In case of rain: we will meet at Boylston Hall, 4th floor.

This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of Maria Mercè Marçal, and recognize three other major writers of literary classics who died on or around April 23, Saint George's Day: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) and Josep Pla (1897-1981)....

The Department of Comparative Literature cordially invites you to

The second annual Svetlana Boym Memorial Lecture by:

Susan Rubin Suleiman (Harvard University, C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France & Research Professor of Comparative Literature)

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Philippe-Alain Michaud, Centre Pompidou, Harvard VES

(in French and open to the public)

In conversation with Cécile Guédon, Comparative Literature, Harvard

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Italian Section

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Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian Section-In English and open to the public

https://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/alice-ensabella-cima-futurists-paris?admin_panel=1

Questions to ...

Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University

What is the origin of the world atlas as we know it today? And why should this genealogy matter to us now? This talk focuses on the small corpus of surviving Portuguese portolan-style manuscript “universal atlases” from the second half of the sixteenth century, which offer an alternate history for the atlas in modernity. Rather than deriving from such printed compilations as Abraham Ortelius’...

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture  at Harvard University

Neşe Gurallar

Professor, Department...

AG Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge

American Empire (...

Presentations by Graduate Students

"Black Market Empire: American Cigarettes and the Global Black Market after World War II"
Jesus Solis, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

"World Plans: Beaux-Arts Design as Cultural Internationalism, c.1900-1940"
David Sadighian, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

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Lunch will be provided

Women’s Studies in Religion Program

Laura R. Prieto, PhD (Simmons College)

Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies and American Religious History

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FIRST EVENT

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Societies and Cultures and the Rethinking Translation Seminars at the Mahindra Humanities Center

Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, specializing in Yiddish, and the Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the Alan M. Stroock Fellow, Harvard...

Speaker: Maya Stiller Fellow, Korea Institute; ACLS/The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

Light refreshments provided.

RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)

Nicole Eaton, Assistant Professor of History, Boston College

The Nazi German city of Königsberg’s transformation into Soviet Russian Kaliningrad offers a peculiar case of Sovietization in the immediate postwar. For three years, new Soviet settlers lived together with Königsberg’s remaining German civilians, as the new Soviet government in Kaliningrad attempted to figure out what it meant for a formerly fascist city—and its population—to become Soviet. By following three phases of...

Copies of The Kremlinologist will be available for sale by the Harvard COOP.

Speaker(s): 

Jenny Thompson, Co-...

Featuring Elizabeth Acevedo, Peggy Robles-Alvarado with Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges!

For more information, please contact: mcastillo@fas.harvard.edu.