Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm:  Shamil Jeppie (Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) "Book Collecting in Timbuktu." In person event, Barker Center 133. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book.

Abstract: This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16^th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major...

EMPIRE, NATION, FEDERATION: SOUTH ASIA’S FREEDOM IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
HARVARD-TUFTS CONFERENCE on the 75^th ANNIVERSARY of INDEPENDENCE and PARTITION

Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center and Asia Center of Harvard University and the Center of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University, and the concert by Zeb Bangash on October 8, 2022, at 6.30 pm supported by Presidents Bacow and Monaco.


Part 1: October 7-9, 2022, Part 2: April 7-9, 2023

Friday, October 7, 2022, ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Building, Tufts...

Please visit here to purchase your tickets. The cost of admissions is $5 with proceeds for Pakistan flood relief.

Jointly supported by: Presidents Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard University, and Anthony P. Monaco, Tufts University

This concert is associated with the Harvard-Tufts conference on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition

James Raven (University of Cambridge), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s  The Natural History of Norway (1752-5).” In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard. 

Abstract : The publication of Erik Pontoppidan’s Natural History of Norway (1752-55 in different language editions) offers a unique, multi-...