The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Fatma Muge Gocek
Professor, Department of Sociology and the Program in Women’s Studies, University of Michigan 

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Derek Penslar
The Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto; Stanley Lewis Visiting Professor of Modern Israel Studies, Oxford University; Visiting Professor of History, Harvard...

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

Speaker:

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Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe

Speaker:

Georgina Waylen
Professor of Politics, University of Manchester; visiting Scholar, CES

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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

Speaker: Michael Miller, 
Director of the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest

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New Directions in European History Study Group

Tara Zahra,
Professor of History at the University of Chicago

In 2015, Europe faced a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the
Second World War, as more than a million individuals arrived on the
continent. The contemporary refugee crisis has brought barbed wire
fences, internment camps, and “no-man’s lands” back to the European
landscape. We are not only in the midst of a “migration crisis,”
however....

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Speaker: Professor Shantha Sinha
Professor Sinha is one of India’s leading child rights activists and the founder and Secretary Trustee of M. Venkatarangaiya Foundation. She was the former Chairperson National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), and Professor in the Department of Political Science – University of Hyderabad. She has been honoured with the Raman Magsaysay Award in 2003, and the Padma Shri in 2008....

This symposium will focus on important new research on the changing nature of the world’s oceans and the questions that arise from that change. Beginning with a study of new data relating to the formation of oceans and the origins of early life, the program will then examine how oceans continue to change over climate epochs, as ice sheets form and melt and ocean temperatures change. The impact of these shifts—and of those that result from human use of the sea—on marine life and on islands and coastal areas will lead to discussions about climate change and the role the scientific community...

Bruno Latour is a French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist known for his work in science and technology studies, and in developing new lines of inquiry about ecological crises, scientific and religious practices, materiality, modernity and numerous other subjects. He is a professor at Sciences Po, Paris, a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and a professors-at-large at Cornell University.

Free and open to the public.

Cosponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for...

Women of the Blackwell Family: Resilience and Change opens on July 5, 2016, and runs through October 21, 2016.

It will be on view on the first floor of the Schlesinger Library, Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

Introducer:  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Moderator:  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Panelists: Charles Blow, Leah Wright Rigeur, Donna Brazile, Armstrong Williams

Watch webcast of the 2015 Hutchins Forum