Throughout western history women have been assigned a status as cultural observers and social facilitators to men's roles as cultural performers and social actors. This status, however, was not fixed and cultural-social gender barriers could be crossed and moved. Authority in the family, responsibilities in the public sphere, communal activism, economic productivity, education, ritual religious roles, literary and artistic creativity were all forms of cultural capital which could position women at intersections of power and privilege and challenge gender hierarchies. This talk...

Lisa Fagin Davis (The Medieval Academy),
Co-Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in Medieval Studies and Book History

Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History

Charles Rosenberg (History of Science, Harvard)

.Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the History of Medicine Working Group. 

Fabrian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia University)

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group.

Bram de Ridder (University of Leuven)

Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop.

Kendra Field (Tufts University)

Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.

Carlota McAllister (York University)

Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.

Shatema Threadcraft (Rutgers University)

Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past

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Standing Committee on Archaeology

Harvard University

Abstract

The creation, management, sharing, and preservation of digital data and media have gained great...

"Durability: A History of the Future, 1869-1912"
Speaker: Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Commentator: Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: ...

"al Bustani's Arabic Encyclopedia (1870s-1880s) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant"
Speaker: Ilhan Khuri Makdisi, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Commentator: Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University

Speaker:...