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CES: Drafting Empire: American and German Capital Goods and the Mission Industrialisatrice in the Shandong-Kyushu Corridor, 1880-1914

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CES Dissertation Workshop SPEAKER Liat Spiro Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University CONTACT Gili Kliger kliger@g.harvard.edu

CES: From Assimilation to Elimination: The Exclusion of Jews from Czech Society in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group SPEAKER Benjamin Frommer Professor of History, Northwestern University In 1938 the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia were full and free citizens of a democratic Czechoslovak Republic. In the country’s western regions Jews lived...

Davis Center: Charting Out Landholding and Lords in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1500s-1800

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Speaker(s): Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College; Center Associate, Davis Center Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Weatherhead: "Engines of Productivity Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing"

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Economic History Workshop Speaker: Richard Hornbeck, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Contact: Gia Petrakis gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu Chairs: Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics...

Weatherhead: Two Worlds of Postindustrial Fertility

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Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Seminar Speaker: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Harvard University Contact: Sarah Banse sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Asia Center: The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean

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Asia Center Seminar Series Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research is on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions. Areas of particular interest include the history of...

Efficacious Objects and Improvisational Practice: The Affordances of 'Ornaments' in Banda, Ghana

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Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series Presents: Ann Stahl A growing literature highlights the incorporative ethos and openness to new affordances that characterized practice in West Africa in relation to shifting topologies of power, opportunity and...

Archaeology Conference: City and Empire in Seleucid Asia Minor: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea

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City and Empire in Seleucid Asia Minor: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea Introduction This conference is a capstone event for the first phase of the Hellenistic Sardis Project, a research collaborative formed in 2014 with the aim of...

Anthropolgy: Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

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Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of...

Center for the Environment: Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the American West

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Note, the room above has been changed (was orignially the Geological Lecture Hall). William Wyckoff, a leading historical geographer of the American West, will be at Harvard on April 3 rd for an evening lecture (4-6pm) titled, “Producing Public...

ANNUAL BOOK SALE! Now accepting donations

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The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) will be holding its annual book sale April 20-21 in the Great Space of Robinson Hall. We are now collecting book donations. HGSA representatives are able to pick up donations from your office, if you are on...

Reischauer Institute: In Pursuit of Reclusion: Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913) and the Gendering of Literati Art in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Yurika Wakamatsu, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Japanese Art History, Harvard 2016), Harvard University Details: In Pursuit of Reclusion: Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913) and the Gendering of Literati Art in Nineteenth-Century Japan Sponsored by...