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Our Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellows will be offering brief presentations of their work and participating in a discussion.

Sara Awartani
“Solidarities of Liberation, Visions of Empire: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the US Imperial...

David Hollinger (University of California, Berkeley)

To access Prof. Hollinger’s pre-circulated paper, please email joshua_mejia@fas.harvard.edu

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Speaker: Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Naval Postgraduate School

In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Front. The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era, and yet this huge industrial war machine,...

Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington

Examining a wide range of cultural products and genres from the late nineteenth century to the present, this talk traces the evolution of the vernacular myths and popular fantasies about Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799). As China’s cultural economy and political climate transforms overtime, new stories and myths about Qianlong emerge to satisfy the changing desires of the audience as well as the political authorities. These popular cultural products have gradually...

Following the murder of George Floyd in May, cities not only in the United States but also in Europe erupted in demonstrations challenging police violence and racist legacies.

In the United Kingdom, activists removed a statue honoring a famous slaveholder, Edward Colston, and threw it in the River Avon. In the United States, activists projected Black Lives Matter and other images onto the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. In France, President Emmanuel Macron tried to stave off similar movements by preemptively declaring that the Republic would "erase no trace or...

Fascism encroaching on democracy -- the American populace riven with discord between ultranationalists and advocates of world responsibilities – public information warped by big lies—these current menaces echo perils of the era from the first through the second world war. Drawing from their recent books Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home and The...

By the early 1980s, a new political landscape was taking shape that would fundamentally influence American society and politics in the decades to come. That year, the long-standing effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment—championed by suffragist Alice Paul and introduced to Congress in 1923—ran aground, owing in significant measure to the activism of women who pioneered a new brand of conservatism. The power and organizational energies of conservative women provided one more proof that the suffragists’ notion of a universal women’s voting “bloc” was an illusion. But in the Reagan era...

The passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 marked one culmination of a long civil rights movement that began in the wake of the American Civil War and gathered steam in the early 20th century, long before the Montgomery bus boycotts and the emergent leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. inaugurated the best-known phase of the movement. Designed to restore the intention of the 15th Amendment, the VRA invalidated poll taxes, literacy tests, and other prerequisites and practices that had been used to disfranchise African American women and men in the states of the former Confederacy...

The United Nations and International Order: 75 Years On

Jane Hong, Occidental College 
Jamie Martin, Georgetown University
Mira Siegelberg, University of Cambridge
Lydia Walker, University of London

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Warren Center Presents: a Pre-Election Conversation with Latosha Brown (Black Voters Matter) Moderated by Jordan Camp (Warren Center Affiliate)

Cosponsored with the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School

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In solidarity with the peaceful protests against Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus, a small group of graduate students of the Slavic Department at Harvard will be performing a reading of “Insulted. Belarus(sia),” a new topical play by Andrei Kureichik. 

The event will be live streamed via youtube on Wednesday, October 7, 5-7pm. 

A discussion with the author and translator will follow. 

No previous knowledge of the Belarusian protests or history is necessary. The play—performed in English—speaks for itself. 
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Ahmed al-Rahim, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia

Co-sponsor: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

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Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair in the History of Art, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

Abstract: Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the late Ottoman period. While manuscript paintings and compositions mounted on wooden boards have been the subject of scholarly inquiry, an relatively unknown type of hilye production involves the insertion of verbal icons into glass bottles. Today, three such “hilye ...

Garrett Davidson, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim World Studies, College of Charleston

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