Speaker: Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Pennsylvania

Series chaired and moderated by Mariano Siskind, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

In this workshop we will discuss how fiction represented historical transitions to capitalism in rural twentieth-century Latin America. Against commonplace assumptions about the rural as backward, traditional and/or feudal (in contrast with...

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture presents

Pascal Menoret
Renée and Lester Crown Chair in Modern Middle East Studies, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Pascal Menoret completed his PhD in 2008 from the Department of History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He joined NYUAD...

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Middle East Initiative, HKS, and the CMES Middle East Forum present

Martha Meyers
MENA Operations Director, ARK Group

Martha Myers has over 30 years of  experience in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Sultanate of Oman. Her professional experience includes having worked for non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, and donor agencies. She has conceptualized, designed, and managed a full spectrum of...

The Middle East Forum presents

Mohammed Omer
Visiting Researcher, CMES; Palestinian journalist

Contact: Liz Flanagan

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December 9, 2016 - 9:30am to 4:30pm

Leader/Instructor Jeff Blossom

NON-HARVARD REGISTER

Location: Room B129, the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.

Registration Schedule:

1. Registration deadline:

   Tuesday,...

Abstract: Accurate information on the extent and condition of agricultural crops is critical to the formulation and monitoring of food security policies. Remote sensing offers decision makers the ability to look "wide and often", yet in many areas, persistent cloud cover during the growing season reduces the utility of traditional optical remote sensing techniques. This talk presents recent work on the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to map changes in floodplain vegetation in the Tana River Basin in Kenya as well as rice paddy cultivation in...

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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

Simon Erlanger
Professor of Judaic Studies and Theology, University of Luzern

In this talk Professor Erlanger will discuss the 1946 22nd Zionist Congress in Basel, the first after the holocaust and the last such gathering before the establishment of the state of Israel.

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In his memoirs "Trial and Error" Chaim Weitzmann...

Visiting Scholars' Seminar: New Research on Europe

Eva Piirimäe
Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Tartu, Estonia; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Johann Gottfried Herder and Immanuel Kant were both critics of despotism, imperialism and colonialism yet held sharply diverging views on epistemology, anthropology, and the foundations of morality. From 1785 on Herder also developed a sustained though...

Graham Allison (Moderator)
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Niall Ferguson
Board of Directors, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Mary Elise Sarotte
Visiting Professor of Government and History, Harvard University

Arne Westad
S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
 

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Ozan Arslan
Department of Political Science and International Relations,
Izmir University of Economics
&
Hüseyin Oylupınar
2015 Shklar and USF Fellow,
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Monday, Dec. 5, 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Room S-020,Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South,
Harvard University,
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

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Join us for a student-led teach-in: 

Serhii Plokhy

discusses

The Man with the Poison Gun:
A Cold War Spy Story

This event includes a book signing

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Nick Turse (contributing writer at The Intercept)

“Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”

Warren Center Occasional Speakers Series