Jews of Russia/Eastern Europe Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Antony Polonsky, Serhii Plokhii, Marta Daria Olynyk, Harvey Budner, ...

Jews of Russia/Eastern Europe Seminar

The paper discusses the artistic career of Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945), Boris Pasternak’s father, against the background of the debates about the possibility and the nature of Jewish art in the beginning of 20th century. It analyzes Leonid Pasternak’s role and place in the crystallization of Jewish national self-consciousness that expressed in the early stages of the Zionist movement in Russia and Europe.

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Literature and Culture Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Gabriella Safran, Professor and Director, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Stanford University

Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard University Department of...

Throughout western history women have been assigned a status as cultural observers and social facilitators to men's roles as cultural performers and social actors. This status, however, was not fixed and cultural-social gender barriers could be crossed and moved. Authority in the family, responsibilities in the public sphere, communal activism, economic productivity, education, ritual religious roles, literary and artistic creativity were all forms of cultural capital which could position women at intersections of power and privilege and challenge gender hierarchies. This talk...

Lisa Fagin Davis (The Medieval Academy),
Co-Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in Medieval Studies and Book History

Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History

Charles Rosenberg (History of Science, Harvard)

.Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the History of Medicine Working Group. 

Fabrian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia University)

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group.

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