The Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard presents the first event of the 2016/2017 Academic year:

What Works: Gender Equality by Design

Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Date: Wednesday November 30, 2016 | 12pm to 1.30pm

Location: Knafel...

The Graduate Student Lecture Series of the Department of History of Art and Architecture presents

Mieke Bal

Cultural Theorist, Critic, Video Artist

Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

"Reasonable Doubt" & "Thinking in Film"

A FILM SCREENING AND LECTURE WITH MIEKE BAL

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Hunger Strikes and Affective Politics at the Tule Lake Stockade in 1944

A Lecture by Professor Nayan Shah

Sponsored with generous support from The Donald T. Regan Lecture Fund.

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            Alison LaCroix

            Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago

            Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

            (rsvp to mann@law.harvard.edu to receive the paper)

Public sessions of the European Legal History Workshop

On November 14, Daniel Smail will discuss his paper: "Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe." The workshop meets from 5-7 PM in Wasserstein Hall, Room 3034. To request a copy of the paper, email jminnich@law.harvard.edu.

Speaker: Julian Gewirtz ’13 

Julian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book,...

Please join us as Amy Hollywood, HDS Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, discusses her recent publication, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion.

Laura Nasrallah (HDS), Catherine Brekus (HDS), and Janet Gyatso (HDS) will serve as respondents.

Stories of the victims and survivors of sex trafficking will help us see how the lack of conversations about sex and love drives the sex trafficking industry, as well as how religion and spirituality lead this conversation.

This event is the second seminar in a series of Junior Fellow seminars at CSWR. The event is organized by CSWR resident Evelyn Nam.

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was...

Speaker: Robert Karl, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University; Santander Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS

From land restitution to the role of victims’ voices in reconciliation, Colombia’s ongoing peace process has its parallels in largely forgotten events that transpired more than a half-century ago. This talk examines what Colombian history can – and cannot – tell us about the...

Speaker: Alejandra Uslenghi, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University

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

More information forthcoming....