Civil Evasions: Slavery, the Founders, and Rules of Religious Tolerance

Join us for the CAPS Seminar with Christopher Beneke as he presents his talk, "Civil Evasions: Slavery, the Founders, and Rules of Religious Tolerance."

This talk is free and open to the public.

Chris Beneke is associate professor of History at Bentley University. He is the author ofBeyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Oxford, 2006), and co-editor of The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Religious...

Garth Risk Hallberg is author of the best-selling book City on Fire, which was named a best book of 2015 by the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His book has been translated into 17 languages.

In this event, Hallberg will explore the affinities between the modern social novel and the modern city. From Dickens’s London to Richard Wright’s Chicago, from the Paris of Les Misérables to the Boston of The Bostonians, the two have...

On November 15 at noon, Professor Nancy F. Cott will host a student-faculty lunch. Professor Cott is the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard. Her scholarship includes Public Vows, which explores the history of marriage as a public institution in the U.S. She subsequently participated in writing several historians' amici briefs on same-sex marriage and on abortion restrictions.

David Blight, Professor of American History, Yale University

 (moderated by Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin)

This year's Biddle Lecture will be hosted by Harvard Law School's Dean's Office on November 9 at noon. David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University, will deliver a lecture titled: "Douglass! Douglass! Writing the Life of Frederick Douglass: Why, and Why Now?"

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"The Trials of Constance Baker Motley," a film screening and Q&A with Joel Motley

Moderated by Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Event info here: http://hls.harvard.edu/event/the-trials-of-constance-baker-motley-a-film-screening-and-qa-with-joel-motley/ 

Film info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2444440/

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This talk is part of the Diversity and U.S. Legal History Series. Lunch will be provided. http://hls.harvard.edu/event/social-movements-and-social-change-in-twentieth-century-america/ 

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On Tuesday, November 1 at noon, Professor Michael Klarman will join us for lunch to discuss his new book: The Framer's Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution.

Attendees are encouraged to read the book's 24-page conclusion in advance to provide a starting point for our conversation (a PDF will be provided upon RSVP).

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot and note any dietary restrictions by emailing...

Pre-Election Panel
With Jill Lepore, Morris Fiorina, and Stephen Ansolabehere

Please join us for a discussion on the upcoming U.S. presidential election with Jill Lepore and...

See the HURI Website for the most up-to-date information. 

Every two years, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute holds a special lecture in honor of Zenovia Sochor Parry, a former professor at...

Speaker: Jeffrey Gould, Film Director & Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University

Moderator: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazán organized to resist National Guard repression which often involved...

As Confucius (551-479 BCE) has returned to political favor in recent years, his image has become ubiquitous in mainland China and increasingly used abroad to symbolize Chinese culture.  Represented in a great variety of media, both traditional and modern, depictions of the ancient teacher serve new purposes and address a much wider audience than ever before.  Sometimes based on imagery from the dynastic era, when Confucius was meaningful to just the educated elite, his recent portrayals range from monumental public statues and paintings to movies, cartoons, and avant...

Website: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dufu/home

The symposium brings together over twenty scholars in premodern and modern Chinese literary studies from North America and East Asia.  The discussions will focus on four aspects:

• Rethinking Du Fu in the context of the medieval world and poetics
• Dimensions of Du Fu’s works less explored in Du Fu studies, such as Buddhism, humor, self-exegesis, and everyday life
• Reception of Du Fu from Song through Qing literature,...