The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Diana Schaub, "Lincoln on Discoveries and Inventions."

Diana Schaub is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland. Schaub received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and American political thought. She is the co-editor of What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in...

The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Paul Hollander, "Dictators, Intellectuals, and the Spiritual Problems of Modernity."

Paul Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Born in Hungary, he fled to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was put down by...

The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Jill Lepore, "Re-reading Federalist No. 1."

 Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.  She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of many award-winning books and is currently writing a history of the United States. Jill Lepore: “The...

Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities
Queen Mary University of London

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History and the Political Theory Colloquium

LANGUAGE CONTACT IN CENTRAL ASIA

Adam McCollum, University of Notre Dame

A workshop for students offering the opportunity for a broad look at the linguistically diverse textual witness to life on the Silk Road(s), or Central Asia, during the 9th–13th centuries. Registration is required. Registration closes September 27.

Additional information and registration at...

The Department of Hispanic Studies invites you to a talk by Department undergrad alum Patricia Manning, University of Kansas. This will be held on Monday 25th September @ 6:00pm, Music Room, 84 Prospect Street, Rochambeau House.

Title:

Commodification and (the) Capital: Madrid and Materiality in Editions of María de Zayas

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"Between Corporation and State: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century."

Maryam Patton : "Copernicus in Istanbul: Transmission and Translation in the 17th Century"

PLEASE NOTE, THE TIME IS 4PM, NOT 12PM. 

Please join the Early Science Working Group for a special event: a presentation by Edna Bonhomme, on Tuesday October 24th, from 4-6 pm, in Science Center 469. This talk will be cohosted by the Early Modern Workshop. Refreshments will be served.

Additionally, we are hosting a coffee hour with Edna on Wednesday morning, 10 - 11 am October 25th, at Science Center 359. All folks interested in a chance to speak...

What is Death? Xuanzang on the Nature of Mortality

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