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2016 May 13

Davis Center: "Lysenko's Ghost and Soviet Science: Has Today's Field of Molecular Biology Changed Our Perspective?"

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
Speaker(s): 

Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center...

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2016 May 11

CMES: "Coup D’Etat In Iran? Revisiting 1921 And 1953, And The Problem Of Modern Iranian Historiography"

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The CMES Director's Series presents

Yann Richard
Professor Emeritus, director, l’Institut d’études iraniennes, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

Iranian sources do not come readily available when a major political change brings about a return to authoritarian rule, as was the case in February 1921 or August 1953. The nationalistic discourse provides misleading answers by blaming foreign interference. A close analysis dismantles conspiracy theories. Where is the truth? This talk will present newly published documents...

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2016 May 02

CMES: "Order Of Volatility: Wealth, Power And Death In The Ottoman Empire, 1450-1830"

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

Sohbet-i Osmani presents

Ali Yaycioglu
Ali Yaycioglu is a historian of the Ottoman Empire intersecting Early-Modern Europe and the Muslim World. His book, Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University Press, 2016) is an attempt to rethink the Ottoman experience within the global context of the revolutionary age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book examines institutional transformations, political crises and settlements for reform in the Ottoman Empire. His current book...

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2016 May 11

CES: "The French Suburban Revolts of 2005: Citizenship and Politics in Working-Class Neighborhoods"

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
This presentation will discuss the nature and the legacy of the revolts in the French banlieues ten years after. It will analyze its political impacts, not merely in public policy terms, but in terms of mobilization and policy debates. It will focus particularly on the ACLEFEU collective, created in Clichy sous Bois, where the revolts began, a movement that emerged during and after the revolts. Their political effects will be discussed in a broader context: how dynamics of recognition in the cultural sphere affects subjectivities that are forged.
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2016 Apr 22

Archaeology: "Breaking the 100 Year Limit in Radiocarbon Resolution for Archeological Chronologies: the View from the Excavation and from the Laboratory"

11:00am

Location: 

Tozzer Building Rm. 203, Divinity Ave. Cambridge

The Harvard Archaeology Program Seminar Series Presents

"Breaking the 100 Year Limit in Radiocarbon Resolution for Archeological Chronologies: The View from the Excavation and From the Laboratory...

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2016 Apr 28

Instituto Cervantes: "Spain on the Edge of American Revolution"

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Observatorio. 2 Arrow St. 4th floor. Cambridge

 CONVERSATIONS IN THE OBSERVATORY:

SPAIN ON THE EDGE OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION

While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the continent was even more fraught. In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain’s strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with the powerful Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek...

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2016 Apr 29

Kennedy School: The Molecularization of Identity: Science and Subjectivity in the 21st Century (*Friday's room has changed, see below)

Fri - Sat, May 4 to May 5, 9:00am - 6:00pm

Location: 

See Schedule Below

The Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School

 presents the conference

 The Molecularization of Identity:

Science and Subjectivity in the 21st Century

 Organized by  Ruha Benjamin (...

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2016 May 04

Davis Center: Anti-Economics in Russian Realism: Action and Work in the Stories of Nikolai Leskov

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street,

Andrea Zink, University Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Visiting Scholar, Davis Center

Russian classical literature is famous for its idlers, Oblomov being the most widely known and beloved example. The heroes’ hesitation or inability to act goes hand in hand with a conspiciously long absence of the subjects of work and labor in Russian...

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