"al Bustani's Arabic Encyclopedia (1870s-1880s) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant"
Speaker: Ilhan Khuri Makdisi, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Commentator: Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University

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Casey Primel, WIGH Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow

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 participants will present current research. Faculty participants will be drawn...

Wrangling Data into Maps - Cambridge - Spring 2017

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February 10, 2017 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm

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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

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Devin E. Naar
Sephardic Studies Program Chair, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Washington

Drawing on his book, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, this presentation will explore the fate of the Jews of Salonica (Thessaloniki)--once home to the largest Sephardic community in the world--as they managed the impact of the collapse of the Ottoman...

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group: 

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Marco Di Giulio

Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Program of Judaic Studies & Italian Department Franklin & Marshall College

This talk will analyze how modern Jewish translations of traditional religious texts into Italian have served as a platform for ethnic self-definition and, more recently, for engaging in forms of identity politics.

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Unlike German Jews, who had generated eight translations of the Bible...

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Kathleen McNamara

Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

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• Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

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Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion:

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Silke Roth

Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton

European women's and feminist movements reflect European (and world) history, along with cultural and political differences. The mobilization of women and feminists in Europe has been shaped by colonialism and post-colonial relations, fascism, the Cold War, varieties of capitalism, the strength of labor...

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Charlotte Cavaillé

Assistant professor of Political Science, Georgetown University

To what extent does material hardship affect political preferences? We argue that preference updating happens at the intersection of contextual pull factors, such as
elite discourse, and individual push factors, such as an individual’s economic conditions. One key implication is that individuals are more likely to translate personal
hardship into higher support for left-wing...

Jews In Modern Europe Study Group

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Michael Berkowitz

Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London

The presentation is based on Berkowitz's current research, conducted most recently at Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the engagement of European Jewry with photography in the interwar period and the Holocaust. This is part of a history of an occupational cohort across Europe that most scholars have been reticent...

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Women's History Seminars

Sexuality of History, History of Sexuality

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Jen Manion, Associate Professor of History, Amherst College

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Susan S....

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

2016–2017

Maury Green Fellow

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Jennifer Scheper Hughes RI '17

At Radcliffe, Jennifer Scheper Hughes is completing a monograph, titled “Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico,” that explores the...

Harvard Book Store welcomes the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard historian and author of A Midwife's Tale LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH for a discussion of her latest book, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870.

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Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome JANE KAMENSKY—Professor of History at Harvard University and author of The Exchange Artist—for a discussion of her latest book, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley.

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Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge of the British empire. A boy comes of age...