The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Jocelyne Cesari
Professor of Religion and Politics, Department of Theology and Religion, Director of Research, Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham

Jocelyne Cesari is Professor of Religion and Politics, and Director of the Cadbury Centre at the University of Birmingham. She is also Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center where she directs the ‘Islam in World Politics’ program....

3D Lecture and Book Signing 

The Marshall family, which filmed and studied the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, created one of the most significant visual anthropology projects of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the Peabody Museum, the Marshalls made eight trips to Namibia (then South West Africa) in the 1950s to document some of the world’s last surviving self-sufficient hunter-gatherers, the Ju/’hoansi and G/wi people (earlier known pejoratively as “Bushmen” and later as the !Kung and the San). Using the Marshall family’s collection of stereo...

Richard Jean So, University of Chicago

Details: Can Computation Change the Study of Chinese Culture and History?

Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Harvard University

Romance Languages and Literatures / Theater, Dance & Media

French 148c Troupe...

Reception at 5:30pm

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, will host a conversation about the impact of Title IX and the work that remains to be done when it comes to equality and sports.

Participants:

• Swin Cash, director of player development, New York Liberty; WNBA champion (2003, 2006, and 2010); Olympic gold medalist in women’s basketball (2004 and 2012); NCAA champion (University of...

Opening reception: Thursday, May 11, 2017 4:00pm - 8:00pm

The Show and Sale continues: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 12, 13, and 14, 10:00am - 7:00pm

More than fifty artists will present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone and attracts several thousand visitors each year. It’s the perfect place to find Mother’s Day gifts! Free cups made by the exhibitors will be given away on a first-come...

Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa; Visiting Professor of Art History, Yale University

Western museums have always been in the business of displaying, provoking, and seeking to satisfy curiosity. The collections of the Peabody...

A Seminar Taught by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton

Cookbooks are among the best sources we have for the study of food history, but they are complex documents that yield their secrets only to an attentive and systematic reader. Join scholar, writer, and honorary curator of the library’s culinary collection, Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, for a highly interactive, weeklong seminar in augmenting research skills in culinary history. A maximum of sixteen participants will have the opportunity to work closely with Ms. Wheaton to explore the art of reading cookbooks for meaning.

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Jal Mehta

2016–2017 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Jal Mehta RI '17

At Radcliffe, Jal Mehta is working on a book, “The Chastened Dream,” which is a history of how publicly oriented professional schools—education, public health,...

Adam J. Aja
Assistant Curator of Collections, Harvard Semitic Museum; Assistant Director, Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon; Chief Stratigrapher, Tel Shimron Excavations 

Brazil Studies Program:

Speaker: Aluisio Segurado, Chairman, International Relations Committee, University of São Paulo Medical School

Aluísio C. Segurado is a Full Professor in the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. He was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Program of International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008. After graduating in medicine from the University of São Paulo, he completed his Master’s in Science and Ph.D. degrees in Infectious Diseases from the...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents

Dr. Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil
Chairman, Aldukheil Financial Group, a leading financial advisory firm based in Riyadh; former Saudi Deputy Minister of Finance

Dr. Aldukheil’s publications include Saudi Government Revenues and Expenditures: A Financial Crisis in the Making (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and The Banking System and its Performance in Saudi Arabia (Saqi Books, 1995). He earned a PhD in...

The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

Dr. Sait Ocakli
Shklar Fellow, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Currently an instructor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, Sait Ocakli comes to HURI in the spring to conduct postdoctoral research on the warfare and diplomacy of the Crimean Khanate. Focusing specifically on the second reign of Khan...

Edward Ball is a nonfiction writer who has published five books of history and biography. Winner of a National Book Award for Slaves in the Family, Ball has written two books that have reached the New York Times Best Sellers list. His book The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures—a story of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge— is in development as a television miniseries. Since 2010, he has taught nonfiction writing, part-time, at Yale...

Hosted by the Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series. 

ORGANIZER(S): Harvard University Department of Anthropology
EVENT WEBSITE: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/event/mary-prendergast