2016 S.T. Lee Lecture

The Harvard Kennedy School Office of Alumni Relations and Resource Development and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation invite you to the 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture, presented by Rana Mitter, Professor of History and Politics of Modern China...

Rethinking Translation

Stephen Owen, Harvard University

Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Joel Christensen, Brandeis University

Buddhist Studies Forum
Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness: A Forgotten Treasure of the Great Perfection, Its Authorship and Historical Significance
Cosponsored...

Medieval Studies
Stephen Mitchell, Harvard University
The (Real) Mother of Dragons
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

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...