The Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Philippe Fargues
Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute; Associate, Harvard Kennedy School.

Demographic trends, such as fertility decline and delayed marriage, have freed individuals from the family constraints of earlier periods. They have produced the first generation of individuals enjoying freedom of movement. Underlying demographic changes,...

New Directions in European History Study Group

SPEAKER 

Mary D. Lewis
Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, New Directions in European...

Details on the Hutchins Center website.

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

Nonconformity in Black and White: Douglass, Du Bois, and Ellison

February 21st: Douglass: Indignation and Gratitude

February 22nd: Du Bois: Representation and Dissent

February 23rd: Ellison: Laughter and Visibility

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

Nonconformity in Black and White: Douglass, Du Bois, and Ellison

February 21st: Douglass: Indignation and Gratitude

February 22nd: Du Bois: Representation and Dissent

February 23rd: Ellison: Laughter and Visibility

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

Nonconformity in Black and White: Douglass, Du Bois, and Ellison

February 21st: Douglass: Indignation and Gratitude

February 22nd: Du Bois: Representation and Dissent

February 23rd: Ellison: Laughter and Visibility

Bobby Seale in Conversation

Please note - due a scheduling conflict, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will no longer be participating in the conversation with Bobby Seale.

 Bobby Seale was Original 1966 Founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party. His activism and trials brought America and the world face to face with the Panthers’ radical articulation of civil rights and human rights for African Americans. 

Professor Jim Sidanius, professor of psychology and African and African American...

Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente 
Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

Juan Roberto Diago is a leading member of the new Afro-Cuban...

Hutchins W.E.B. Dubois Research Institute

Christian Ayne Crouch, Associate Professor, Historical Studies and American Studies, Bard College

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A Lost Prince: Alemayu Tewodros in the British Imperial World, 1868-1879        

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch....

Jews of Russia/Eastern Europe Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Antony Polonsky, Serhii Plokhii, Marta Daria Olynyk, Harvey Budner, ...

Jews of Russia/Eastern Europe Seminar

The paper discusses the artistic career of Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945), Boris Pasternak’s father, against the background of the debates about the possibility and the nature of Jewish art in the beginning of 20th century. It analyzes Leonid Pasternak’s role and place in the crystallization of Jewish national self-consciousness that expressed in the early stages of the Zionist movement in Russia and Europe.

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Literature and Culture Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Gabriella Safran, Professor and Director, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Stanford University

Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard University Department of...

Throughout western history women have been assigned a status as cultural observers and social facilitators to men's roles as cultural performers and social actors. This status, however, was not fixed and cultural-social gender barriers could be crossed and moved. Authority in the family, responsibilities in the public sphere, communal activism, economic productivity, education, ritual religious roles, literary and artistic creativity were all forms of cultural capital which could position women at intersections of power and privilege and challenge gender hierarchies. This talk...

Lisa Fagin Davis (The Medieval Academy),
Co-Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in Medieval Studies and Book History