Saul Noam Zaritt, Associate Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University

In conversation with Sunny Yudkoff, Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Adriana X. Jacobs, Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature, University of Oxford

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Katrin Kogman-Appel: A Jewish Look at World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, 1375)

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Jewish Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Institut für Jüdische Studien

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When: Oct 26, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

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(IM)POSSIBILITY

Harvard Film & Visual Studies Graduate Conference

October 8–10, 2020

https://www.vesgrad.com/

The graduate program in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University is...

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Talk title: “The Third World before Afro-Asia”

Speaker:  Cindy Ewing (University of Missouri)

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AAAS Professor Brandon Terry will be the featured speaker on Thursday, October 1, 2020, from 1:30-2:30pm (Eastern) as part of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy's signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now.

The series features Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South.   The Fierce Urgency...

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On Friday, October 2, 2020, from 12:00-2:00 (Eastern), AAAS Professor Alejandro de la Fuente will moderate a talk by Professor Devyn Spence Benson from Davidson College entitled ...

Read more about Afrocubanas: Translating Black Cuban Feminisms

The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not “give” women the vote. Rather, it established a negative: that the right to vote could not be abridged on account of sex alone. When the amendment passed, many women were already voting in states that allowed them to do so. Moreover, even after its passage, African Americans in the South remained disfranchised by race; some immigrant women were blocked from voting by national status; and many women in US territories overseas remained disfranchised by the ways the American empire bounded citizenship.

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Speaker: Heather Curtis (Tufts University)

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Read more about Black Suffering and Spiritual Protest in the Age of U.S. Empire

In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic

This paper explores the legacy of ab urbe condita historiography under the Principate. Beginning with Fabius Pictor, historiography was born in Rome as a practice that sought to record the entire timeline of Roman history, yet this traditional mode of writing found both apex and end in Livy. After the Ab Urbe Condita, imperial Latin writers turned to abbreviated formats (i.e. epitomes) to write histories that attempted to record the full Roman timeline. Using Florus’ Epitome as a case study, the paper...

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Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object". Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop. Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuqspzwpGtKqc-gQcsVjIny7xJSIUArV Read more about Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object".

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Paulina Alberto. “Black Legend: “El Negro” Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern Argentina” (forthcoming manuscript), with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Paulina Alberto

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, “Peripheral Freedoms: Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming manuscript), with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Adriana Chira

The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postocolonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press,  2018, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Yuko Miki

 

Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae". Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Dept of English, and the Early Modern History Workshop. Please register here:

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The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020, with author present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event. Read more about Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America, with Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.