Cornel West,
Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

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The Trump Era: Hope in a Time of Escalating Despair

We celebrate Professor Cornel West’s return to Harvard at our inaugural Spring Colloquium. Just five days after Donald Trump takes office, Professor West will share his thoughts with us on where our country finds itself right now and the path forward for progressives and...

Fellows' Presentation, Lectures

War and the Soundscapes of Memory

2016–2017 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities

As the generation with a living memory of the Second World War recedes, the critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler...

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

• Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History
• Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
• Daniel Carpenter, director of the social sciences program at the Radcliffe Institute and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government

Cost: Free

Contact Info: ...

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

• Jennifer Finney Boylan, Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence, Barnard College of Columbia University; Chair of the Board of GLAAD; Op-ed columnist, New York Times

Cost: Free

Contact Info: events@radcliffe.harvard.edu

Notes:  Jennifer Finney Boylan will speak about privilege, politics, and poetics. After the lecture, Harvard...

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An interdisciplinary graduate student conference in French and Francophone Studies

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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The Middle East Forum presents

Reese Erlich
Veteran Foreign Correspondent

Reese Erlich’s history in journalism goes back over 40 years. He worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, an investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco. Today he works as a full-time print and broadcast, freelance reporter. He reports regularly for National Public Radio, ABC (Australia), and Radio Deutsche Welle. His articles appear in Vice News and Foreign...

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Ambassador Fareed Yasseen
Ambassador of Iraq to the United States

Educated in Iraq, Switzerland and the United States and trained as a Physicist, initially Ambassador Fareed Yasseen carried out research in Europe and the United States before getting involved in political activism and human rights advocacy. He has worked and consulted for various UN agencies and think tanks. He has served as Head of Policy Planning for the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Diplomatic Adviser to...

The Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Philippe Fargues
Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute; Associate, Harvard Kennedy School.

Demographic trends, such as fertility decline and delayed marriage, have freed individuals from the family constraints of earlier periods. They have produced the first generation of individuals enjoying freedom of movement. Underlying demographic changes,...

New Directions in European History Study Group

SPEAKER 

Mary D. Lewis
Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, New Directions in European...

Details on the Hutchins Center website.

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

Nonconformity in Black and White: Douglass, Du Bois, and Ellison

February 21st: Douglass: Indignation and Gratitude

February 22nd: Du Bois: Representation and Dissent

February 23rd: Ellison: Laughter and Visibility

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

Nonconformity in Black and White: Douglass, Du Bois, and Ellison

February 21st: Douglass: Indignation and Gratitude

February 22nd: Du Bois: Representation and Dissent

February 23rd: Ellison: Laughter and Visibility

David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University

Nonconformity in Black and White: Douglass, Du Bois, and Ellison

February 21st: Douglass: Indignation and Gratitude

February 22nd: Du Bois: Representation and Dissent

February 23rd: Ellison: Laughter and Visibility

Bobby Seale in Conversation

Please note - due a scheduling conflict, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will no longer be participating in the conversation with Bobby Seale.

 Bobby Seale was Original 1966 Founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party. His activism and trials brought America and the world face to face with the Panthers’ radical articulation of civil rights and human rights for African Americans. 

Professor Jim Sidanius, professor of psychology and African and African American...