Panel with Jean-Claude Redonnet, Virginie Greene and Christopher Capozzola

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Join a Fellow’s Lecture with Dr. Maribel Fierro.

 Dr. Fierro will discuss her current research on a significant Andalusian judicial figure from the 11th Century. Dr. Fierro's research focuses on the political, religious, and intellectual history of al-Andalus and the Islamic West (eighth—fifteenth centuries), on Islamic law, and on violence and its representation in Medieval Arabic sources.

 Dr. Fierro is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; and Director of El Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (...

 This is the first meeting of a proposed annual conference of a research network that will meet every year at a different university, our other partner institutions being Chicago, Columbia and Cornell. Graduate Students from Harvard and beyond will convene to discuss a range of historical topics about...

Panelists:

• Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment))
• Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University)
• Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)
• Zhang Longxi (Chair...

Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture

Paolo Visonà
associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington

In this lecture, Paolo Visonà,  will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage, underscoring its...

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800
Who Speaks for the Poor: Electoral Geography, Party Entry and Representation?

Karen Jusko
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Please note: there is no paper for this talk

This talk will present the argument of a forthcoming book, Who Speaks for the Poor? that explains why political parties represent some groups but not others. Jusko offers a new explanation for the absence of a low-income peoples’ party in the US, and a more...

Harvard University History of Art + Architecture
Graduate Student Lecture Series

"Fear of The Unseen:" Geology, (Paleo)Anthropology, and Inhabitation in Frederick Kiesler's Magic Architecture

Spyros Papapetros

Associate Professor, History and Theory of Architecture

Princeton University

Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, 5:30pm

Harvard Art Museums

Deknatel Lecture Hall

Enter via Broadway

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*Not open to the public. 

Professor Chris Desan will host a student-faculty lunch on April 13. Professor Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her research explores money as a legal and political project, one that configures the market it sets out to measure. She has recently published a book called Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2014).  She is also the editor of Inside Money:  Re-Theorizing Liquidity (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press),...

Professor Higginbotham will host a student-faculty lunch on March 28 at Grafton Street Pub & Grill.

Professor Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and currently serves as the National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. A pioneering scholar in African American women’s history, she is the author of the prizewinning book Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920. She is the recipient of numerous awards...

Spring Reception/ Panel on Immigration Law in Historical Perspective, Wednesday March 22 from 12-1

The Law & History Program of Study Spring Reception and Advising Lunch will feature a panel discussion on "Immigration Law in Historical Perspective," with Professors Gerald Neuman and Mary Lewis, moderated by Adriaan Lanni. Wasserstein Hall, Room 3019. (Poster attached.)

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(public reception to follow)

hosted by Michael McCormick

The public lecture will be preceded by a workshop from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm on studies in progress involving Reccopolis. Those interested in attending the workshop should ...

Harvard Law School European Legal History Lecture Series

Sponsored by the International Academic Program – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Fundación Asisa.

Speaker:  John Hudson (University of St Andrews and Michigan Law)

Topic:  “Emotions in the Early Common Law"

History Graduate Student Association Annual

BOOK SALE!!!

Find rare and interesting books, text books, coffee table books, so many books you won't believe your eyes! Priced to go and all to help the Graduate Student Association with annual projects and events. 

Now...

The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~int-hist/seminarseries.shtml

 co-sponsored with the Colloquium on Intellectual and Cultural History

"The Chicago World Constitution (1948) and the Quest for Post-war Order"

Or Rosenboim...

Join Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale, as he discusses the historical lessons learned from anti-authoritarian movements in 20th century Europe. Moshik Temkin, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, HKS, will moderate the event. 

About the Speaker

Timothy Snyder is the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, specializing in the history of central and eastern Europe. Born in 1969 in southwestern Ohio and a graduate of Centerville High School, he received his B.A. from Brown University and his...