Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Nick Patterson RI '17

Nick Patterson is studying how Indo-European, the largest language family on Earth, spread across Eurasia. There is rich genetic data available—including DNA from more than a hundred populations of India and ancient DNA from many relevant areas, including Iran and the Russian steppe.

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Nicholas White, Cambridge University (Emmanuel College)

Penny Fielding, University of Edinburgh

Walter Stephens (Johns Hopkins University)

Cartography Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/old-world-and-new-ca-1500-history-and-geography-and-after-noahs-flood

Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Jiang Sheng, Sichuan University

Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College

Alex Bevilacqua, Harvard Society of Fellows

Timothy Moore, Washington University in St. Louis

Synopsis

Theater in ancient Greece and Rome was emphatically musical: extensive parts of almost all plays were performed to the accompaniment of a wind instrument called the aulos in Greek, tibia in Latin. An essential part of ancient theater’s music was its ludic nature. After examining briefly several examples of this phenomenon from both Greece and Rome, this paper reviews in detail the playful musical patterns of Mostellaria, a comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus.

About the Speaker...

Erika Gaffney, Amsterdam University Press

Early Modern Women’s Studies and Scholarly Book Publishing: Personal Reflections

This round-table discussion is being held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition “The Demise of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991: A 25-Year Retrospective" and as a follow-up to the exhibit's opening panel from November 21st.

Speaker(s): 

Serhii Plokhii,...

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This event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Russia Matters Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Dominic Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College; Fellow of the British Academy

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Michael Hopkins, Professor of History, University of Liverpool (UK)

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Clare Griffin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Minerva Research Group‚ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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