SPEAKER

Gil Rubin

Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

During the first years of the Second World War, before knowledge of the extermination of Jews had...

Read more about CES: Expelling the Jews: Wartime Plans to Expel Jews from Eastern Europe after the Second World War

Speaker:

Simon Levis Sullam
Associate Professor of Modern History, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice

The talk addresses the role of ordinary Italians in the Holocaust. Contrary to commonly held conceptions, almost half of the about 8,000 Jews arrested in Italy and deported mostly to Auschwitz, in 1943-45, were arrested by Italians. Mussolini had paved the ground for this with anti-Jewish propaganda and persecution since the...

Read more about CES: The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

Speaker:
Dariusz Stola

Director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, has been considered one of the best examples of progress in Polish-Jewish...

Read more about CES: Polish Historical Politics and the Future of POLIN (Museum of the history of Polish Jews)

For more information see: https://africa.harvard.edu/event/african-festival-boston-0 Read more about Center for African Studies: African Festival of Boston

For updated information please see: https://africa.harvard.edu/event/public-lecture-data-revolution-african-economic-history-boston

The Marxist struggle reaches outer space in this fanciful Russian science fiction film from the silent period. Los (Nikolai Tsereteli) is an engineer who dreams of traveling to other worlds and imagines that a...

Read more about Davis Center: Film Screening of "Aelita"

Yulia Latynina, Columnist for Ekho Moskvy, Novaya Gazeta, and The Moscow Times

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Elizabeth Lord, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

This talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment, see how they spatialize China, and examine their assumptions and political implications. This talk argues that the environment increasingly serves as a new platform to ‘re-orientalize’ China, or construct China as an environmental ‘other,’ by those outside the country.

Source:...

Read more about Fairbank Center: From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment

On Radcliffe Day 2018, Friday, May 25, we will award the Radcliffe Medal to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As an attorney, a first lady, a senator, a secretary of state, and the first woman nominated by a major party for the US presidency, Secretary Clinton has worked tirelessly over...

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Series:Project on Managing the Atom

Speaker: Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, Research Fellow with the Iran Project and Project on Managing the Atom

During this seminar, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh will examine historical trends in Iran's nuclear-decision making and discuss the role of U.S. foreign policy in shaping such decision-making.  This event will take place following the May 12th deadline for the United States to renew or not renew waivers related to U....

Read more about Belfer Center: Iran's Nuclear Decision-Making: Historical Trends and the Role of U.S. Policy

Fellows Seminar:

 

Speaker(s): 

Courtney Doucette, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

 

Fellows Seminar

 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354

The aim of this project is to look at how the image of Europe and the U.S. has changed in Russia’s official discourse, namely – Presidential speeches in the period of 2000-2018. The presentation will focus on the theoretical part of the research.

The 2017–2018 Fellows Seminar is coordinated by Professors Stephanie Sandler and ...

Read more about Davis Center: The Changing Image of Europe and the U.S. in Russian Political Discourse

International Security Brown Bag Seminar

Frank O'Donnell, Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

 

See also: Asia Center

Speaker: Dr. Paulo Lotufo, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical and Epidemiologic Research at the University of São Paulo and a Lown Scholar at HSPH