Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College

Schedule available here 

*RSVP via email to: emework[at]fas by Feb 1 if you plan to attend on Saturday 2/6

Aldair Rodrigues, Yale University

“Slave Trade, Ethnicity and Ethnonym: Southeastern Brazil and the African West Coast”

 This seminar will focus on the discussion of a precirculated paper. For a copy of the paper please write to amblair@fas.harvard.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, and the...

Jennifer C. Blanke, University of Göttingen

“Historical Expertise and the Production of Almanacs in the Age of Enlightenment”

Alexander Bevilacqua, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows

“A Wholly Other Face of the Mohammedan Religion: Europeans Reinterpret Islam, 1650-1734”

Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu.

Philip J. Stern, Duke University

“The Nomos of the Island: Law and Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese ‘Transfer’ of Bombay in the Late Seventeenth Century”

Hosted by the ...

Early Modern European History workshop
Welcome Back Aperitivo & Faculty Research Projects Panel

The evening will begin with a short panel in which four faculty present their current research, to be followed by aperitivo-style wine and refreshments. Come and meet Boston-area early modernists in multiple fields.

Panelists:

Ann Blair, History
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For more info see the Hutchins Center website.

Jonathan Rieder, Professor of Sociology, Barnard College

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

The Art of Appropriation, From Elvis to Iggy (...

Welcome History Graduate Students!

The History Department will host a welcome back BBQ for the History Department Graduate Students and their Families!

Meet new students and get re-acquainted with classmates!

Please RSVP to your paperless post email (you should have received this already)
OR send an email to history@fas.harvard.edu

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Download the conference schedule (.pdf)

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On Monday May 4, 1:30 - 4pm, in the Robinson Lower Library, various History faculty and DiTFs will demonstrate the digital assignments and tools they have used in their courses this year.  Please plan to come, to see what is being done, to comment and learn!

The Annual Henry Adams Book Sale is here again! Join us from 10-6 in the Great Space of Robinson Hall on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th of April. Our books all come from the generous donations of faculty, students and friends of the Harvard History Department, and all proceeds raised go to support our Graduate Student Organization, the Henry Adams Society. Prices will be low (under the $5 mark for most books!) and the selection is wide - from untouched hardcover publications, to...