Note: Not open to the public. Harvard Faculty, Students and Staff only.

 Come and join us for a Fireside Chat with Diana Loren, Director of Academic Partnerships and Museum Curator of the Harvard Peabody Museum. The talk will focus on the history of anthropological knowledge creation at Harvard and in Chicago during the late 19th century. Refreshments will be served. No RSVP required.

You’re invited:

 The End of Dating? Romance and Courtship among Muslim Javanese Youth

 With Nancy J. Smith Hefner, Department of Anthropology

 Romantic love is going global. Recent ethnographic studies of youth have identified a new emphasis on romantic love and companionate marriage, perceived...

Activists from the Afrodescendant movement in Latin America, agency representatives and government officials reflect on the achievements and obstacles faced by the antiracist agenda formulated at the Latin American Regional Conference Against Racism (Santiago de Chile, 2000). This symposium is part of a broader effort by the Afro-...

Breaking Iconoclasm: Destroying and Rebuilding Past and Present Heritage

Organized by the Harvard Standing Committee on Archaeology and Bastien Varoutsikos (CNRS)

Wednesday December 2, 2015

4-7pm Fong Auditorium, ...

China’s Slowing Growth and Implications for the Global Economy

China’s stock market correction and currency devaluation sent shock waves through global markets over the summer.  President Xi Jinping on his recent visit said that China’s growth slowdown was a normal development now that China has reached middle income and is rebalancing from an investment-led economy to one based more on innovation on the supply side and consumption on the demand side.  Chinese leaders expect the economy to grow at 7 percent for the...

***12 Noon Lunch Meeting***

***Location: Bechtel Room, Emerson Hall 107***

Paul V. Kershaw...

2015 Massey Lectures...

 LINDA GREENHOUSE

“Just a Journalist: Reflections on journalism, life, and the spaces between”

 Tuesday, November 17, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 19, 5:30 p.m.

A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge

 Parking available at the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, during the lectures and reception

 Free and open to the public.

...

Conversations with Kirkland

presents

Marlon James

Author and winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize 
for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings”


Moderated by award winning author and journalist

Scott Poulson-Bryant

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:00 PM
Kirkland House Junior Common Room


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Africana Studies & the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy present:

 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS &

THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION

...

The CMES Director’s Series and

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

 present 

 Muslims in Europe in the Interwar Years:

A Trans-Cultural Perspective 

 Umar Ryad

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University

 No comprehensive attempt has yet been made to cover...