Luis Fernandez Cifuentes
Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Reception to follow. 

Tom Grace, who earned his PhD in History at the University of Buffalo, has a new book out that's an important and serious look at what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970 -- and what led to those events -- by a special person; Tom was one of the nine students wounded at Kent State that day when the Ohio National Guard opened fire without warning on young people protesting the War in Vietnam on their campus, killing four unarmed students.

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Reading for the World

The Epidemiology of Expulsion in Late Medieval Europe

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Books as Jews: The Burning of the Talmud, Paris 1241 and Rome 1553-

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The Politics of History and the Historicity of Politics: Documentaries of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Jennifer Wilson, Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity, Slavic Language and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania

This talk will draw from Dr. Jennifer Wilson's recent experience teaching "The Harlem Renaissance: From New York to Tashkent" at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow; the course dealt with the racial dynamics of the Cold War as told through the perspectives of influential black artists and thinkers such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston. Dr. Wilson will reflect on her...

Speaker: Leigh Jenco, Associate professor of political theory at the London School of Economics

Recent work in contemporary Confucian philosophy promises the holy grail of comparative philosophy: the elaboration of a globally compelling thought-system whose terms and practitioners are generally found outside of the Euro-American historical experiences that currently dominate global terms of knowledge-production.  I argue, however, that in styling their Confucianism as adapted “for the modern world” many of...

Presenter: Professor Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University

Discussant: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Director, Harvard Asia Center

Asia Diaspora Series, Harvard Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

This conference is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and China Academy of Art. There will also be a round-table discussion on CCP visual culture and Chinese revolution at 3:30pm, April 22, which includes discussants: Eugene WANG (Harvard University), Elizabeth PERRY, (Harvard University), Arunabh GHOSH (Harvard University), Jie LI (Harvard University), Catherine YEH (Boston University), and Rudolph WAGNER (Heidelberg University).

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Presentations Include:

Professor Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., Politics Department, Brandeis University — "Brief Reflections on The History and Politics of the Great Leap Forward Famine:  Understanding the Present through the Past"

Professor Sun Feiyu, Sociology Department, Beijing University — "The Tragedy of Mao's Revolution— The Chinese Communist Party's Destruction of the Traditional Rural Elite: Implications for the Quest for Good Governance in the PRC"

Liu Shigu, Post-Doctoral...

Speaker: Ben Vinson III, Dean, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

Speaker: Ben Vinson III, Dean, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

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Speaker: Ben Vinson III, Dean, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

CMES is pleased to present the 2016 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Irene Gendzier
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Boston University

For more on the Silverman Memorial Lecture at CMES, click here.

Contact: Liz Flanagan