Jal Mehta

2016–2017 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Jal Mehta RI '17

At Radcliffe, Jal Mehta is working on a book, “The Chastened Dream,” which is a history of how publicly oriented professional schools—education, public health,...

Adam J. Aja
Assistant Curator of Collections, Harvard Semitic Museum; Assistant Director, Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon; Chief Stratigrapher, Tel Shimron Excavations 

Brazil Studies Program:

Speaker: Aluisio Segurado, Chairman, International Relations Committee, University of São Paulo Medical School

Aluísio C. Segurado is a Full Professor in the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. He was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Program of International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008. After graduating in medicine from the University of São Paulo, he completed his Master’s in Science and Ph.D. degrees in Infectious Diseases from the...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents

Dr. Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil
Chairman, Aldukheil Financial Group, a leading financial advisory firm based in Riyadh; former Saudi Deputy Minister of Finance

Dr. Aldukheil’s publications include Saudi Government Revenues and Expenditures: A Financial Crisis in the Making (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and The Banking System and its Performance in Saudi Arabia (Saqi Books, 1995). He earned a PhD in...

The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

Dr. Sait Ocakli
Shklar Fellow, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Currently an instructor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, Sait Ocakli comes to HURI in the spring to conduct postdoctoral research on the warfare and diplomacy of the Crimean Khanate. Focusing specifically on the second reign of Khan...

Edward Ball is a nonfiction writer who has published five books of history and biography. Winner of a National Book Award for Slaves in the Family, Ball has written two books that have reached the New York Times Best Sellers list. His book The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures—a story of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge— is in development as a television miniseries. Since 2010, he has taught nonfiction writing, part-time, at Yale...

Hosted by the Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series. 

ORGANIZER(S): Harvard University Department of Anthropology
EVENT WEBSITE: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/event/mary-prendergast

China Humanities Seminar

S.E. Kile, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Details: Forging A Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal

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Join us Today at 6:00pm in Room 110, Barker Center for Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University, on Theodor Adorno. We encourage attendees to read Theodor Adorno's 1969 essay "Resignation" in advance of this event.

The Master Class 1968 series features close readings of key texts that shaped the global protests and uprisings on the centennial of that pivotal year.

Free and open to the public; seating is limited....

Lunch Discussion with Sohaira Siddiqui, Assistant Professor of Theology and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar

Lunch and discussion with Laura Weinrib

Thursday, May 4  | 12:00 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights has long been a defining feature of American constitutional democracy. For almost eighty years, Americans across the political spectrum have trusted the courts to protect their civil liberties from suppressive state laws and overbearing officials.  Yet today, broad-based support for civil liberties is...

The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following event:

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea

Stella Ghervas
Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow, HURI;
Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Associate of the Department of History, Harvard University

Monday, April 24, 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm  
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History of the Book

Graduate Student Conference

Revisions

Please visit event website for more information: http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2017-conference

Eighteenth-Century Studies

Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College

CMES is pleased to present the 2017 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Martha Myers
Former Country Director, Save the Children--Syria

Martha Myers has lived and worked in the Middle East for the better part of the last four decades.  Although she has worked in Oman, Yemen,...