Felipe Pereda and many others

Purity and contamination have long figured in the accounts of the European Renaissance. Scholars, in the last few decades alone, have mapped the role these ideas have played in debates about godliness and sin, cleanliness, gender, and ethnicity, among other domains. Less thoroughly studied, though, is how these two intertwined categories informed European approaches to art and the built...

Understanding Human Variation: Then and Now
Maryellen Ruvolo, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology; Affiliate Member of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Associate Member of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Exposing Latent Images: Daguerreotypes in the Museum and Beyond
Ilisa Barbash, Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Walking Backward into the Future: 30 Years after Te Māori
Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall & John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Get Them before They’re Gone: From Collecting Cultural Objects to Collaborating with Communities
Joe Watkins (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland

Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder
Joseph L. Graves, Jr., Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Sciences, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender & Sexuality

See the Radcliffe Website for the most up-to-date information: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-joanne-meyerowitz-boston-seminar-series

Details:

Joanne Meyerowitz RI '16, Arthur Unobskey Professor of...

Wed. Sept 21 (4:00-7:00pm) | Thurs. Sept 22 (3:00-6:00pm) | Fri. Sept 23 (3:00-6:00pm)

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Philip Jacks, George Washington University

Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/living-ruins-renaissance-rome-episodes-adaptive-reuse

Speakers: Piotr Gorecki (University of California, Riverside), Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard Law School), Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School), Daniel Smail (Harvard University)

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/looking-law-all-wrong-places-medieval-legal-history-and-problem-sources