Turkey in the Modern World

Speaker:

Umit Kurt, Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard 
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine,...

Thurs. October 26 (from 5-7 pm)
Fri. October 27 (9 am-5:30pm)

Conference: The Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe, Harvard University 26–27 October

A two-day international conference on the development of Byzantine scholarship in early modern Europe. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and a range of papers on the art historical, historiographical, ethnographic...

See the CES website for updates.

SPEAKER

Lydia Walker
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

Contact:
Gili Kliger (kliger@g.harvard.edu)

Hosted by: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity at the Institute of Politics

Join the Politics of Race and Ethnicity for a conversation about Muslim narratives in Trump's America

Professor Ali H. Asani is a member of the Harvard University Class of 1977 and a current professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures. Prof. Asani will be focusing on Trump rhetoric's impact on Muslim communities and how they are fighting back.

To engage even more with the Muslim community beyond this conversation, please stay in touch with the...

On Thursday, February 2^nd, Dr. Michael Dee will speak on “Solar Storms, Tree Rings and Astrochronology: New Radiocarbon Research from Oxford” from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm in CGIS South Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.  Dr. Dee is currently at the Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford / Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit.  The workshop will be chaired by Noreen Tuross, Landon T. Clay Professor of...

Featuring Roundtable Participants

Harvard’s CORNEL WEST

Filmmaker MARTIN DOBLMEIER

Project Head ANDREW FINSTUEN

Moderator HEALAN GASTON

 Join us for a screening and discussion of a riveting new film about Reinhold...

Join the Ash Center and the Institute of Politics for a conversation with: 

• Norman L. Eisen

Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Special Assistant and Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, 2009-2011

U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2011 – 2014)

• Archon Fung

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

• Mary Graham

Co-Director, Transparency Policy Project, Ash...

“The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Dramatically Increasing Diversity at the PhD Level in Science and Engineering”

Keivan Stassun

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, February 15 at 4 PM

Pfizer Lecture Hall — B23, Mallinckrodt Building

12 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

...

The degree to which sports—broadly defined—permeates societies and cultures has never been greater, making it a revealing lens through which to understand many contemporary issues. The Radcliffe Institute conference “Game Changers: Sports, Gender, and Society” will explore the relationship between sports and gender in the United States and around the world.

The conference begins with an arts performance and conversation on Thursday evening: scenes from a work in progress by...

Game Changers: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Join us on March 30, 2017, to write women athletes into Wikipedia. Entries about women are underrepresented in Wikipedia, the world’s largest online source of information. We will write new entries about women athletes and women’s sports, supplement current entries, and begin to address the imbalance.

...

Fellows' Presentation, Lectures

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series and the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series. 

Lecture by Chris Bowler...

Gender and Sexuality

Nancy Krieger, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Abstract

A lurking biological essentialism infuses contemporary research on “health disparities.” Mindful of the long reach of early 20th century...

Modernism

Maria del Pilar Blanco, University of Oxford

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World

Kristen Abbott Bennett, Stonehill College

Erica Zimmer, Boston University

Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Johanna Hanink, Brown University