Three-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, educator, and founder and Artistic Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Arturo O’Farrill will be visiting the Harvard campus in late February. A musician of deep social conscience, all of Arturo’s music is written with someone, something, or some community, in mind. A ferocious collaborator of musicians of many styles, as well as the dance idiom, Arturo’s latest project is entitled “Little Tiny Walls” and will feature musicians from Mexican folkloric styles, Afro-Latin jazz, and the classical idiom, collaborating and playing...

Reading and Discussion with Kate Luongo and Matt Carotenuto, authors of Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and Politics of Belonging

ORGANIZER: Hutchins Center
WEBSITE:  http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/february-21...

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation

Brian Ruppert, Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of Japanese Studies, Bates College

Moderator: Ryuichi Abe, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University

Details: Thinking with Scriptures and Their Uses: Great Notes (Maka shō), Raishin’s Notes (Raishin shō), and the Dissemination of Ritual Scripture (Shōgyō) in Early Medieval Japan
 

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Carolyn Wong , Research Associate at the Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University

Corky Lee, American photographer

Details: Two Formative Moments: Emergence of New Asian American and Southeast Asian American Activists in the late 1960s and in...

Tang Xiaobing, Associate Professor, History Department, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Details: The Road to the Chinese Communist Revolution: How Petty Intellectuals...

Dr. Chavez examines public discourse surrounding children of immigrants, DACA and so-called "anchor babies," exploring how media coverage justifies exclusionary public policies and attempts to redefine the meaning of citizenship. Efforts to repeal or change the 14th Amendment would remove...

Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in the American Indian Journal of Culture and Research, American Poets, BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Eleven Eleven, KR Online, Mud City, the New York Times, PEN America, and Poetry, among others. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts &...

Fellows' Presentation

Part of the 2017–2018 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Paul J. Kosmin...

Fellows' Presentation

Part of the 2017–2018 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Sophie Hochhäusl RI...

A Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary Event

June Millicent Jordan (1936–2002) called herself a “dissident American poet,” and she counted among her forebears powerful voices ranging from Walt Whitman to Phyllis Wheatley. She began writing verse at the age of seven; her papers at the Schlesinger Library contain stunning material about the girlhood that prefaced her remarkable career as creator and critic, educator, and activist.

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger and the 75th anniversary of the...

Lara Freidenfelds

“Your Baby on Day 33”: Pregnancy Development Timelines

from Nineteenth-Century Maternity Guides to Twenty-First Century Apps

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Williams College ALEXANDER BEVILACQUA for a discussion of his new book, The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment.

About The Republic of Arabic Letters

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches...

GSAS Workshop - Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome

Prof. Dean Hammer (Franklin and Marshall)

Nicholas R. Jones, Bucknell University

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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