Brandon Bloch

PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate , Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Graduate Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Contact: Gili Kliger (kliger@g.harvard.edu)

How do democracies form and what makes them die? In his new book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy, Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler’s 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major...

2017 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture and Reception

Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Director General, The National Museum of Tanzania

Tanzania has a record of more than three million years of human history and diversity, including fossil remains, footprints, and stone toolkits of early humans and hominin ancestors, from sites such as Laetoli, Olduvai Gorge, and Peninj. The National Museum of Tanzania supports the preservation of the country’s rich natural and cultural diversity through scientific research, education, and public outreach programs. Audax Mabulla will discuss...

Please join the Carr Center and a group of Rwandan students from Harvard University for a commemorative seminar in honor of the victims of the 1994 genocide of Rwandans. 

The Rwandan Student Community at Harvard University together with the Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, the Center for African Studies and the HKS Africa Caucus invite you to the 23rd commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi.

This commemoration event will feature a seminar discussion on crimes of genocide and how the global community can work together to prevent such atrocities from...

 Roma Sendyka
Associate Professor at the Polish Studies Department and the head of the Research Center for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Central and Eastern Europe—the scenes of brutal genocides during the last century—are dotted with sites of trauma. Only some of those potential sites of memory are now marked with plaques, gravestones or memorials. This talk will focus on the sites that have been left behind, contested or forgotten and that still contain the bodies of victims. Because the problematic sites are kept out of the social...

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” which explores how to see the federal presence that is imprinted on the...

Join the University of Wisconsin-Madison, MIT STS and Harvard University for a screening of The Land Beneath Our Feet.

The Land Beneath Our Feet weaves together rare archival footage from a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia with the journey of a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, seeking to understand how the past has shaped land conflicts in his country today. This film is an explosive reminder of how large-scale land grabs are transforming livelihoods across the planet.

 

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The Public Engagement in the Social Sciences Working Group presents:

“Live, Write, Advocate Beyond the Discipline:

A Conversation with Arthur Kleinman”

Tuesday, March 28^th from 5-6:30^PM

Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room 203

21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

Dr. Arthur Kleinman is professor of medical...

Please join The Center for American Political Studies for a talk & reception with artist Oscar Palacio and Robin Kelsey, in conjunction with Palacio's exhibition, American...

For more information, see the WCFIA website.

Speaker:

Jeffrey Schnapp, Affiliated Professor, Department of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Professor of Romance Languages & Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Heather Conrad...

Petryshyn Memorial Lecture:

Frank Sysyn
Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)

SACHIKO KAWAI, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Premodern Japanese History, University of Southern California 2015), Harvard University

Moderator: DAVID L. HOWELL, Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University

MIKAEL BAUER, Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions, McGill University

Moderator: RYUICHI ABE, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University

MICHAEL BASKETT, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Kansas

Moderator: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civlizations, Harvard University

Dean Lizabeth Cohen of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University invites you to attend a reception and panel discussion with current Radcliffe Fellows:

TOMIKO BROWN-NAGIN
2016–2017 Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; 
Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; 
Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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