Four Films by Vincent Brown AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series Wednesday, April 24th at 6pm Carpenter Center Theater
Vincent Brown Charles Warren Professor, American History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Affiliate Professor, Art, Film, and Visual Studies; Harvard University
Introduction and Q&A moderated by Valerie Werder PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies.
Films:
Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery (2022, 24 mins.) How an FBI Poster Became a Black Power Symbol (2022, 14 mins) Who...
Please save the date for an upcoming symposium hosted by the Department of History titled “Perspectives on Academic Freedom.” This in-person day-long symposium will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at the Tsai Auditorium, CGIS...
See the event details for locations and start times.
In honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation are hosting a two-day symposium on April 26-27, 2024 at Harvard University.
Friday, April 26: The Keynote and Roundtable The Harvard Faculty Club, Room 205, 20 Quincy Street 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Opening remarks by Sharaf Yamani, Al-Furqan Foundation
This talk explores what governance meant to people living in places ruled under armed non-state actors during the Korean War (1950-1953). Drawing on a rich set of oral histories with local communities bordering the great mountains of South Korea’s Jeju Island and South Jeolla Province—areas especially infamous for civilian massacres due to suspect ties with communist organizations and irregular guerilla forces—it traces a variety of hyper-small schemes for regulating intimate and communal life, sharing resources, doing paperwork,...
