10

======**=======**========**=======

     You are cordially invited to the annual

                   BOK CENTER
           HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE

           Thursday, December 8th
                 2:00pm - 3:30pm

            Science Center Room 318

Please join us to ...

This talk employs Theodor Herzl’s relationship with eastern European Jewry as a case study of the social construction of charisma and the legitimization of leadership. There was considerable tension between Theodor Herzl and the Eastern European Zionist activists who had founded the Lovers of Zion movement more than a decade before Herzl burst upon the scene. They viewed Herzl with a mixture of veneration, envy, suspicion, and derision. Yet it was Herzl, not they, who captured the attention of the masses, dazzled them with his very strangeness, and replenished their self-...

Fellows Seminar

The 2016–2017 theme of this interdisciplinary seminar series is "Ideas, Ideologies, and Power: Eurasia Past and Present,"and is coordinated by Professor ...

Fellows Seminar

The 2016–2017 theme of this interdisciplinary seminar series is "Ideas, Ideologies, and Power: Eurasia Past and Present,"and is coordinated by Professor ...

Interested in Latin America? Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region this summer! Gain internship experience, study, or participate in experiential learning through immersive programs offered between June - August, 2017.

Programs Offered:
• Summer Internship Program (SIP) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico & Peru
• Health & Spanish Immersion Program...

Speaker: Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Pennsylvania

Series chaired and moderated by Mariano Siskind, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

In this workshop we will discuss how fiction represented historical transitions to capitalism in rural twentieth-century Latin America. Against commonplace assumptions about the rural as backward, traditional and/or feudal (in contrast with...

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...

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...

The Middle East Forum presents

Mohammed Omer
Visiting Researcher, CMES; Palestinian journalist

Contact: Liz Flanagan

REGISTER

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,...

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...

See the Harvard Colloquim website for the most up to date information. 

...

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...

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...