A discussion of Walter Johnson's new book, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States.

From Lewis and Clark’s 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. The city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation’s past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black...

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Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk

Song Lihong (Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2020-21)

Chair/discussant: David Stern (Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University)

The late Irene Eber (1929-2019), professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a long-time affiliate of the...

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Join us for the Program in Islamic Law’s Academic Year 2020-2021 Book Talk Webinar Series!

On Tuesday, December 8, Dr. Nathan Spannaus (University of Jyväskylä, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy) will speak on his new book,...

Read more about Dr. Nathan Spannaus Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism

Join us as we explore different ways to study social change. Cluster Chair Michèle Lamont will speak, and also moderate the Q&A session. She will be joined by four members of the Cluster Steering Committee.

Speakers:

Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Department of...

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​Felipe Loureiro, Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

The six members of the ...

Read more about Global History, Globally Seminar Series: "Making the Alliance for Progress for A Few: U.S. Economic Aid to Brazilian States in Cold War Brazil (1961-1964)"

Hatice Yildiz, WIGH Fellow;  Lecturer in Modern Gender History, University of Edinburgh

Graduate Student Commentator: TBA

Faculty Commentator: ...

Read more about The Temporalities of Work: Labor Patterns and Politics in Bombay Cotton Mills, 1875 - 1900