9:30 AM     Workshop Opens

9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China

Speaker: Erik...

Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar
Chair/discussant: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

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This talk examines...

Speaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University

It is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of...

Cold War Studies Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Ruta Vanagaite, Lithuanian journalist and writer
Efraim Zuroff, Coordinator of Nazi War Crimes Research and Director of Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs, Simon Wiesenthal Center

In the highly acclaimed book Our People: Journey with an Enemy, Ruta Vanagaite and Efraim Zuroff sought to bring to light the role of ordinary Lithuanians in the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry during World War II. They visited 40 sites of mass murder in Lithuania and Belarus,...

Speaker(s): 

Alexis Peri, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University

The late Stalinist period was notorious as an era of isolationism and growing hysteria against western influence--including prohibitions against marrying foreigners. Likewise, the Truman administration’s anxieties about containing communism touched off a series of decrees to limit subversive speech and inspect Americans’ loyalties. And yet, during this tumultuous time,...

Speaker(s): 

Pavel Litvinov, Retired Physicist and Former Leading Soviet Human Rights Activist
Lydia Voronina, Former Soviet Dissident and Human Rights Activist 
Joshua Rubenstein, Associate Director for Major Gifts, Harvard Law School 
Tatiana Yankelevich, Davis Center Associate and stepdaughter of Andrei Sakharov 

Chaired by Mark Kramer, Director of Cold War Studies

Please read ...

CES Dissertation Workshop

Andrew Bellisari
PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

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This chapter provides an overview of the Algerian War between November 1954 and March 1962 as well as a more detailed look at the four-month “transition period” between the signing of the Evian Accords in March 1962 and the referendum on Algerian independence in July 1962. This chapter will also discuss the months immediately following independence between July 1962...

RSVPs appreciated but not required: cwc@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-3591

Directions: http://q2m.hms.harvard.edu/Directions.htm

A panel discussion with Shaughnessy Naughton (Founder, 314 Action)...

Timothy Stewart-Winter (Rutgers University) “Morals: Police Harassment, Sexual Deviance, and Mid-Twentieth Century American Politics”

Presented by the Workshop on Crime and Punishment

Rebecca Lemov (Harvard University) “American Practices of Coercive Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror”

Presented by the Workshop on Crime and Punishment

Frank Blibo A.M., MTS, Th.M.: PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine present: ...

The Afro-Latin American Research Institute will host Interactive Workshop delivered by James Almeida "Minting Slavery: Labor and Race in Potosí, 1570-1800" on...

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, and Maria Tatar, Harvard University

$10 registration fee per person. (No Charge for MHS Members or Fellows)

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Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS)