Speaker:
Eric Tagliacozzo
Professor of History
Cornell University

Abstract:
This talk looks at three different ways that the colonial state used new technologies to try to pursue the imperial project in maritime Southeast Asia. First, we will look at the role of telegraphs along the coasts of French Indochina in the late nineteenth century. From there, we will analyze the idea of building a trans-oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Kra, in semi-independent Siam (what is today Thailand). Finally, we will also look at the role of lighthouses as Foucauldian instruments of... Read more about "Ghosts in the Machine: Technologies of Imperialism in Maritime Southeast Asia"

Albert Laguna (Yale University)
“On the Comedy of Race” 
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies”

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The authors Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr will join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.

Perry will consider her recent book, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, while Reid-Pharr and Brown-Nagin will share perspectives from their own research, writing, and forthcoming books on, respectively, James Baldwin and Constance Baker Motley.

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Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet

Speaker: Lobsang Yongdan, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bonn

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Abodes of Alien Ancestors: Buddhist Geography and Genealogy in 18th Century Beijing

Speaker: Wen-shing Chou, Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Hunter College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Speaker:  Lan Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College

Abstract: How did monasteries amass wealth in Qing China’s Buddhist Inner Asia? How did the Qing imperial enterprise affect Buddhist praxis on the ground? In this lecture, I will discuss a wide range of practices that brought wealth into Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the eighteenth century. At the center of my study is the making of Beijing’s Yonghegong, which exemplified the evolving practices that contributed to the proliferation of wealthy Buddhist communities across...

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Why Pots (Don't) Matter: Complexity in Bronze Age Eurasia

Speaker: Paula Dupuy, Assistant Professor of Anthropoogy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Dangling Threads to Examine the Channels: Tales of Pulse Diagnosis in Tibetan and Chinese Literature

Speaker: William McGrath, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis

Speaker: Arienne Dwyer, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Indigenous Health in Settler Colonial Societies: Histories of Neglect and Survival in the Twentieth Century

Speaker: Maria K. John, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Presented by the Harvard University Mahindra Center

Getting from the Pleistocene to the Present in the American Southeast: What Is and What Still Could Be

Speaker: Shane Miller, Mississippi State University

Presented by the Harvard University Mahindra Center

Mapping Morrill: How Indian Country Funded America’s Land Grant Universities
Speakers:
Bobby Lee, Cambridge University
Tristan Ahtone, High Country News

Presented by the Harvard University Mahindra Center

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The Department of near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University presents: 

Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands

A lecture with Dr. Miriam Goldstein
(Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature and chair of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of...

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The Program for Islamic Law welcomes students, faculty, and staff back for the new year. Come learn about the program, meet others with similar interests, and more. Refreshments will be served.

Free Lecture and Book Signing

Lukas Rieppell, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History, Brown University

Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of late-nineteenth-century discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. Around the same time, the United States also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and spectacular creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops ...

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