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2018 Mar 19

Ctr. for African Studies: Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Semitic Museum, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St

Free Public Lecture

Laurel Bestock, Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Egyptology and Assyriology, and the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4,000 years ago, defending it with a string of monumental fortresses along the Nile River. Previously thought lost, when the construction of the Aswan High Dam flooded the area, one fortress, known as Uronarti, was recently rediscovered and is being excavated for the first time since George Reisner’s...

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2018 Mar 19

EALC: Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Zheng Yanqing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”

Shao Yanjun, Peking University: “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”

Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers, Sharpers, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.”

Details: Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries...

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2018 Mar 19

Fairbank Center: When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in “The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu,  Academia Sinica, HYI Visiting Scholar

The Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean, a...

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2018 Mar 08

DRCLAS: Grassroots Urbanism: Participatory Urban Planning in Post-WWII São Paulo

12:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Image of citySpeaker: Marcio Siwi, College Fellow in Latin American History, History Department, Harvard University

This presentation examines the understudied role of popular neighborhood associations in the rise of participatory urban planning in São Paulo. Often dismissed as “... Read more about DRCLAS: Grassroots Urbanism: Participatory Urban Planning in Post-WWII São Paulo
2018 Mar 07

Center for the Environment: THIS LAND IS OUR LAND: The Antiquities Act and the Battle for Public Lands

5:00pm

Location: 

Northwest B103, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge

HUCE presents "This Land is Our Land: The Antiquities Act and the Battle for Public Lands" with John Leshy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; former Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior (Clinton Administration); and four-time visiting professor at HLS. With comment by Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, HLS, and Terry Tempest Williams, Writer-in-Residence, HDS. Reception to follow. 

John Leshy is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of...

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2018 Mar 10

Spring Recess

Sat Mar 10 (All day) to Sun Mar 18 (All day)

2018 Mar 08

Ash Center: Lessons from the Democratic Transition in Mongolia: 25 Years After Revolution

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North

Join us for a discussion with Jargal Dambadarjaa, economist and media personality, about the democratic transition in Mongolia following the first multi-party elections in 1990. Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, will moderate. Anthony Saich, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Director...

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2018 Mar 05

The Law and History Program Spring Reception & Panel Discussion

12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall Rm. 104

“How to Publish an Article: A Panel on the Craft of Law and History”

Presenting on the panel will be Deborah Gershenowitz, Senior Editor for American and Latin American History, Cambridge University Press and Steven Schaus, Articles Committee Co-Chair, Harvard Law Review. Moderated by Tomiko-Brown Nagin, Daniel P.S. Paul...

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2018 Feb 27

GSD: On Monuments: Place, Time, and Memory

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

This event is co-organized by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Opening Remarks by:
Drew Faust
President of Harvard University
Lincoln Professor of History

Introduction by:
Mohsen Mostafavi
Dean and Alexander and...

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2018 Mar 19

Radcliffe: Citizen Indigenous (vital issues of tribal citizenship) - Panel Discussion

4:15pm

Location: 

Sheer room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Leading members from the Oneida Nation, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and United Houma Nation of Louisiana will discuss vital issues of tribal citizenship in Indian Country. By exploring topics such as constitutional reform, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and descendancy, the speakers will discuss the many different ways Native tribes and nations define, grant, and express indigenous citizenship.
 
This program is cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Honoring Nations program.

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