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...

Naomi Lamoreaux
Yale University

The CMES Director's Series and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations present

Prashant Keshavmurthy
Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies, McGill University

Sa'...

CMES is pleased to present the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series speaker

Nasser Rabbat

Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

Please note the lecture's new time: 5:00-7:00 pm

Light has often been deployed as a transcendental element in Islamic architecture. For more than fifteen centuries, architects all over the Islamic World have...

The CMES Director's Series presents

Francesca Maria Corrao
Professor of Arabic Language and Culture, Department of Political Science, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Rome

Francesca Maria Corrao is Professor of Arabic...

The CES Colonial Encounters Working Group and CMES present

Allison Hartnett
Pre-doctoral research fellow, Middle East Inititiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; DPhil candidate, University of Oxford

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