Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a workshop organized by Roger Owen and Adam Mestyan

This workshop aims to historicize violent conflicts in the states of the Post-Mandate territories and to understand the Arabic terminology of violence in a trans-temporal and trans-national framework. In order to do this, we propose three sessions:

1. To problematize the terminology and political theory of civil war in Arabic, from Muslim...

Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

“Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?”

Details can be found here:  https://www.masshist....

Professor Thongchai Winichakul, Professor Emeritus of History,University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Third Annual Stanley J. Tambiah Lecture in Thai Studies

Sponsored by the Thai Studies Program at the Harvard University Asia Center

Jeremy Eichler

Lecturer in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

The Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard presents the first event of the 2016/2017 Academic year:

What Works: Gender Equality by Design

Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Date: Wednesday November 30, 2016 | 12pm to 1.30pm

Location: Knafel...

The Graduate Student Lecture Series of the Department of History of Art and Architecture presents

Mieke Bal

Cultural Theorist, Critic, Video Artist

Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

"Reasonable Doubt" & "Thinking in Film"

A FILM SCREENING AND LECTURE WITH MIEKE BAL

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Hunger Strikes and Affective Politics at the Tule Lake Stockade in 1944

A Lecture by Professor Nayan Shah

Sponsored with generous support from The Donald T. Regan Lecture Fund.

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            Alison LaCroix

            Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago

            Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

            (rsvp to mann@law.harvard.edu to receive the paper)

Public sessions of the European Legal History Workshop

On November 14, Daniel Smail will discuss his paper: "Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe." The workshop meets from 5-7 PM in Wasserstein Hall, Room 3034. To request a copy of the paper, email jminnich@law.harvard.edu.

Speaker: Julian Gewirtz ’13 

Julian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book,...

Please join us as Amy Hollywood, HDS Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, discusses her recent publication, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion.

Laura Nasrallah (HDS), Catherine Brekus (HDS), and Janet Gyatso (HDS) will serve as respondents.

Stories of the victims and survivors of sex trafficking will help us see how the lack of conversations about sex and love drives the sex trafficking industry, as well as how religion and spirituality lead this conversation.

This event is the second seminar in a series of Junior Fellow seminars at CSWR. The event is organized by CSWR resident Evelyn Nam.