Albert Woodfox and Robert King were exonerated after spending decades imprisoned in Angola Penitentiary (formerly Angola Plantation) in Louisiana. King spent 29 years in solitary confinement before his release in 2001. Woodfox spent 41 years in solitary confinement before his release in 2016. The third member of the Angola 3, Herman Wallace, passed away in 2013 days after being released. All three were placed in long-term solitary confinement because of their role in forming a chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Angola.

Woodfox and King continue...

Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe

Christine Zabel – Postdoctoral Faculty Member, University of Duisburg-Essen; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

About

This talk will discuss 17th and 18th century ideas of uncertainty and possible knowledge of future events. An ‘epistemology of the uncertain’ had emerged by the end of the 17th century. By the mid-18th century it had been applied to economics and finance and transformed into a 'political economy of speculation.' The talk will focus especially on the plans to reform the French trade...

Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Chair: Professor Sun-Joo Kim, Director, Korea Institute; Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Discussants: Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Asia Center, Korea Institute, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series

John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: American and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center 

Yurika Wakamatsu, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Japanese Art History, Harvard 2016), Harvard University

Details: In Pursuit of Reclusion: Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913) and the Gendering of Literati Art in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University  

Note, the room above has been changed (was orignially the Geological Lecture Hall).

William Wyckoff, a leading historical geographer of the American West, will be at Harvard on April 3^rd for an evening lecture (4-6pm) titled, “Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the American West,” and a lunchtime discussion (12-1:15pm) of his recent book How to Read the American West: A Field Guide. The lunch meeting will be a discussion of Chapter 6 of that work, “Landscapes of Federal Largesse”...

Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series 

Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be...

City and Empire in Seleucid Asia Minor: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea

Introduction

This conference is a capstone event for the first phase of the Hellenistic...

Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Presents:

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Asia Center Seminar Series

Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research is on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions. Areas of particular interest include the history of public health and poverty, the history of migration, and environmental history. His most recent work has been on the Bay of Bengal as a region connecting South and Southeast Asia. He has a PhD in History (2005) from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Research Fellow of Trinity College (2004-6).

Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Seminar

Speaker:

Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Harvard University

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Economic History Workshop

Speaker: 

Richard Hornbeck, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate....

Speaker(s): 

Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College; Center Associate, Davis Center

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.