The CES/CMES Colonial Encounters Working Group presents

Casey Primel
Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University

On December 10, 1902, the sluices of Egypt's Aswan Dam were opened for the first time. The Aswan Dam was an exemplar of colonial engineering, the project of remaking colonial society through material infrastructure. Its completion culminated one among many competing visions for the Nile in the late nineteenth century. This paper examines another of those visions....

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Elizabeth Shlala
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Elizabeth H. Shlala earned a PhD in History from Georgetown University. She has held academic positions at London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University, Columbia University,...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a workshop

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this workshop seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the modern Middle East. At stake is the search for new sources...

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

Patrick Le Gales
Director of CNRS Research at the Center for European Studies, Science Po

This will be a presentation without a paper in advance.

Colonial Encounters and Divergent Development Trajectories in the Mediterranean Study Group

Speaker: 

Elizabeth Thompson
Mohamed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, American University

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The arc of Syrian history in the 20th century was determined at Paris in 1919. Prince Faisal, leader of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans, traveled to the peace conference at the end of World War I to make the claim...

Dominique Brancher, Université de Bâle

Montaigne chez Esculape: Ecriture sceptique et modèle medical à la Renaissance

Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

Refreshments provided

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/talk-title-tba-46

Monday, March 27, 2017, 12:00pm, Room 133, Barker Center

Shane Bobrycki, Harvard University

Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/plus-quam-civile-bellum-emisidore-sevilleem

Please RSVP by March 23 to Hannah Weaver (...

Panel with Jean-Claude Redonnet, Virginie Greene and Christopher Capozzola

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Join a Fellow’s Lecture with Dr. Maribel Fierro.

 Dr. Fierro will discuss her current research on a significant Andalusian judicial figure from the 11th Century. Dr. Fierro's research focuses on the political, religious, and intellectual history of al-Andalus and the Islamic West (eighth—fifteenth centuries), on Islamic law, and on violence and its representation in Medieval Arabic sources.

 Dr. Fierro is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; and Director of El Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (...

 This is the first meeting of a proposed annual conference of a research network that will meet every year at a different university, our other partner institutions being Chicago, Columbia and Cornell. Graduate Students from Harvard and beyond will convene to discuss a range of historical topics about...

Panelists:

• Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment))
• Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University)
• Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)
• Zhang Longxi (Chair...

Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture

Paolo Visonà
associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington

In this lecture, Paolo Visonà,  will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage, underscoring its...

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800
Who Speaks for the Poor: Electoral Geography, Party Entry and Representation?

Karen Jusko
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Please note: there is no paper for this talk

This talk will present the argument of a forthcoming book, Who Speaks for the Poor? that explains why political parties represent some groups but not others. Jusko offers a new explanation for the absence of a low-income peoples’ party in the US, and a more...

Harvard University History of Art + Architecture
Graduate Student Lecture Series

"Fear of The Unseen:" Geology, (Paleo)Anthropology, and Inhabitation in Frederick Kiesler's Magic Architecture

Spyros Papapetros

Associate Professor, History and Theory of Architecture

Princeton University

Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, 5:30pm

Harvard Art Museums

Deknatel Lecture Hall

Enter via Broadway

...

*Not open to the public. 

Professor Chris Desan will host a student-faculty lunch on April 13. Professor Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her research explores money as a legal and political project, one that configures the market it sets out to measure. She has recently published a book called Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2014).  She is also the editor of Inside Money:  Re-Theorizing Liquidity (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press),...