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2017 Mar 01

CMES: Graveyard Of The Clerics: Islamism In Saudi Suburbia

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

 

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture presents

Pascal Menoret
Renée and Lester Crown Chair in Modern Middle East Studies, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

 

Pascal Menoret completed his PhD in 2008 from the Department of History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He joined NYUAD...

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2016 Dec 12

CMES: Whose Narrative Is It? Supporting Moderate Voices In The Syrian Conflict

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Carr Ctr Conf Rm, Rubinstein Building, Rm 291, Harvard Kennedy School

 

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Middle East Initiative, HKS, and the CMES Middle East Forum present

Martha Meyers
MENA Operations Director, ARK Group

Martha Myers has over 30 years of  experience in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Sultanate of Oman. Her professional experience includes having worked for non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, and donor agencies. She has conceptualized, designed, and managed a full spectrum of...

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2016 Dec 09

Center for Geographic Analysis: GIS for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016

9:30am to 4:30pm

Location: 

Room B129, the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.

 

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December 9, 2016 - 9:30am to 4:30pm

Leader/Instructor Jeff Blossom

NON-HARVARD REGISTER

Location: Room B129, the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.

Registration Schedule:

  1. Registration deadline:

    Tuesday,...

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2016 Dec 07

Center for Geographic Analysis: Mapping Vegetation with Synthetic Aperture Radar: Applications in Kenya and Southeast Asia

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Room K450, CGIS Knafel building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.

 

Abstract: Accurate information on the extent and condition of agricultural crops is critical to the formulation and monitoring of food security policies. Remote sensing offers decision makers the ability to look "wide and often", yet in many areas, persistent cloud cover during the growing season reduces the utility of traditional optical remote sensing techniques. This talk presents recent work on the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to map changes in floodplain vegetation in the Tana River Basin in Kenya as well as rice paddy cultivation in...

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2017 Jan 30

CES: "A Dreadful Experience" How the 1946 Zionist Congress in Basel Changed the Center of Gravity of Jewish Politics

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

 

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

 

Simon Erlanger
Professor of Judaic Studies and Theology, University of Luzern

 

In this talk Professor Erlanger will discuss the 1946 22nd Zionist Congress in Basel, the first after the holocaust and the last such gathering before the establishment of the state of Israel.

About

In his memoirs "Trial and Error" Chaim Weitzmann...

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2016 Dec 07

CES: Herder’s Critique of Kant on Perpetual Peace | Eva Piirimäe

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

 

 

Visiting Scholars' Seminar: New Research on Europe

 

Eva Piirimäe
Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Tartu, Estonia; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Johann Gottfried Herder and Immanuel Kant were both critics of despotism, imperialism and colonialism yet held sharply diverging views on epistemology, anthropology, and the foundations of morality. From 1785 on Herder also developed a sustained though...

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2016 Dec 07

Kennedy School: 25 Years After the Collapse of the Soviet Union: What Comes Next?

6:00pm

Location: 

Starr Auditorium, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Graham Allison (Moderator)
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Niall Ferguson
Board of Directors, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Mary Elise Sarotte
Visiting Professor of Government and History, Harvard University

Arne Westad
S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
 

2016 Dec 05

**POSTPONED** HURI: A Friendship Forged in Wartime: Ukrainian-Turkish Encounters on the Galician Front in WWI

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Room S-020,Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Ozan Arslan
Department of Political Science and International Relations,
Izmir University of Economics
&
Hüseyin Oylupınar
2015 Shklar and USF Fellow,
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

 

Monday, Dec. 5, 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Room S-020,Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South,
Harvard University,
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

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