CMES is pleased to present the 2017 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Martha Myers
Former Country Director, Save the Children--Syria

Martha Myers has lived and worked in the Middle East for the better part of the last four decades.  Although she has worked in Oman, Yemen,...

Hosted by the Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series. 

ORGANIZER(S): Harvard University Department of Anthropology
EVENT WEBSITE: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/event/mary-prendergast

Join us for a public conversation with Harvard University’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. The event will begin with a screening of a short clip from Professor Gate’s PBS film series, “Africa’s Great Civilizations”. Professor Gates will then speak about the film’s relevance to questions of race in America today. Following his presentation, there will be a panel discussion with Professor Linda Heywood and Professor John Thornton. The program will end with questions from the audience.

ORGANIZER...

Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series

Professor Bernard Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center with generous support from the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund.

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Descried by the Lancet as "microcosm of global health", Southeast Asia features low, middle and high income economies within a small geographic region with multiple shared borders. In conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) in 2017, the Future of Health in Southeast Asia will bring together an exciting range of speakers to discuss the challenges and opportunites facing public health in the region.

Tess Dizon-De Vega, Consul General (New York), Republic of...

Chikamoto Kensuke, Associate Professor of Japanese medieval literature, Nagoya University; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/Discussant: Ryuichi Abe, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Details: Tracing the Prophetic Narratives of a Buddhist Prince: The Construction of Myths and Legends of Shōtoku Taishi in 11^th-...

The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia.

Speakers: William Kirby, Mireya Solis, Mark Wu

Moderated by: Tarun Khana

Chaired by: Andrew Gordon

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, the Harvard University Asia Center, the South Asia Institute, the Korea Institute, the U.S.-Japan Program, and the Reischauer Institute

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Yenching Book Talk

Afternoon Tea with the Author of Shinto: A History

Helen Hardacre, Author; Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Details: Writing the History of Shinto

Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Library

Reischauer Lecture Series 

Empire and Righteous Nation: 60 Years of China-Korea Relations

Speaker: Odd Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University

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The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center presents:

Tiya Miles
Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan; Author of
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
(2015); Founder of ECO Girls, an environmental and cultural project for girls in urban Southeast Michigan

The Environment Forum will also host a luncheon for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students with Professor Miles on Thursday, May 4, at noon in Barker Center 133. If you can attend the...

Cosponsored Event

Speaker:

Purnima Dhavan,  Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in History at University of Washington

Moderators:
Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persian & Indian Literatures at Boston University
Neelam Khoja, Ph.D. Candidate Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies at Harvard University

Lahore, the major urban hub and occasional seasonal capital of the Mughal Empire, has a well-documented history of Persian...

March for Science

April 22, Science Center Plaza

Featuring remarks by 

President Drew Faust 

and

Prof. Naomi Oreskes

9.30 – 11am: Rally on campus

Speakers...

Attendance is open to the public, but as seating is limited, RSVPs are requested (or to hhsiung AT post.harvard.edu)

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CONVERSATIONS IN THE OBSERVATORIO

This round table event focuses on the racial and linguistic ‘encuentro’ that came to shape Mexican society beginning in the 16^th century when Spaniards, Indigenous peoples and Africans met and mixed in New Spain. Acknowledging that 2017-2021 mark the 500^th anniversaries of some of the key events of the Spanish colonial project in the Americas as described in Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s True History of the Conquest of New Spain, our round table looks at these events through the...

Reception at 5:00pm

Free and open to the public.

Registration is required. Register online now through Eventbrite or email us at ...