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History of Science: Islam as a Postcolony: Science, History and Modernism in the Making of Ethnoreligious Identities

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Ahmed Ragab, Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School "Islam as a Postcolony: Science, History and Modernism in the Making of Ethnoreligious Identities" Abstract: In this paper, I look at the making of Islam as an ethno...

Warren Center: Narrating Slavery: African American Family Histories and Silences

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Kendra Field (Tufts University) Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.

History of Science: "Experimental Camps, Parallel Development, and Archives: Constructing the Narrative of Scientific Agriculture in 1960s Mexico"

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DHS Seminar Gabriela Soto Laveaga , History of Science Department, Harvard University

The Dominican Protestants: Historical Narrative, Religious Freedom, and Property Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Santo Domingo

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Presenter: Christina Davidson (Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History) Talk Title: The Dominican Protestants: Historical Narrative, Religious Freedom, and Property Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Santo Domingo...

David Sclar: “Messianic Messages: Paratexts, Secondary Elites, and a New Narrative for the Coronation of Sabbatai Tsevi”

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David Sclar (Princeton/Frisch School) “Messianic Messages: Paratexts, Secondary Elites, and a New Narrative for the Coronation of Sabbatai Tsevi” Barker 133. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and by the Center for...

Center for Jewish Studies: Arendt Lecture Series: "Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and Rule of Narrative"

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Arendt Lecture Series In Spring 2016, the Political Theory Colloquium, Intellectual History Colloquium, and Center for Jewish Studies will be co-hosting a series of talks on the work of Hannah Arendt. All events will be held in the Center for European...

Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town

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Speaker: Amy Singer, Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor of History, Brandeis University Abstract: Hekim Beşir Çelebi was apparently a fifteenth-century physician ( hekim), invited to leave the court of the Karamanid ruler in south-central...

Lauren Yapp '09

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Position: Doctoral Candidate

Field: Education

Thesis Title: “Reconstructing Sophiatown: Personal Memory, Public Narrative, and the Production of History in South Africa, 1940-2009”

Graduated: 2009

When I first chose to study history as a Harvard freshman, it...

Writing a Common History Textbook in a Conflict Zone: The European Model and the Israeli-Palestinian Case

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Speaker: Eyal Naveh, Visiting Professor of History and CES Resident Faculty (Spring 2019); Professor of History, Tel Aviv University Chair: Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History and Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University...

Fairbanks Center: Digital Approaches to Late Imperial Chinese Literature: Exploring Quasi-historical Texts

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Paul Vierthaler is a 2014-2015 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His dissertation is titled "Quasi-history and PUblic Knowledge: A Social History of Late-Ming and Early-Qing Unofficialh Historical Narratives," and his...

Lauren Bohm

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Lauren Bohm entered the History PhD Program in 2022. She specializes in Modern Europe with an emphasis on Germany and its empire. Lauren is especially interested in personal narratives and the informal family archive, including those who act as both...

Opening Event: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History

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Wed Sept 14, 2022, 5:15pm Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, featuring four flash talks by: Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics, Harvard), “Writing from the margins: women in the Latin classroom”; Jeffrey Hamburger...