Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center 

Yurika Wakamatsu, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Japanese Art History, Harvard 2016), Harvard University

Details: In Pursuit of Reclusion: Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913) and the Gendering of Literati Art in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University  

Note, the room above has been changed (was orignially the Geological Lecture Hall).

William Wyckoff, a leading historical geographer of the American West, will be at Harvard on April 3^rd for an evening lecture (4-6pm) titled, “Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the American West,” and a lunchtime discussion (12-1:15pm) of his recent book How to Read the American West: A Field Guide. The lunch meeting will be a discussion of Chapter 6 of that work, “Landscapes of Federal Largesse”...

Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series 

Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be...

City and Empire in Seleucid Asia Minor: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea

Introduction

This conference is a capstone event for the first phase of the Hellenistic...

Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Presents:

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Asia Center Seminar Series

Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research is on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions. Areas of particular interest include the history of public health and poverty, the history of migration, and environmental history. His most recent work has been on the Bay of Bengal as a region connecting South and Southeast Asia. He has a PhD in History (2005) from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Research Fellow of Trinity College (2004-6).

Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Seminar

Speaker:

Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Harvard University

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Economic History Workshop

Speaker: 

Richard Hornbeck, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate....

Speaker(s): 

Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College; Center Associate, Davis Center

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

SPEAKER

Benjamin Frommer
Professor of History, Northwestern University

In 1938 the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia were full and free citizens of a democratic Czechoslovak Republic. In the country’s western regions Jews lived interspersed among gentiles and intermarried to a degree greater than...

CES Dissertation Workshop

SPEAKER

Liat Spiro
Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

CONTACT

Gili Kliger
kliger@g.harvard.edu

SPEAKER

Kristen Loveland
PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

SPEAKER
Aaron Donaghy
EU Marie Curie Global Fellow, Harvard, Cornell & University of Nottingham; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Recent decades have seen international history approaches dominate the study of American foreign relations, and the late Cold War. Historians have assessed U.S. and Soviet policy at a state-to- state level, or through the dispositions of leaders, dividing attention between Washington and Moscow within the global context of the 1980s. With the end of the conflict, and the onset of...