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,...

Fall Colloquium with Nikki A. Greene

Nikki A. Greene, Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Art Department, Wellesley College

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

Speakers:

Johannes Lindvall

Professor of...

2016 S.T. Lee Lecture

The Harvard Kennedy School Office of Alumni Relations and Resource Development and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation invite you to the 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture, presented by Rana Mitter, Professor of History and Politics of Modern China...

Rethinking Translation

Stephen Owen, Harvard University

Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Joel Christensen, Brandeis University

Buddhist Studies Forum
Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness: A Forgotten Treasure of the Great Perfection, Its Authorship and Historical Significance
Cosponsored...

Medieval Studies
Stephen Mitchell, Harvard University
The (Real) Mother of Dragons
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World

Marina Leslie, Northeastern University

“Fiction is History, Human History, Or It Is Nothing": A Historian Reads Joseph Conrad

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence

Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

A discussion...

The Ash Center is hosting a book talk with Edward B. Foley, the Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Law and Director of Election Law at The Ohio State University College of Law and author of Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States. This talk will be...