All members of the College and the Department are warmly invited to attend this year’s Senior Thesis Writers’ Conference. The Conference will take place on Thursday, October 31, and Friday, November 1, and will showcase the thesis research of the Class of 2020. Please see the program for details.

(Closed to the Harvard Community)

All members of the College and the Department are warmly invited to attend this year’s Senior Thesis Writers’ Conference. The Conference will take place on Thursday, October 31, and Friday, November 1, and will showcase the thesis research of the Class of 2020. Please see the program for details.

The “Public Face of History” is a year-long series sponsored by the Harvard History Department that aims to stimulate conversation among faculty, students, and the larger community over the challenges historians face in sharing their work with the public. In doing so, the department hopes to highlight the different ways that scholars have deepened historical understanding to a broad audience. Our first talk, “Giving Our Own Times a History,” will center around University of Washington Professor Margaret O’Mara’s recent book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America....

(Closed Event)

The Harvard History Department invites you and your family to our Fall Reception. We hope to see you there!

Professor Philip Deloria will discuss and sign Becoming Mary Sully.

Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self-taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also engaged with the experiments in time, space,...

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series

Speaker: 
Mou Banerjee
Assistant Professor, History Department,
Clemson University

Chaired by:
Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of History,
Harvard University

Sunil Amrith
Mehra Family Professor of South Asian
Studies, Harvard University

Sponsored by: the Harvard University Asia Center

(Flyer attached below)

Speaker: Marcella Hayes

Seminar Series on Afro-Latin American Studies

(Event poster attached below)

In the last twenty or thirty years, innovation has been central to the discourse on the economy. This ‘innovation’ is disruptive, pervasive and fast, demanding new economic, political and social forms. On the other hand, the world has seen unprecedented rates of imitation, not least of old forms. In our imaginations innovation and imitation occupy different geographical, economic and moral spaces. Innovation is seen positively and futuristically, as a feature of a few selected, creative, entrepreneurial places; it marches...

April 11th, 10:00am - 6:00pm (open to Harvard affiliates; closed to the public)

April 12th, 10:00am - 6:00pm (open to Harvard affiliates and the general public)

Cash and Venmo accepted!

Proceeds to Benefit the History Graduate Student Association

(Flyer attached below)

Harvard University Asia Center 
Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series

Invisible Boundaries: Taxation and Enchantment in Late-Mughal Gujarat

Friday, April 5, 4:00 pm
Robinson Hall, Lower Library

Presented by:
Samira Sheikh
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Chaired by:
Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Sunil Amrith
Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University

Sponsored by: The Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the...

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