The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with Dr. Jessica Marglin of the University of Southern California, entitled Nationality on Trial: Jews and Legal Belonging between Italy and Tunisia, 1873-1883. Please see the attached flyer.

Where: Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201
6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

When: Thursday, October 17th, 4:00pm

More information: Jessica Marglin is associate professor of Religion and...

Speaker: Keith Wailoo

Pain: A Political History

In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain has defined the line between liberals and conservatives from just after World War II to the present. From disabling pain to end-of-life pain to fetal pain, the battle over whose pain is real and who deserves relief has created stark ideological divisions at the bedside, in politics, and in the courts.

Beginning with the return of soldiers after World War II and fierce medical and political disagreements about...

16 BARS is a feature length music documentary that offers a rare glimpse at the human stories — and songs — that are locked away in our nation’s jails and prisons. The film follows a unique rehabilitation effort in the Richmond City Justice Center that invites inmates to write and record original music. In the jail’s makeshift recording studio, 4 men collaborate on an album with a Grammy-winning recording artist, Todd “Speech” Thomas, from the iconic activist hip-hop group Arrested Development. As the creative process unfurls, each of these...

Presenter: Seyram Avle, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

From the height of the copy-cat manufacturing years to the current era of big tech represented by the likes of Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, etc., Chinese technology has contributed to much of the ambivalence around the country’s perceived global ascendancy. Particularly in the global south where China’s economic activity favors infrastructure building, Chinese tech firms have come to represent both innovation and expediency, even as they are perceived as...

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibers, plants supplied materials with key roles in victory. Author and botanist Judith Sumner will speak of the many plants that were incorporated into wartime safety materials, diet and rations, and even bombers.

Fee Free, but registration requested. REGISTER

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Speaker: Danielle N. Boaz
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

(See event flyer here)

Speaker: Danielle N. Boaz
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

(See event flyer here)

Lisa Duggan's Distinguished Lecture in History & Literature will take place on Thursday, October 3 at 6 pm in Barker 110.

Lisa Duggan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Professor Duggan served as President of the American Studies Association (2014-2015) and has written extensively about modern U.S. cultural, social, and political...

“Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi”
SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES

Speaker: Sunil Kumar
Professor, History of Medieval India, History Department Head, Delhi University

"The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad"
SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES

Speaker: Sunil Kumar
Professor, History of Medieval India, History Department Head, Delhi University

“Habsburg Alba Amicorum in Ottoman Constantinople”

Robyn Radway 
Assistant Professor of History, Central European University

“Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates”

Jochen Sokoly
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

“Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra”

Ann Shafer
Independent scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY-FIT; Harvard AKPIA Associate

“Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References”

Müjde Dila Gümüş
Researcher, Istanbul University; Harvard AKPIA Associate

"Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics"

Nadia Ali
Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University