Global Fellows’ Presentation:

 Exile as Imperial Practice. Penal transportation in Western Siberia, 1870-1900
Zhanna Popova, WIGH Global Fellow; PhD Candidate in History, International Institute of Social History and the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 Aging Population in Modern New York City: A Global Perspective
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Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences

HUCE hosts a  panel discussion on "Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences" featuring:

• Pamela Templer, Biology, Boston University;
• Fredrik Albritton Jonsson,...

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2015–2016 lecture series. 

On May 4, 2016, at 6:15 pm at the Harvard Faculty Club, Cecily J. Hilsdale (McGill University) will present “Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Manuscript Materiality...

Monday, April 25 @ 6pm

Room 113, Sever Hall

This event will be...

Criticism and Theory in an Age of Populism:

The 40th Anniversary Conference of the School of Criticism and Theory

Friday, April 29, 2016

Thompson Room (110), Barker Center

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

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Speakers: 
Attorney Martin B. Gold
Instrumental in securing adoption of congressional resolutions expressing regret for the Chinese exclusion laws

Karen Li, Miss Chinatown USA 2014, Harvard 2018

Lelund Cheung, Cambridge City Councilor

Nam Pham, Assistant Secretary of Business Development & International Trade at Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development

Lisa Wong, Former...

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Steven Pinker, Harvard University

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Please join Jelani Cobb, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, contributor to The New Yorker, and recipient of the 2016 Jay College of Criminal Justice Trailblazer award, along with Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer with the Harvard Kennedy School and former Deputy Secretary for Public Safety for New York State, for a wide-ranging dialogue on new pathways for addressing the some of the most sensitive and polarizing issues in criminal justice today. Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant...

The Story of Iraq: Past, Present, and Insights into the Future

Please join us for a conversation between Amb. Lukman Faily, Iraq's Ambassador to the US, and Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project. This event is open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Belfer Center's Geopolitics of Energy Project and the Middle East Initiative. RSVPs are welcomed but not required: (Nikoleta_Sremac@hks.harvard.edu).

Presenter: Christian Henriot, professor of modern Chinese history at Aix-Marseille University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France (2007-2012)

The issue of death loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Despite its intrinsic importance in any society and its particular importance in the historical experience of Chinese cities, however, death is basically absent from the field of Chinese urban history. Based on a study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965, Christian Henriot explores what death meant and represented in China...