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...

Presenters:

Speaker: Melissa E. Vise Assistant Professor of History, Washington and Lee University, and Lauro de Bosis Fellow, Harvard University

Talk Title: Verbal Violence in Tales and Acts: The Decameron and the Notarial Register

(Talk followed by a reception)

Sponsored by: Medieval History Workshop; Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar; Romance Languages and Literatures; Lauro de Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization

Speaker: Patrick Boucheron (College de France)

Title: France in the World: A Medievalist Reflects on the 'Master Narrative' 

Reception to follow in the Seminar Room, Dana Palmer House 

Sponsored by the France and the World Seminar and the Medieval Studies Seminar at the Mahindra Center, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the French Cultural Services, and Other Press. Co-sponsored by the European Union study group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. 

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Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

Talk Title: "City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries"

Speaker: Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Research Professor of History, Harvard University

Co-Sponsored by The Center for Middle Eastern Studies 

Speaker: Nandita Das

Indian Actor and Director

Discussant: Sunil Amrith

Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies
Department of South Asian Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Chair
Department of South Asian Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Professor of History
Department of History
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Chair,...

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable, co-sponsored with the Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

Panelists:

• Prof. Fu Chao-Ching, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Prof. Kim Hyon-sob, Department of Architecture, Korea University, South Korea...

Dr. Shibuya is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Fukuchiyama in Japan. She obtained her two Bachelor’s degrees in American and English Literature, and Anthropology at the University of Tokyo, and her Ph. D. degree in Anthropology at Harvard University. She served as Adjunct Professors at the University of Tokyo, International Christian University and Waseda University and as Professor at Seisa University before joining the University of Fukuchiyama in 2018. Her academic...

In 2016, Marielle Franco was elected to Rio de Janeiro’s City Council as a member of the Socialism and Liberty Party. She was a woman of African descent from a favela community who earned a master’s degree. She was a single mother in a committed relationship with another woman. Marielle worked for the welfare of LGBTQ and poor populations, including families of deceased police members. She was a feminist, a bridge-builder and a radical defender of human rights. She represented hopes of political renewal for countless Brazilians. On March 14, 2018, Marielle and...

Speaker: Jill Lepore (David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History)

Talk Title: “How Data Killed Facts”

A presentation and conversation about the current epistemological crisis and its consequences for historical study and humanistic knowledge.

Hosted by Harvard...

Speaker: Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Professor of History, Williams College)

Moderator: Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; and Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute)

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the History Department.

The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, culminated almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium’s Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I.

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Presentation Title: "Bible Exegesis, the Ancient Israelites, and the Early Modern Question of Usury” (with comment by Sophus Reinert, HBS)

Speaker: Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University; Harvard)

Presentation Title: "Republicanism and Humanism” (With a Response by James Hankins)

Speaker: Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3; IAS, Princeton)

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Political Theory Colloquium

Presentation Title: "The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race"

Speaker: Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College; Cornell University)

Co-sponsored with the Medieval History Workshop