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...

The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) is sponsoring a talk by Onur Ulas Ince, IGLP Faculty and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. His paper is part of a larger book project...

GRAD STUDENTS ONLY, NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard presents
a lunchtime talk by

Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Chair, Department of History, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Whose Humanity? Gender, Humanitarianism, and the Spanish-American War

You are welcome to participate in What’s Next? Exploring New Ways to Use Digital Early American Manuscripts, an unconference that will bring together researchers, teachers, technologists, librarians and archivists, and others with an interest in discussing and planning for new ways to use digital manuscripts, particularly those related to 17th and 18th century North America, for teaching and research.
 
The meeting is Wednesday, November 16, 2016, from 9:00  am - 4:00 pm at the Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University....

'HOUSING FOR ALL?' 3-PART SYMPOSIUM

-a new initiative by the CHS, meeting you in the City

This fall, the Cambridge Historical Society presents 3 conversations

about the past, present, and future of affordable housing in Cambridge. The question, 'Housing for All?' will be posed to knowledgeable experts and to Cantabrigians like you. Bring your stories and questions to the conversations. 

Conversation 2, "What have been the successes and failures of affordable housing planning and activism?" 

Thursday 10...

'HOUSING FOR ALL?' 3-PART SYMPOSIUM

-a new initiative by the CHS, meeting you in the City

This fall, the Cambridge Historical Society presents 3 conversations

about the past, present, and future of affordable housing in Cambridge. The question, 'Housing for All?' will be posed to knowledgeable experts and to Cantabrigians like you. Bring your stories and questions to the conversations. 

Conversation 1, "How did we get here? What are the challenges? Who is the 'we'?" 

Thursday 10/13, 6-8pm, ...

On August 31, the Brazilian Senate voted to oust President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party. The impeachment process was controversial, and many consider it to have been a parliamentary coup d’Etat. The purpose of this panel is to analyze the historical and social causes of President Rousseff’s fall, as well as the prospects for the country, now ruled by a right wing government coalition not chosen in democratic elections.

Panelists include Dr. Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History at Harvard...

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October 14 - 15, 2016

The interregional arena of the Indian Ocean has emerged as a connected—if not unified—field of historical study. Past projects have explored and explained webs of relationships that bound together the peoples of South Asia, Middle East, East and South Africa, and Southeast and East Asia. Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith now bring together the best historians of the Indian Ocean to offer a grand synthesis of the scholarship of the past few decades, resulting in a two-volume project called The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean. The conference will allow the...