History Graduate Student Association Annual

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The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~int-hist/seminarseries.shtml

 co-sponsored with the Colloquium on Intellectual and Cultural History

"The Chicago World Constitution (1948) and the Quest for Post-war Order"

Or Rosenboim...

Join Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale, as he discusses the historical lessons learned from anti-authoritarian movements in 20th century Europe. Moshik Temkin, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, HKS, will moderate the event. 

About the Speaker

Timothy Snyder is the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, specializing in the history of central and eastern Europe. Born in 1969 in southwestern Ohio and a graduate of Centerville High School, he received his B.A. from Brown University and his...

Matthew Hersch (Harvard, History of Science).

The Harvard STS Circle is co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact Name:
Shana Ashar
sts@hks.harvard.edu...

Speaker: Ateya Khorakiwala (Harvard, GSD)

Elena Boeck,
Dumbarton Oaks

Grozny Blues follows a few people around Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya where daily life is defined by political repression, constricting customs, forced Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history. The film revolves around...

Speaker(s): 

Anna Graber, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager, IAAS ’16 – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Panelists:

Jace DeCory (Lakota Sioux and Black Hills State University)
Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux and University of New Mexico)
Lewis Grass Rope (Lower Brule Sioux)
Chase Iron Eyes (Standing Rock Sioux)
Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)
Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon)

...

Albert Woodfox and Robert King were exonerated after spending decades imprisoned in Angola Penitentiary (formerly Angola Plantation) in Louisiana. King spent 29 years in solitary confinement before his release in 2001. Woodfox spent 41 years in solitary confinement before his release in 2016. The third member of the Angola 3, Herman Wallace, passed away in 2013 days after being released. All three were placed in long-term solitary confinement because of their role in forming a chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Angola.

Woodfox and King continue...

Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe

Christine Zabel – Postdoctoral Faculty Member, University of Duisburg-Essen; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

About

This talk will discuss 17th and 18th century ideas of uncertainty and possible knowledge of future events. An ‘epistemology of the uncertain’ had emerged by the end of the 17th century. By the mid-18th century it had been applied to economics and finance and transformed into a 'political economy of speculation.' The talk will focus especially on the plans to reform the French trade...

Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Chair: Professor Sun-Joo Kim, Director, Korea Institute; Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

Discussants: Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Asia Center, Korea Institute, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series

John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: American and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center