New Directions in European History Study Group

SPEAKER
Quinn Slobodian
Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

The intellectual history of neoliberalism is often told as one of conviction, consistency and coherence with notes of inevitability. As neoliberalism shows its cracks, it is a good time to revisit the problems that have dogged the leading thinkers of the circle around F. A. Hayek for the last seven decades. Some problems are predictable: securing legitimacy in the face of economic...

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

SPEAKER
Geraldine Gudefin
Ph.D candidate in History, Brandeis University

In Europe and the United States, discussions of Sharia law have become central to the current debates about Muslim integration. Although these debates are often presented as unprecedented, at the turn of the twentieth century the civil legal systems of Western Europe and the United States grappled considerably with the notion of legal pluralism, the nature of the relationship between religion and the state, and the legal status of...

The Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

SPEAKER

Dani Rodrik

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Discussant:

• Bart Bonikowski – Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty

Populism may seem like it has come...

Dear Students, Colleagues, & Friends: 

Please join us today, May 22nd from 4:15–5:30 PM at the Ash Center, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street, for a discussion on the...

The Archives for Women in Medicine and the Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation present:

Gender and Risk Perception in the Development of Oral Contraceptives, 1940-1968

2016-2017 Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine Fellowship Lecture

Kate Grauvogel:  2016-2017 Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine Fellow, Doctoral student in the History...

...

Houghton Library staff celebrate the library’s 75th anniversary with an open-house-inspired showcase of its outstanding collections.

Fifty archivists, conservators, curators, librarians, specialists, and student workers who make up “Team Houghton” share memorable items encountered during careers at the library that range from four months to over 40 years. Gained through providing access to over 600,000 printed books and six miles of manuscript and archival materials that comprise the Houghton collection, the staff’s encyclopedic knowledge of the library comes to the fore in...

Nana Ariel, Harvard University

Elizabeth Willson Gordon, The King’s University

John Lurz, Tufts University

Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Harvard University

Michelle Alexis Taylor, Harvard University

This event is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP to nana_ariel@fas.harvard.edu.

For more information, visit the event website: ...

Speaker(s): 

Petur Hristov, Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Varna Free University (Bulgaria)
Joshua Rubenstein, Associate Director, Major Gifts, Harvard Law School; Center Associate, Davis Center
Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Center Associate, Davis Center
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Speaker(s): 

Sergei Davidis, Board Member and Manager of Political Prisoner Assistance Project, Human Rights Center "Memorial" (Russian Federation)
Ekaterina Petrikevich, International Human Rights Consultant, Human Rights Center "Memorial"

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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

Speaker(s): 

Sergei Davidis, Board Member and Manager of Political Prisoner Assistance Project, Human Rights Center "Memorial" (Russian Federation)

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Jocelyne Cesari
Professor of Religion and Politics, Department of Theology and Religion, Director of Research, Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham

Jocelyne Cesari is Professor of Religion and Politics, and Director of the Cadbury Centre at the University of Birmingham. She is also Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center where she directs the ‘Islam in World Politics’ program....

3D Lecture and Book Signing 

The Marshall family, which filmed and studied the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, created one of the most significant visual anthropology projects of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the Peabody Museum, the Marshalls made eight trips to Namibia (then South West Africa) in the 1950s to document some of the world’s last surviving self-sufficient hunter-gatherers, the Ju/’hoansi and G/wi people (earlier known pejoratively as “Bushmen” and later as the !Kung and the San). Using the Marshall family’s collection of stereo...