Join us Today at 6:00pm in Room 110, Barker Center for Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University, on Theodor Adorno. We encourage attendees to read Theodor Adorno's 1969 essay "Resignation" in advance of this event.

The Master Class 1968 series features close readings of key texts that shaped the global protests and uprisings on the centennial of that pivotal year.

Free and open to the public; seating is limited....

Lunch Discussion with Sohaira Siddiqui, Assistant Professor of Theology and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar

Lunch and discussion with Laura Weinrib

Thursday, May 4  | 12:00 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights has long been a defining feature of American constitutional democracy. For almost eighty years, Americans across the political spectrum have trusted the courts to protect their civil liberties from suppressive state laws and overbearing officials.  Yet today, broad-based support for civil liberties is...

The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following event:

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea

Stella Ghervas
Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow, HURI;
Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Associate of the Department of History, Harvard University

Monday, April 24, 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm  
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History of the Book

Graduate Student Conference

Revisions

Please visit event website for more information: http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2017-conference

Eighteenth-Century Studies

Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College

CMES is pleased to present the 2017 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Martha Myers
Former Country Director, Save the Children--Syria

Martha Myers has lived and worked in the Middle East for the better part of the last four decades.  Although she has worked in Oman, Yemen,...

Hosted by the Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series. 

ORGANIZER(S): Harvard University Department of Anthropology
EVENT WEBSITE: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/event/mary-prendergast

Join us for a public conversation with Harvard University’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. The event will begin with a screening of a short clip from Professor Gate’s PBS film series, “Africa’s Great Civilizations”. Professor Gates will then speak about the film’s relevance to questions of race in America today. Following his presentation, there will be a panel discussion with Professor Linda Heywood and Professor John Thornton. The program will end with questions from the audience.

ORGANIZER...

Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series

Professor Bernard Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center with generous support from the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund.

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Descried by the Lancet as "microcosm of global health", Southeast Asia features low, middle and high income economies within a small geographic region with multiple shared borders. In conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) in 2017, the Future of Health in Southeast Asia will bring together an exciting range of speakers to discuss the challenges and opportunites facing public health in the region.

Tess Dizon-De Vega, Consul General (New York), Republic of...

Chikamoto Kensuke, Associate Professor of Japanese medieval literature, Nagoya University; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/Discussant: Ryuichi Abe, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Details: Tracing the Prophetic Narratives of a Buddhist Prince: The Construction of Myths and Legends of Shōtoku Taishi in 11^th-...

The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia.

Speakers: William Kirby, Mireya Solis, Mark Wu

Moderated by: Tarun Khana

Chaired by: Andrew Gordon

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, the Harvard University Asia Center, the South Asia Institute, the Korea Institute, the U.S.-Japan Program, and the Reischauer Institute

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Yenching Book Talk

Afternoon Tea with the Author of Shinto: A History

Helen Hardacre, Author; Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Details: Writing the History of Shinto

Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Library

Reischauer Lecture Series 

Empire and Righteous Nation: 60 Years of China-Korea Relations

Speaker: Odd Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University

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