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"The Origins of the Pig Taboo in Judaism: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees"

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with Dr. Julia Rhyder, Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher at the Theologische Fakultät, entitled “The Origins of the...

4-day summer workshop for educators devoted to the production and consumption of journalism across the globe

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In partnership with other international centers across the university, the Davis Center will offer a 4-day summer workshop for educators devoted to the production and consumption of journalism across the globe. Journalism, now more than ever, is a field...

Harvard Yenching Institute: Caught between Tradition and Modernity: Women and Consumption in Colonial Tonkin

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Tran Thi Phuong Hoa Senior Researcher, Vietnamese Institute for European Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Dr. Tran will discuss changes in women’s consuming behavior as a result of cultural...

CES Visiting Scholars Seminar: Economic Downturns and Political Competition since the 1870s

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Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe SPEAKER Johannes Lindvall Professor of Political Science, Lund University; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University Relying on new data on the ideology of heads of government in 32 democracies over a...

Adah-Dextrious Downie-Greenidge

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Downie-Greenidge is a PhD student studying environmental history, who entered the program in the Fall of 2025. In 2022, Downie graduated with distinction from Temple University’s Honors Program, earning a Bachelor’s degree in history, and was a recipient...

Business History: "The Political Economy of Food: Grown Locally and Consumed Globally"

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Seating is limited, if interested in attending, please contact Casey Lurtz: clurtz@hbs.edu For the full schedule, see the website .The Business History Initiative is hosting a one-day conference on June 12, 2015: "The Political Economy of Food: Grown...

CES: The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity

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Speaker(s): Waltraud Schelkle, Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University Sponsor(s): Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe Creating the European monetary union is arguably one of the biggest experiments in social history. But we lack a...

WIGH Seminar: Peasant Consumers: Self-Fashioning and the Politics of Consumption in Bengal's Jute Tracts, 1850-1914

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Tariq Omar Ali , Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Commentator: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Graduate-student commentator...

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...

Benjamin Schmidt '94: "Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, & Europe's Early Modern World"

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History Department Alum , Benjamin Schmidt '94: Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World Benjamin Schmidt "Benjamin Schmidt has written a remarkable and remarkably innovative account of a remarkable phenomenon. Inventing...

Fei-Hsien Wang – Everybody Loves Qianlong: Vernacular Fantasies, Cultural Consumption, and the “Prosperous Age” in Post-Imperial China

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Speaker: Fei-Hsien Wang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington Examining a wide range of cultural products and genres from the late nineteenth century to the present, this talk traces the evolution of the vernacular...

Christianizing Coffee: a Maronite Origin of the Devilish Drink

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Sponsors: Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on the History of the Book Speakers: Ida Beckett, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Jin-Woo Choi, History Department, both Harvard University This is a hybrid event. In...