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Speaker: Rainer Schultz, PhD, Director of the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA), Cuba Divisional Center in Havana 

Moderators: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American...

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Speaker:  Claudia Mattos Avolese, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Campinas; DRCLAS Cisneros Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Moderator:  Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government,...

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Speaker: Robert Karl, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University; Santander Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS

As their society attempted in the late 1950s to move beyond the...

Panelists:

Prerna Lal (East Bay Community Law Center)
Lisa Lowe (Tufts University)
Keish Kim (Harvard American Studies graduate student)
Medhin Paolos (Asmarina Project, and Rete G2 Milano)
Maurice Stierl (University of California, Davis)
Lorgia Garcia Pena (Harvard University) – introductions and leading the discussion

For up-to-date information, please see the...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ümit Kurt
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, Greeks, and Jews of Aintab greeted the CUP's declaration of the Second Constitutional Era and the...

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...