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2016 Oct 21

DRCLAS: Bate-Papo

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Resource Room

Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and cultures at this informal roundtable.  Everyone is welcome!

2016 Oct 20

RL&L: "From Charlie to Bataclan : a research project on social reactions to 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.”

5:00pm

Location: 

Sever Hall 113

Sociologists Sarah Gensburger (CNRS, Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense) and  Gérôme Truc (CNRS,ENS Cachan) 

Unlike 9/11, the terrorist attacks that struck Paris in January and November 2015 did not destroy and alter the architecture of the city. In a way, Paris’s public spaces could be said to bear no physical traces of the events, which happened in multiple sites, at two different times. Each time, most of the attacks took place in the same lively and densely inhabited neighborhood, which could be named after what became its symbolic center, “Republic...

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2016 Oct 12

RL&L: Concert of chamber music by the Mexican experimental composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1985) played by the Momenta Quartet

12:00pm

Location: 

Payne Concert Hall, Department of Music

The Momenta Quartet will perform string quartets nos. 3, 6, and 8 by the visionary Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1985). This will be a unique opportunity to hear the rarely-played music of one of Latin America's most extraordinary musical figures and to experience the mystical overtones of his enigmatic Sonido 13 (microtonal music system). The Momenta Quartet played the world premiere of Carrillo's String Quartet No. 6 (ca. 1937) last year at the Festival Cervantino in Mexico. This Fall, at Harvard, the ensemble will play its Boston premiere. The concert will take place in...

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2016 Mar 03

Radcliffe: Universities and Slavery: Bound by History

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Slavery was intertwined with the founding and growth of Harvard. 

The relationship was neither accidental nor exceptional.

This daylong conference explores the connections between universities and the institution of slavery—across the United States and around the globe—and examines what the relationship...

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2016 Oct 17

Center for Ethics: "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE" Race and Power in America" Book Event

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA

Please join the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics for a very special "Ethics in Your World" Book Series event at the Cambridge Forum featuring Tommie Shelby, Elizabeth Hinton, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad in Conversation with Danielle Allen.

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2017 Apr 13

Center for History & Economics: "The Idea of 'Labour' and the Origins of the Modern Slavery"

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S422, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA

Sarah Balakrishnan 
"The Idea of 'Labour' and the Origins of the Modern Slavery"

GRADUATE WORKSHOP 2016 - 2017

The workshop provides an informal forum for graduate students to present their research or papers in progress to an audience of their peers. The meetings take place on THURSDAYS from 4.15 - 6.00 pm in the Center at CGIS S-422. For more information please contact the co-organizers, Hardeep Dhillon and Ian Kumekawa.

Not open to the Public.

2017 Mar 30

Center for History & Economics: Yi Lu

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S422

Yi Lu
TBD

GRADUATE WORKSHOP 2016 - 2017

The workshop provides an informal forum for graduate students to present their research or papers in progress to an audience of their peers. The meetings take place on THURSDAYS from 4.15 - 6.00 pm in the Center at CGIS S-422. For more information please contact the co-organizers, Hardeep Dhillon and Ian Kumekawa.

Not open to the Public.

2017 Mar 23

Center for History & Economics: Sam Payne

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S422

Sam Payne 
TBD

GRADUATE WORKSHOP 2016 - 2017

The workshop provides an informal forum for graduate students to present their research or papers in progress to an audience of their peers. The meetings take place on THURSDAYS from 4.15 - 6.00 pm in the Center at CGIS S-422. For more information please contact the co-organizers, Hardeep Dhillon and Ian Kumekawa.

Not open to the Public.

2017 Mar 02

Center for History & Economics: “Drafting Protection for Immaterial Property in the Age of Heavy Industry, 1873-1914"

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S422

Liat Spiro 
“Drafting Protection for Immaterial Property in the Age of Heavy Industry, 1873-1914"

GRADUATE WORKSHOP 2016 - 2017

The workshop provides an informal forum for graduate students to present their research or papers in progress to an audience of their peers. The meetings take place on THURSDAYS from 4.15 - 6.00 pm in the Center at CGIS S-422. For more information please contact the co-organizers, Hardeep Dhillon and Ian Kumekawa.

Not open to the Public.

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