SPEAKER

Kathleen McNamara

Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

Sponsors

• Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

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Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion:

SPEAKER

Silke Roth

Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton

European women's and feminist movements reflect European (and world) history, along with cultural and political differences. The mobilization of women and feminists in Europe has been shaped by colonialism and post-colonial relations, fascism, the Cold War, varieties of capitalism, the strength of labor...

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Charlotte Cavaillé

Assistant professor of Political Science, Georgetown University

To what extent does material hardship affect political preferences? We argue that preference updating happens at the intersection of contextual pull factors, such as
elite discourse, and individual push factors, such as an individual’s economic conditions. One key implication is that individuals are more likely to translate personal
hardship into higher support for left-wing...

Jews In Modern Europe Study Group

SPEAKER

Michael Berkowitz

Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London

The presentation is based on Berkowitz's current research, conducted most recently at Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the engagement of European Jewry with photography in the interwar period and the Holocaust. This is part of a history of an occupational cohort across Europe that most scholars have been reticent...

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Women's History Seminars

Sexuality of History, History of Sexuality

MODERATOR:

Jen Manion, Associate Professor of History, Amherst College

PANELISTS:

Susan S....

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

2016–2017

Maury Green Fellow

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Jennifer Scheper Hughes RI '17

At Radcliffe, Jennifer Scheper Hughes is completing a monograph, titled “Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico,” that explores the...

Harvard Book Store welcomes the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard historian and author of A Midwife's Tale LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH for a discussion of her latest book, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870.

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Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome JANE KAMENSKY—Professor of History at Harvard University and author of The Exchange Artist—for a discussion of her latest book, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley.

About A Revolution in Color

Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge of the British empire. A boy comes of age...

Contending with issues of ephemerality and loss within the geopolitical sphere of late-20th century South America, the artworks on view in Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now find deep resonance in the groundbreaking display next door at the Harvard Art Museums’ exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning. Curators Mary Schneider Enriquez and Liz Munsell will tour the two exhibitions in tandem, discussing issues of endurance, temporality, and the political power of the artist within Latin America then and now.

The ...

Email Peter X. Accardo to register. accardo@fas.harvard.edu

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