Public sessions of the European Legal History Workshop

On November 14, Daniel Smail will discuss his paper: "Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe." The workshop meets from 5-7 PM in Wasserstein Hall, Room 3034. To request a copy of the paper, email jminnich@law.harvard.edu.

Speaker: Julian Gewirtz ’13 

Julian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book,...

Please join us as Amy Hollywood, HDS Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, discusses her recent publication, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion.

Laura Nasrallah (HDS), Catherine Brekus (HDS), and Janet Gyatso (HDS) will serve as respondents.

Stories of the victims and survivors of sex trafficking will help us see how the lack of conversations about sex and love drives the sex trafficking industry, as well as how religion and spirituality lead this conversation.

This event is the second seminar in a series of Junior Fellow seminars at CSWR. The event is organized by CSWR resident Evelyn Nam.

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was...

Speaker: Robert Karl, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University; Santander Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS

From land restitution to the role of victims’ voices in reconciliation, Colombia’s ongoing peace process has its parallels in largely forgotten events that transpired more than a half-century ago. This talk examines what Colombian history can – and cannot – tell us about the...

Speaker: Alejandra Uslenghi, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University

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

More information forthcoming....

Come learn about the fall 2017 DRCLAS study abroad program in Havana, Cuba!

Note: Info session will take place at the Office of International Education, 77 Dunster St.

Speaker: Benjamin A. Cowan, Assistant Professor, History and Art History, George Mason University

This research draws on previously untapped archives to argue that Cold War struggles against “subversion” must be understood in cultural terms, as a reaction to the consequences—real and perceived—of modernization. Inscribing Brazil’s Cold War military dictatorship (1964-1985) into a century-...

 Annual List Lecture for Jewish Studies

Professor Guy Stroumsa 

will deliver this year's Albert and Vera List Jewish Studies Lecture on the topic:

"Christianity and the God of Israel: 

Henri Bergson, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas."

Thursday, 3 November, 2016

5:15 – 7pm

Location...

Jean Wyllys is an Afro-Brazilian, openly gay Federal Congressman from the state of Rio de Janeiro, representing the Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL). Wyllys has a history of involvement in movements for social justice in Brazil, first as a youth activist in the progressive wing of the Brazilian Catholic Church and later as a partner of the LBGT, Black and Women’s movements in Brazil. As a Federal Congressman, he is one of the most visible national figures in the fight against homophobia, intolerance and religious fundamentalism...

Adria Lawrence
Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University

When European imperial powers expanded into Africa, Asia, and the Americas, they began ruling diverse populations that differed from them along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. To manage this diversity, they articulated two distinct ideologies: direct and indirect rule. Advocates of direct rule envisioned a colonial project that would modernize and transform colonial territories; proponents of indirect rule favored preserving tradition...

Philipp Ther
Professor of History and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

The talk deals with the intellectual history, the political practice and the social consequences of neoliberalism. The main pillars of this ideology are an idealization of unrestrained, free markets, in the belief that they create an equilibrium for all sorts of market imbalances, an irrational faith in the rationality of market agents, and a libertarian antipathy toward the state, as expressed in the myth of “big government”. It also...