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Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture: Architecture on the Edge of the Muslim World: The Deccan during the 14th and 15th centuries

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T he Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University Presents Thursday, October 19, 2017 “Architecture on the Edge of the Muslim World: The Deccan during the 14th and 15th centuries” Helen Philon Independent Scholar Real Colegio...

Social Studies: "From Selma to Ferguson: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Racial Justice in the Age of Obama and Black Lives Matter"

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The 15th Annual Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture presented by Dr. Peniel E. Joseph cocktail reception to follow in the Adams House Conservatory

From Byzantium to the Early Greek Enlightenment: Books, Authors, and Ideologies in Early Modern Greek Contexts (15th-18th c.)

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CMES: "Iranian Cities from the Arab Conquest to the Early Modern Period"

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present a conference organized by Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Harvard University This conference will consider the social and economic history of Iranian cities and their hinterlands...

CMES: Ottoman Perception Of The Ukrainian Cossack Uprising Against The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648-1657)

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The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents Dr. Sait Ocakli Shklar Fellow, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Currently an instructor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, Sait Ocakli comes to HURI in the...

On Account of Race (1965)

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The passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 marked one culmination of a long civil rights movement that began in the wake of the American Civil War and gathered steam in the early 20th century, long before the Montgomery bus boycotts and the...

Schlesinger Library: The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

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A Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary Event June Millicent Jordan (1936–2002) called herself a “dissident American poet,” and she counted among her forebears powerful voices ranging from Walt Whitman to Phyllis Wheatley. She began writing verse at the...

“Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World” | a Symposium

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This event is co-sponsored by the Jeanette and Ludwig Goldschmidt Bequest for the Benefit of the Center for Jewish Studies, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar Series and History of the Book Series at the Mahindra...

Imagining Urban Futures / During, Despite, and Beyond the Pandemic

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The event, moderated by Bruno Carvalho and Diane Davis, will bring together perspectives from different regions of the globe. AbdouMaliq Simone, Eric Klinenberg, and Hiba Bou Akar will present their views of the connections between the ongoing pandemic...

From Civil War to Civil Rights: The Unending Battle to Vote - In Celebration of the Work and Life of Drew Gilpin Faust

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Registration is required. Please register here. Ever since the ratification of the 15th amendment in 1870, the United States has grappled with the ideal of universal suffrage. Recent obstacles include the Supreme Court decision invalidating key parts of...

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‘Equal of the Ancients, Pride of the Moderns’: The Poetics of Faizi’s Ghazals

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Abstract: Akbar’s poet laureate, Abu al-Faiz Faizi (1547-1595), was seen by his contemporaries (and depicted himself) as a transitional figure: a sage, almost a seer conversant with pre-Islamic wisdom and sciences; the lyric voice of Akbar’s new forms of...