Elsewhere at Harvard

AAAS Professor Brandon Terry will be the featured speaker on Thursday, October 1, 2020, from 1:30-2:30pm (Eastern) as part of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy's signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now...

On Friday, October 2, 2020, from 12:00-2:00 (Eastern), AAAS Professor Alejandro de la Fuente will moderate a talk by Professor Devyn Spence Benson from Davidson College entitled Afrocubanas: Translating Black Cuban Feminisms. This virtual event is free...

The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not “give” women the vote. Rather, it established a negative: that the right to vote could not be abridged on account of sex alone. When the amendment passed, many women were already voting in states that...

Speaker: Heather Curtis (Tufts University) To register for the Zoom call, click here. Please email cwc@fas.harvard.edu for access the paper for this workshop.

In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic This paper explores the legacy of ab urbe condita historiography under the Principate. Beginning with Fabius Pictor, historiography was born in Rome as a practice that sought to record the entire...

Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object". Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop. Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register...

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Paulina Alberto. “Black Legend: “El Negro” Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern Argentina” (forthcoming manuscript...

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, “Peripheral Freedoms: Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming manuscript)...

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postocolonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge University...

Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae". Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Dept of English, and the Early Modern History Workshop. Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us...