Since the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States, a cottage industry of political classification and comparison has emerged. Terms like “fascism,” “authoritarianism,” “kleptocracy” and “demagoguery,” – to name just a few – have become commonplace in our political discourse. But what does it all mean? Are historical analogies, particularly to the European past, useful in trying to understand American politics today? Or is the Trump regime a class unto itself? Historians of Europe, Russia, and International Relations will share their perspectives on...

SPEAKER

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Professor of History, University of Chicago

CONTACTS

Peter E. Gordon
pgordon@fas.harvard.edu

Ethan Kleinberg
ekleinberg@wesleyan.edu

Samuel Moyn
smoyn@law.harvard.edu

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Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. Speakers: Wang Hui on China, David Armitage on the UK and Europe,  Malika Zeghal on the Mideast, Mahdav...

Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)

Laurence Fontaine (CNRS, EHESS)

Gareth Stedman Jones (University of London, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge)

Mahesh Rangarajan (Ashoka University)

This talk has been Cancelled. It may be scheduled at a later date. 

Michael Dawson
University of Chicago

Jane Kamensky
Professor of History
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library

In this lecture, Jane Kamensky, Professor of History...

Join us for a History and Literature Lecture

Kevin Birmingham
Truman Capote Award-winning author of "The Most dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses"

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

discusses

Never Caught:
The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

in conversation with ANNETTE GORDON-REED

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Harvard's Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History DAVID ARMITAGE, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, for a discussion of his latest book, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas.

About Civil Wars

A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of...