The Harvard Radcliffe Institute hosts a book talk with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.  The event will feature Dean Brown-Nagin reading from her recent book, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022) and include a discussion and Q&A with AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.  The event is free and open to the public with ... Read more about Book Talk w/Tomiko Brown-Nagin

 

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

Speaker: Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge
Comment: Yi Ning Chang, Harvard University

This session will take place remotely, using Zoom.
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"Global Rubber and the Temporalities of Ecological Imperialism"
Moritz von Brescius, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Lecturer, University of Bern

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"Empire of Poverty: The Poverty Politics of the Spanish Empire"   
Julia McClure, Lecturer in Late Medieval/Early Modern Global History, University of Glasgow

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Title: An Alternative History of Slavery and Universities: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Higher Learning

Speaker: Michael Jirik (Carleton College)

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conversation moderated by Cemal Kafadar with Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

Lauren Stokes is an Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University, where she teaches classes on German history and migration history. Her book Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Reunification in the Federal Republic of Germany...

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"To Burn a Fireproof Building: Race and Risk in the 1970s Bronx"

Speaker: Bench Ansfield, American Democracy Fellow at Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University 

Respondent: Jacob Anbinder,  PhD candidate in American History at Harvard University 

Chair: ...

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Seminar on Academic Knowledge:
Past and Future European Knowledge in Indian Tongues: Translating Political Economy in Colonial Delhi, c. 1840

Speaker:
Osama Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, History and Classics Department, Providence College

Discussant
Gili Kliger, Ph.D. Student in History & Teaching Fellow in Social Studies, Harvard University ; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda...

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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar
Jewish Politics Between Minorityhood and Triage in Interwar Poland

Speaker: Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College, University of Chicago
Chair: Derek J. Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar
Jewish Politics Between Minorityhood and Triage in Interwar Poland

Speaker: Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College, University of Chicago
Chair: Derek J. Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University

The mid-1920s brought stability to Poland and sped the assimilation of its three million Jews. But already in...

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Speaker: Alexis Broderick (University of New Hampshire)

Title: "The Literal Repulsiveness of Nature”: Agassiz, Race Pictures, and the Aftermath of Slavery  

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Speaker: Irene Soto Marín (University of Michigan)

Title: "The Monetary Supply of Late Roman Egypt: Global and Local Sources"

Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley. He has been, among other things, an NEH Fellow (twice), a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, a holder of the Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin and a Ford Foundation Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006...

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Title: "Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance"

Speaker: Jamie Martin, Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University

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