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History of Science Faculty Flash Talks: Peter Galison, Naomi Oreskes, Gabriela Soto Laveaga

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History of Science Colloquium Series Department of the History of Science, Harvard University We are excited to be hosting History of Science Professors Peter Galison , Naomi Oreskes , Gabriela Soto Laveaga. They will deliver individual flash talks on...

The Charlie Archive at Harvard Library: Archiving Today for Tomorrow

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A collaboration between Harvard librarians, scholars, and digital humanists, the Charlie Archive at Harvard Library is an evolving project that collects a broad range of materials, including ephemera. Volunteers in France and elsewhere have donated...

The Catholic Church and the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1975–1982)

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Speaker: Santiago de Navascués Martínez, Assistant Professor, University of Navarra; Visiting Scholar 2026-2027, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Chair: Jamie Martin, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies...

Edan Larkin

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Edan Larkin entered the Medieval History program in the Fall of 2023. The previous Spring, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in History and Classics. At Brown, her research mostly focused on the First Pandemic of Yersinia...

History Reconsidered: Poetry Reading with Clint Smith

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Clint Smith is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University and an Emerson Fellow at New America. His writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first full...

Ribbentrop’s Folly: The Nazi Thesis of Soviet Thermidor and the Origins of the Second World War, 1936-1941

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Speaker: Philip Decker, Ernest May Research Fellow, Belfer Center This talk examines the opening chapter of Decker's dissertation The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: A Cultural and Diplomatic History, exploring the emergence of an internally generated Nazi...

Center for the History of Medicine: Lunchtime Lecture on "Sella Turcica"

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Upcoming Lunchtime Lecture "How did the Turkish Saddle become the Sella Turcica ? A Cultural and Historical Perspective" 12:00 PM Feel free to bring your lunch! Ware Room, 5th Floor Countway Library 10 Shattuck St. Boston, MA 02115 Halil Tekiner, Ph.D...

Ghetto: The History of a Word

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Speaker: Daniel B. Schwartz Associate Professor of History, Columbian College of Arts and Scinces Chair: Derek Penslar William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University...

Harvard Book Store: "Civil Wars: a History in Ideas" discussion with David Armitage

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Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Harvard's Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History DAVID ARMITAGE, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, for a discussion of his latest book, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas. About Civil...

Comparative History, Then and Now (1928-2026)

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The Marc Bloch Seminars in Comparative History Speakers Isabel Frey Ribeiro Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University Peter E. Gordon Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center...

Daniel B. Schwartz: “The Ghetto” in Jewish History

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Daniel B. Schwartz, Associate Professor of History, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k0pwhRMuRcWF4QgeW_14wg After registering, you...

Global Environments Working Group: “Yankee Pests: The 1864 “Army Worm” Infestation, Power, and the Twists and Turns of the Transition to Free Labour along the Lower Mississippi River”

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Global Environments Working Group We will discuss Sanjay Paul’s paper titled “Yankee Pests: The 1864 “Army Worm” Infestation, Power, and the Twists and Turns of the Transition to Free Labour along the Lower Mississippi River” During 1864, the United...