Bram de Ridder (University of Leuven)

Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop.

Kendra Field (Tufts University)

Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.

Carlota McAllister (York University)

Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.

Shatema Threadcraft (Rutgers University)

Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past

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Standing Committee on Archaeology

Harvard University

Abstract

The creation, management, sharing, and preservation of digital data and media have gained great...

"Durability: A History of the Future, 1869-1912"
Speaker: Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Commentator: Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: ...

"al Bustani's Arabic Encyclopedia (1870s-1880s) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant"
Speaker: Ilhan Khuri Makdisi, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Commentator: Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University

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Casey Primel, WIGH Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950A, Approaches to Global History, and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to the interested public during which students and faculty participants will present current research. Faculty participants will be drawn...

Wrangling Data into Maps - Cambridge - Spring 2017

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February 10, 2017 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm

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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

SPEAKER
Devin E. Naar
Sephardic Studies Program Chair, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Washington

Drawing on his book, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, this presentation will explore the fate of the Jews of Salonica (Thessaloniki)--once home to the largest Sephardic community in the world--as they managed the impact of the collapse of the Ottoman...

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group: 

SPEAKER

Marco Di Giulio

Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Program of Judaic Studies & Italian Department Franklin & Marshall College

This talk will analyze how modern Jewish translations of traditional religious texts into Italian have served as a platform for ethnic self-definition and, more recently, for engaging in forms of identity politics.

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Unlike German Jews, who had generated eight translations of the Bible...

SPEAKER

Kathleen McNamara

Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

** 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.**

Sponsors

• Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

This event...