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SLL: "Immemory" Abandoned Killing Sites and Their Memory Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe

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Roma Sendyka Associate Professor at the Polish Studies Department and the head of the Research Center for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow Central and Eastern Europe—the scenes of brutal genocides during the last century—are dotted...

Memorial Service for Professor Richard Pipes

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Please join us for a memorial service celebrating the life of Professor Richard E. Pipes (1923-2018). RSVPs to daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4037 are welcome. Co-sponsored by the Pipes family, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies...

CMES / Center for Jewish Studies: A City of Many Faces: Architecture, Literature & Memory of My Diverse Hometown of Haifa

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The CMES Israeli Law, Literature and Society Seminar Series presents Nili Gold Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania The city of Haifa’s structure is tied to political and...

Hutchins Center: "Hurricanes, Populism, and Memory: Race, Class, and Disaster in the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean" | Stuart Schwartz

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Stuart Schwartz George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Yale University Hurricanes, Populism, and Memory: Race, Class, and Disaster in the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean...

2014 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Prof. Afsaneh Najmabadi

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Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her latest book, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Duke University Press...

Davis Center: Political Prisoners and Human Rights Violations in Putin's Russia

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Speaker(s): Sergei Davidis, Board Member and Manager of Political Prisoner Assistance Project, Human Rights Center "Memorial" (Russian Federation) Ekaterina Petrikevich, International Human Rights Consultant, Human Rights Center "Memorial" Sponsored by...

Majula Swareh

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Majula Swareh joined the program in Fall 2025. Her research centers on the social histories of war and memory in The Gambia, with a particular focus on colonial soldiering during the First and Second World Wars. She is especially interested in public...

Emmanuel Akyeampong was conferred an honorary doctorate degree at the University of Ghana

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Some wonderful news via our colleagues at the Harvard Center for African Studies: "On March 16th, 2018, in Ghana, the Harvard Center for African Studies Oppenheimer Faculty Director, Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong, was conferred an honorary doctorate...

HURI: Mobilizing the Peasantry: The Quandaries of Modernity in the Galician Carpathians, 1880-1914

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Petryshyn Memorial Lecture: Frank Sysyn Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)

Sifting Through Remnants: Excavating the Voices of Armenian Women Survivors in a Mutilated Archive

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Spring 2024 McMillan Stewart Lecture In “Remnants”, tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. Please join us...

Roderick MacFarquhar 1930 - 2019 | A Celebration

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Roderick Macfarquhar 1930 - 2019 You are cordially invited to a celebration on Saturday September 7, 2019 at 2:00pm, at the Memorial Church of Harvard University. With tributes from family, colleagues, and friends. Reception to follow at the Harvard...

HURI: The Six Futures of Ukraine: Competing Scenarios for a European Pivot State

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Ukraine Study Group The Six Futures of Ukraine: Competing Scenarios for a European Pivot State Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA Air travel funding to bring Dr...