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2017 Jan 30

WIGH Seminar: Tâmis Parron, "Capitalism and Slavery: World Economy, the British Empire and the End of the Slave Trade to Brazil"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Speaker: Tâmis Parron, Volkswagen Global Fellow, WIGH; Postdoctoral Fellow, Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950A, Approaches to Global History, and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to the interested public during which students and faculty...

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2016 Oct 20

Hutchins Center: Nathan I Huggins Lecture 3: "Pnubs, an Egyptian Foundation in the Southern Lands"

4:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Charles Bonnet, Professor, University of Geneva; Membre de l’Institut de France

The Double Capital of Kush: Kerma and Dukki Gel

Tuesday, October 18th: The Urban Development of the Nubian City of Kerma

Wednesday, October 19th: Dukki Gel, an African Town in Nubia

Thursday, October 20th: Pnubs, an Egyptian Foundation in the Southern Lands

 

2016 Oct 19

Hutchins Center: Nathan I Huggins Lecture 2 "Dukki Gel, an African Town in Nubia"

4:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Charles Bonnet, Professor, University of Geneva; Membre de l’Institut de France

The Double Capital of Kush: Kerma and Dukki Gel

Tuesday, October 18th: The Urban Development of the Nubian City of Kerma

Wednesday, October 19th: Dukki Gel, an African Town in Nubia

Thursday, October 20th: Pnubs, an Egyptian Foundation in the Southern Lands

 

2016 Oct 18

Hutchins Center: Nathan I Huggins Lecture 1 "The Urban Development of the Nubian City of Kerma"

4:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Thompson Room (110), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge

 

 

Charles Bonnet, Professor, University of Geneva; Membre de l’Institut de France

The Double Capital of Kush: Kerma and Dukki Gel

Tuesday, October 18th: The Urban Development of the Nubian City of Kerma

Wednesday, October 19th: Dukki Gel, an African Town in Nubia

Thursday, October 20th: Pnubs, an Egyptian Foundation in the Southern Lands

 

 

2016 Oct 26

Radcliffe: Using Genetics to Understand the Origin and Spread of the Indo-Europeans

4:00pm

Location: 

Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Nick Patterson RI '17

Nick Patterson is studying how Indo-European, the largest language family on Earth, spread across Eurasia. There is rich genetic data available—including DNA from more than a hundred populations of India and ancient DNA from many relevant areas, including Iran and the Russian steppe.

Free and open to the public....

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