt, Associate. Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.

Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate. Professor of Sociology,...

Please join us on Wednesday, February 14, 12-2 pm for a special lunchtime session of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series.

Arupjyoti Saikia, Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Endowment Chair on Assam History in the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India and...

Professor Jane Kamensky will give this semester's Distinguished Lecture on History and Literature on Thursday, February 8 from 6:00-7:30 pm in the Thompson Room (room 110) in the Barker Center (12 Quincy St.).

Jane Kamensky is Professor of History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for...

The annual Harvard Law School Lecture on Latin American and European Legal History:

Slave Agency in Ancient Greece
 

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hosting Nükhet Varlık of Rutgers University

We've arranged a lunch the following day, Friday, February 16 at noon in SC 359, for any interested grad students to have an informal chat with...

Join the editors and contributors to The China Questions for a book launch at the Harvard Coop’s Event Series.

Many books offer information...

Alexandra Petrova was born in St. Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu, where she wrote a thesis on the prose of Leonid Dobychin. In 1993 she emigrated to Jerusalem, and since 1998 she has lived in Rome. 

She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Point of Detachment [Liniia otryva] (1994), Permit to Live [Vid na zhitel’stvo] (1999) and Only the Trees [Tolko derev’ia] (2008).  She has also written Dolly’s Shepherds [...