Paula Findlen is an award-winning historian who has spent the past few years developing a collaborative, NEH-funded digital humanities project, "Mapping the Republic of Letters," to analyze and present networks of knowledge and information in early modern Europe, its overseas colonies, and its global mercantile and religious communities. She...

Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015); Holding Company (2010) and Hoops (2006), which were both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry; and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a...

Matthew Desmond’s New York Times bestselling book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), draws on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data to take us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge of poverty and eviction....

The Center for the History of Medicine presents:

The Anatomy of Murder:
Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich

 Sabine Hildebrandt, M.D.: Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received...

Prof. Peter Schwieger
Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies, University of Bonn

Prof. Rahile Dawut
Xinjiang Folklore Research Center, School of Humanities

Prof. Tamara Chin
Comparative Literature, Brown University

Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture:

Ann Blair (Harvard University), "The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies"

Lowell Lecture Series presented by the Paul Revere Memorial Association at Old South Meeting House

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“The World of Universities in the 21st Century: Two Case Studies”
William C. Kirby,
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies

Commentator:...