History Events

2024 Feb 07

Science of the Huma Past: “Ancient DNA & U.S. History: The Genetic Legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace”

5:30pm to 6:45pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard invites you to a discussion on Wednesday, February 7th at 5:30 pm (U.S. Eastern Time) about recent work in U.S. History from Prof. David Reich’s lab...

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2023 Dec 06

Palestine and the Historian: A History Department Symposium

10:00am to 4:30pm

Location: 

Sever Hall Room 113, Harvard Yard
Please join us for three panels titled: “Borders, Apartheid, and Carcerality,” “Insurgency, Protest and a Global Palestine” and “Narrative, Memory and the Place of the Scholar.” The goal of this event is to critically engage with ongoing history-making in the region and initiate a community conversation on our role as historians therein. As such, we are excited to host diverse thematic and geographic panelists across faculty and graduate students as they bring their expertise to bear on Israel/Palestine in order to challenge the “Palestine exception” through connective, comparative inquiry.... Read more about Palestine and the Historian: A History Department Symposium
2023 Nov 09

Department of History Senior Thesis Conference

(All day)

Location: 

Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (#125) and Warren Center Conference Room (#B21)

DAY 1: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9

10–11:30 AM
Panel 1: Organization’s Effects: Belonging and Transformation at Home and Abroad
Moderator: Prof. Lizabeth Cohen
Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room

Cara Chang: “Organizing the Union Teacher: Examining Race Within the Boston Teachers Union, circa 1963–1983”

Dekyi Tsotsong: “Persecuted in their Motherland: The History and Politics of the 2008 Uprising in Tibet and its Effect on the Diaspora”

Walter Goldberg: “Brownstone Frontier:...

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2023 Sep 26

Drew Gilpin Faust’s Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury in conversation with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Liz Cohen, and Nancy Cott

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Department of History welcomes members of the Harvard community to attend this special in-person seminar. Please see the event posting or flyer for more information. A reception will take place after the event in Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 from 4:30-6PM.

EVENT RECORDING:...

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2022 Nov 28

Invisible Women?: Gendering Atlantic Biafran History

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

In person or Zoom (see posting)

This is limited to the Harvard Community (Harvard Key Required for Zoom).

Mary Ononokpono
University of Cambridge

In-person: Robinson Hall, History Dept. Conference Room (#125) 35 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA 02138

To register on Zoom, click here. 

2022 Nov 16

The International Solution to the Labor Question in Africa: Law & Migration in the Long 19th Century

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

In person or Zoom (see posting)

This is limited to the Harvard Community (Harvard Key Required for Zoom).

Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Columbia University
Reginald F. Lewis Fellow, Harvard Law School

In-person: Robinson Hall, History Dept. Conference Room (#125) 35 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA 02138

To register on Zoom, click here. 

 

2022 Nov 14

Colonial Taxation, Taxpayers, and Inequality in West Africa, 1890s-1940

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

In person or Zoom (see posting)

This is limited to the Harvard Community (Harvard Key Required for Zoom).

Dr. Laura Channing
Assistant Professor of Economic History, Durham University

In-person: Harvard Center for African Studies, 1280 Mass Ave, 3rd Floor, Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138

To register on Zoom, click here. 

 

2022 Nov 10

The Receding Democratic Majority

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

Tim Shenk
Assistant Professor, George Washington University

Registration is open to the Harvard Community (Harvard Key Required).
To register, click here. 
 

2022 Nov 03

Department of History: Senior Thesis Conference

(All day)

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (See posting for rooms)

**Please note, this event is limited to Harvard affiliates only.**

SENIOR THESIS CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 3 & 4, 2022

DAY 1: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3

1–3 PM
Panel 1: Law, Politics, and Migration in North America
Moderator: Prof. David Spreen
Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (#125)

Julian Habermann: “Stamped Out: Ineligibility in the Origins of the Immigration System, 1880–1920”
Sam Lowry: “Courts, Commerce, and Child Labor: The Creation of a...

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