The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present
Constructing the Past in a Fractured Present: A History of Late Ottoman Historical Writing, 1839-1922

with

Erdem Sönmez
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara

Erdem Sönmez is a historian of the modern Middle East with a particular research focus on the late Ottoman Empire and republican Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in History from Bilkent...

Presented by The Joint Center for History and Economics

Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Speaker: Namrata Kala (MIT / Sloan)

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"Rise of the Vultures: Jobbing Nations in the Victorian Stock Exchange"

Speaker: Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania
Comment: Charlotte Robertson (Harvard University) and Ellen Nye (Harvard University)

This session will take place in person, with an option for remote access. Please register in advance to receive the paper and the Zoom link.

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The CMES Director's Series is pleased to present

Familial Undercurrents: 
Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran

with

Afsaneh Najmabadi
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers...