History Events

2017 Apr 05

DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program: Military dictatorship and political repression in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street

For more information, see the DRCLAS Website. 

Speaker: Mariana Joffily, Professor, Department of History, State University of Santa Catarina

Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

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2017 Mar 27

HLS: Fellow’s Lecture: The Trial of a Heretic: (Muslim Toledo, 11th Century) Judicial Procedure and Political Context

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

WCC 4059, Harvard Law School

Join a Fellow’s Lecture with Dr. Maribel Fierro.

 Dr. Fierro will discuss her current research on a significant Andalusian judicial figure from the 11th Century. Dr. Fierro's research focuses on the political, religious, and intellectual history of al-Andalus and the Islamic West (eighth—fifteenth centuries), on Islamic law, and on violence and its representation in Medieval Arabic sources.

 Dr. Fierro is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; and Director of El Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (...

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2017 Mar 08

History Department Seminar

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

*Note: Closed to the Public.

 

Department Seminar: “The Ethics of History”

 

Chair, Prof. David Armitage.  With Prof. Ann Blair, Prof. Ian Miller, Mou Banerjee, and Prof. Annette Gordon-Reed.

                               

 

2017 Feb 16

SoHP: "The Genetic History of Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century via the Roman Empire" | Johannes Krause

5:30pm to 6:45pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Rm. 110, (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Johannes Krause Feb. 16, 2017“What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire?” A Lecture Series Hosted by Michael McCormick, Chair, SoHP Steering Committee; Department of History

Johannes Krause
Director, Max Planck...

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