Professor Philip Deloria will give this semester's Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, February 21 from 6:00-7:30 pm in Barker 110. Deloria is the Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature and Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among...

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Talk Title: "Dispossession and the Party Form: The Case of the MNR in Post-revolutionary Bolivia"

Speaker: Edwin Ackerman, WIGH Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University

Hosted by: The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Note: The seminar paper is available by request to jbarnard[at]wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

 

Speaker: Francesca Trivellato (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study)

Talk Title: The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

 

 

Speaker: Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

Talk Title: ‘For the benefit of the masses’: Socialist thinking before Socialism in Calcutta (1843-46)

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Panelist: Tansen Sen

Professor of History, NYU Shanghai

Panelist: Eric Tagliacozzo

Professor of History, Cornell University

Chair: Sunil Amrith

Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies
Department of South Asian Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and...

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Professor Roger Owen's memorial service will be held from 2-4 PM on February 19 at Harvard Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA. 

Presented by Manulani Aluli Meyer (Associate Professor of Education, University of Hawai‘i)

Please check in with the Mahindra Humanities Center event page for more details.

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Presented by Blythe George (Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University)

Presented by Joseph Gone (Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Universtiy)

Presented by Philip Deloria (Professor of History, Harvard Universtiy)

With respondant Karen Kramer (Curator of Native American and Oceanic Art and Culture, Peabody Essex Museum)

Co-sponsored with the American Literature and Culture Seminar

This conference regards money as a public project. It brings scholars, journalists, and policymakers into conversation about how to realize its democratic possibilities, past and present. Topics that will be covered include economic development, financialization and inequality, assault gun sales, postal banking, a federal job guarantee, and monetary politics.

 

The conference is geared toward scholars and students, at...

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The ‘material turn’ in art history opened new avenues for research with fresh approaches that shift our attention from considering an object as a static thing in an absolute state to putting more emphasis on the process of making and its use and reuse. A chipped area in a miniature painting is no longer an unfortunate loss but a site of excavation for information about material conditions of production and use, while unfinished surface in a stone sculpture provides a laboratory to explore artisans’ hands at work.

This symposium brings together scholars whose research embraces...

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We are delighted to invite you to attend a public lecture by Dr. Donna Zuckerberg next Thursday, December 6, 2018, from 4-6pm in Boylston Hall's Fong Auditorium. Dr. Zuckerberg is the Editor-in-Chief of the Classics blog, ...

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The 2018-19 CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents:

Christina Maranci

Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian art and architectural history, Tufts University

 

Christina Maranci is the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian art and architectural history at Tufts University and is also Chair of the Department. She has held visiting positions in Armenian art at the University of Chicago and...

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