Manisha Sinha

Professor of Afro-American Studies and History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition 

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Book Store

Free and open to...

Stéphane Lojkine, University of Aix-Marseille

France and the World, Mahindra Humanities Center

- See more at: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/invention-de-l%E2%80%99esth%C3%A9tique-et-retour-du-politique-le%C3%A7ons-des-lumi%C3%A8res#sthash.Efthxywb.dpuf

Event in French.

Cosponsored by the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, The Robert F. Bacon Fund and The Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

           See more at: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/desseins-du-livre-en-france-1530-1590-journ%C3%A9e-d%C3%A9tude-des-amis-de-...

Douglas Biow (University of Texas at Austin)
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Respondent: Matt Collins
Second respondent: Amelia Linsky
DeBosis Colloquium in Italian Studies- open to the public – seating is limited

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Opening conference, with performance by Ital 40 – open to the public

Sponsors The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Lauro de Bosis Fund for the History of Italian Civilization

http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/dario-fo-franca-rame-festival?delta=0&admin_panel=1

Araceli Alonso, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Nikumbuke: Women Turning Structural Violence into Health and Well-Being

This talk is a personal and professional reflection about the way in which the application of academic and scientific knowledge—backed up by commitment, creativity, collaboration and empathy—has created positive synergies towards equality, equity and human flourishing in seven communities of rural Kenya.

Cultural and Humanitarian Agents, Mahindra Humanities Center

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Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California

Arts and Sciences Workshop: “Reading after the death of reading: Levinas, Derrida and Ranciere in Latin America"

Mira Schendel: Untitled, de la serie "Objetos gráficos", 1967

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

Discussant: Rodrigo Del Río, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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Jane Tylus (New York University)
Siena: City of Secrets (Chicago University Press)
Respondent: Chris Brown
Second respondent: Corrado Confalonieri
DeBosis Colloquium in Italian Studies- open to the public – seating is limited

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/9947

The Science of Art Diagnostics: Maurizio Seracini 

Lecture by URI Distinguished Visiting International Scholar, Maurizio Seracini, a world-famous art diagnostic expert - The Science of Art Diagnostics.

"A Future of Our Past: Engineering Sciences for the Conservation and Preservation of World Cultural Heritage."

"Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet"

Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, discusses her recent publication with two respondents:

David Eckel, Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion,
Boston University 

Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, HDS

Mahindra Humanities Center/Science, Religion, and Culture Seminar
"Debating Circumcision in an Era of Human Rights"

Michael Lesley, ThD Candidate,
Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School

Please join us at Northeastern University on April 11 at 5:30 for “How Small Men Become Great:  Theodor Herzl as a Zionist Leader,” a lecture by Derek Penslar, Stanley Jewish Professor of Modern Israel Studies at University of Oxford.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  

The Peabody Essex Museum will be hosting a public study day entitled Consuming Luxury: Asia in Amsterdam, on Saturday, April 16, 2016 from 9:30 am - 6 pm. This event, held in conjunction with PEM's current ...