Contending with issues of ephemerality and loss within the geopolitical sphere of late-20th century South America, the artworks on view in Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now find deep resonance in the groundbreaking display next door at the Harvard Art Museums’ exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning. Curators Mary Schneider Enriquez and Liz Munsell will tour the two exhibitions in tandem, discussing issues of endurance, temporality, and the political power of the artist within Latin America then and now.

The ...

Email Peter X. Accardo to register. accardo@fas.harvard.edu

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     You are cordially invited to the annual

                   BOK CENTER
           HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE

           Thursday, December 8th
                 2:00pm - 3:30pm

            Science Center Room 318

Please join us to ...

This talk employs Theodor Herzl’s relationship with eastern European Jewry as a case study of the social construction of charisma and the legitimization of leadership. There was considerable tension between Theodor Herzl and the Eastern European Zionist activists who had founded the Lovers of Zion movement more than a decade before Herzl burst upon the scene. They viewed Herzl with a mixture of veneration, envy, suspicion, and derision. Yet it was Herzl, not they, who captured the attention of the masses, dazzled them with his very strangeness, and replenished their self-...

Fellows Seminar

The 2016–2017 theme of this interdisciplinary seminar series is "Ideas, Ideologies, and Power: Eurasia Past and Present,"and is coordinated by Professor ...

Fellows Seminar

The 2016–2017 theme of this interdisciplinary seminar series is "Ideas, Ideologies, and Power: Eurasia Past and Present,"and is coordinated by Professor ...

Interested in Latin America? Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region this summer! Gain internship experience, study, or participate in experiential learning through immersive programs offered between June - August, 2017.

Programs Offered:
• Summer Internship Program (SIP) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico & Peru
• Health & Spanish Immersion Program...

Speaker: Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Pennsylvania

Series chaired and moderated by Mariano Siskind, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

In this workshop we will discuss how fiction represented historical transitions to capitalism in rural twentieth-century Latin America. Against commonplace assumptions about the rural as backward, traditional and/or feudal (in contrast with...

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture presents

Pascal Menoret
Renée and Lester Crown Chair in Modern Middle East Studies, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Pascal Menoret completed his PhD in 2008 from the Department of History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He joined NYUAD...

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Middle East Initiative, HKS, and the CMES Middle East Forum present

Martha Meyers
MENA Operations Director, ARK Group

Martha Myers has over 30 years of  experience in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Sultanate of Oman. Her professional experience includes having worked for non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, and donor agencies. She has conceptualized, designed, and managed a full spectrum of...

The Middle East Forum presents

Mohammed Omer
Visiting Researcher, CMES; Palestinian journalist

Contact: Liz Flanagan

REGISTER

December 9, 2016 - 9:30am to 4:30pm

Leader/Instructor Jeff Blossom

NON-HARVARD REGISTER

Location: Room B129, the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.

Registration Schedule:

1. Registration deadline:

   Tuesday,...