The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs

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Read more about HIGHS Seminar: “The Religious Case for Revolution: Global Ecumenism and the Anti-Marcos Movement, 1965-1986”

Speaker: Sam Shuman, Rabin-Shvidler Joint Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Fordham University and Columbia University

Chair: Derek Penslar. William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 

This seminar centers around a 2017 city-branding campaign, “In Antwerp We Speak Diamond! Diamond Capital Since 1447.” Jointly engineered by PR representatives from Antwerp’s diamond...

Read more about "In Antwerp We Speak Diamond" – City Branding & the Specter of Europe's Jewish Merchant

New technologies can renew our capacity to envision and pursue more sustainable, vibrant, and democratic cities. At the same time, many of our current challenges result from unintended consequences of innovations once hailed as solutions. This event aims to address how urbanists today should make sense of the potentials and limits of computational approaches. Instead of prepared remarks, two panelists will respond to questions pre-submitted by the audience at registration.

Speakers will respond to questions or comments submitted in advance. Please include yours with your...

Read more about Street Smarts + Smart Cities: A Conversation about Urban Life and Data Science

HMUI Urban Conversations aim to pair visiting scholars with Harvard faculty or graduate students as respondents. Our goal is to create a space for scholars to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community of urbanists.

 

Speaker: Dan McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester

Respondent: ...

Read more about Mapping the Megacity: Understanding Urban Change in São Paulo through Historical GIS

“'Survival in an Age of Revolution': Charles Malik, Imperial Sovereignty, and Global Counterrevolution"
Nate George, Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program.

Grad Student Commentator: Rustam Khan, PhD Candidate in History...

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“Frontier Moves: A Global History of Emerging Markets”
Ravinder Kaur, WIGH Fellow 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Faculty Commentator: Sophus Reinert, Professor of Business...

Read more about Frontier Moves: A Global History of Emerging Markets

Speaker: Simon Newman (University of Wisconsin)

To register for the event, please click here.

Read more about History Matters: British Universities, Slavery, and the Politics of National Memory

Weatherhead Forum with Weatherhead Initiative on Global History

Moritz von Brescius, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies and affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for Global Transformation/Initiative for Global History (WIGH) Author of German Science in the Age of Empire (2020). Current work on rubber plantation production in Southeast Asia.

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Read more about "Unequal Encounters: A Recurrent Dynamic of Global History"

Art historian, curator, and visiting Scholar Cecilia Fajardo-Hill will present and discuss sections of her upcoming book on Decolonial Art History in Latin American and Latinx Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries on Monday, March 28, 2022, from 4:30-6:00pm.  The event, "Book Presentation: Between Embodiments and Weaving in Futuro Anterior,"  will be co-moderated by AAAS Professor Alejandro de la Fuente ... Read more about Book Presentation: Between Embodiments and Weaving in Futuro Anterior

This event is virtual and will take place in both English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation. To register, click here.

Speakers: Julissa Mantilla Falcón, President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Jamil Chade, Journalist
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Read more about The World is Watching: Democracy and Human Rights in Brazil’s 2022 Elections

Please note: this talk is limited to the Harvard Community

On Wednesday, March 23^rd at 3 pm in Boylston 103 and on Zoom (details below), Professor Bauer will run a masterclass, "Ritualized Production and Cultivated Distinctions on the Early Deccan: Re-Centering Perspectives of Early Historic (ca. 500 BCE – CE 500) Indian Ocean Trade".

Talk Abstract:

"This lecture reviews recent archaeological evidence from the interior Deccan region of southern India to address the...

Read more about "Ritualized Production and Cultivated Distinctions on the Early Deccan: Re-Centering Perspectives of Early Historic (ca. 500 BCE – CE 500) Indian Ocean Trade"

On Tuesday, March 22^nd at 6 pm in Sever 113 and on Zoom (details below), Professor Bauer will deliver a lecture, "Archives, Archaeology, and the Anthropocene: Reconciling Disparate Epistemic Foundations in a Time of Precarity". 

Talk abstract:
"In this presentation I critically engage R.G. Collingwood’s provocation that “archaeology is the methodology of history.” In distinction from typical definitions of “text-aided archaeology,” which imply the use of documentary...

Read more about "Archives, Archaeology, and the Anthropocene: Reconciling Disparate Epistemic Foundations in a Time of Precarity"

Please note this event is limited to the Harvard Community. 

Lambda and the Harvard Department of History are excited to host a book talk on Professor Samuel Clowes Huneke's new book, "States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany."

Speaker: Prof. Samuel Clowes Huneke, George Mason University

STATES OF LIBERATION traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from...

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Please join us for a conversation with the Harvard community on the ongoing war in Ukraine. Experts from Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies will present their perspectives, provide up-to-date understanding on the state of the conflict, and engage in Q&A and conversation with the audience.

Kindly register in advance. The...

Read more about The War in Ukraine: A Community Conversation

This event is virtual, to register click here.
 

Speaker: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University

 

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Read more about Mexico Seminar: La Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and Their New Geographies of Mestizaje in the US