2021 Feb 02
Protest as Politics: African American Young Adults, Reimagining Democracy
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
During these unprecedented times, we have watched young people—a great many of them African Americans—taking to the streets in all 50 states in support of justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, while also seeking to address the current failures of policing, criminal justice, and the economy; as well as the existence of white supremacy and anti-Blackness. How does the precarious position of African American young adults facilitate a reimagining of democracy? What does this reimagining mean for American politics?
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2021 Feb 02
Fearing the Worst: How the Korean War Transformed the Cold War
12:15pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades.
Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Decisions made by the Truman administration in the first six months of the...
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2021 Feb 02
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard—Online
Book Panel on Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic by Álvaro Santana-Acuña
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives...
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2021 Feb 01
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies—Online
A Playground for Poets: author Maria Dahvana Headley discusses her new translation of Beowulf (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2019) with Daniel Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English and Chair of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Rethinking Translation Seminar and the Harvard...
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2021 Feb 01
TCUP Conference: Why Is Ukraine a Democracy?
Repeats every day until Fri Feb 05 2021 .
12:00pm to 2:00pm
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12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Ukraine Research Institute at Harvard—Online
Addressing the theme of Ukraine’s democracy in the past, present, and future, this conference is distinct from typical academic conferences. Rather than presenting papers, panelists will respond to a set of questions provided in advance by the moderator. Each panelist will discuss the same questions based on his or her expertise, followed by an open discussion with participants. All panels feature a combination of scholars and policy practitioners, creating a space for dialogue that extends beyond academia.
Dr. Francis Fukuyama will give the keynote address on Wednesday,...
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2021 Feb 01
Human Rights and the Future World Order
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online
The issue of human rights presents a special challenge for any effort to construct a workable world order. Can democracies and their publics remain true to their stated values within a world where human rights abuses are still widespread, without meddling into other nations' domestic political affairs or presuming to know exactly how to achieve these ends globally? To what extent will differences over basic notions of human rights undermine efforts to cooperate on trade, climate, arms control, or other pressing global problems?
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2021 Jan 29
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Art & Technology 3,500 Years Ago
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In the mid-second millennium BCE, sculptors, painters, potters, and glass- and metalworkers were busy in the northern Mesopotamian town of Nuzi (Iraq). Some of their products are in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, which supported excavations at the site between 1925 and 1931. In this online talk, conservation scientist Katherine Eremin and curator Susanne Ebbinghaus will discuss the discovery of these objects and how technical study over decades has revealed the secrets of their making, as well as plans for future display.
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2020 Dec 14
Members: Digging Harvard with Trish Capone & Nam Hyun Kim
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Students have been digging up and learning about Harvard's past through the Harvard Yard Archaeological Project. Meet the Peabody's Trish Capone and current Harvard student Nam Hyun Kim as they talk about the objects they have found and the larger history of what has been uncovered in this long-standing dig on campus.
 
To register, send an email to members@hmsc.harvard.edu. If possible, please include your member number. A...
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2020 Dec 10
Women and the Making of the U.S. Foreign Policy Community
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Who made the foreign policy community in the United States, and why does the answer matter? Scholars have traditionally looked to the men clustered around the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller and Carnegie philanthropies, and the Ivy League faculties to find the roots of the foreign policy "elite" or "establishment" in the years after World War I. But this seminar will show that this focus has obscured the absolute centrality of progressive white women in the making of the U.S. foreign policy community, particularly those former suffragists, trained scholars, and expert...
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2020 Dec 09
Of Scholarship and Song
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
Join Maggie Paxson and Alexandra Vacroux for a wide-reaching, long-looking, spirit-warming conversation and mini-concert as we prepare for this strangest of holiday...
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2020 Dec 03
Election 2020: Youth in Power
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Join the Institute of Politics for a discussion on the unprecedented turnout and impact from young voters 18–29 years old.
Ashley Allison, former National Coalitions Director for Biden for President, and Peter Hamby, host of Snapchat’s Good Luck America and contributing writer for Vanity Fair, will join in a conversation moderated by John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at the Institute of Politics who was on leave in the fall semester from the Harvard Youth Poll to advise the Biden-Harris campaign. They will examine Biden’s communications and organizing strategy from the end...
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2020 Dec 03
2020 Visions
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Too often, the story of women’s suffrage unfolds in a vacuum, seemingly unconnected from the general contours of American history. This panel discussion looks back from the present, asking experts working in a variety of disciplines and organizations to briefly unfold, TED-talk style, a single “big idea” that captures the significance of the 19th Amendment for voting rights, citizenship, and democracy today.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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2020 Dec 03
Violence After Victory: Explaining Human Rights Outcomes After Conflict Termination
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
What stops human rights abuse? Christopher Shay explores this question in the context of conflict terminations, moments when leaders can plausibly turn away from repressive tactics. Many leaders fail to seize this opportunity, however, even in cases of democratization. Drawing on cross-national quantitative findings and qualitative research conducted in Nepal, Shay argues that these leaders' options are often constrained by powerful security institutions—and that civil-military relations are critical to understanding human rights outcomes.
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2020 Nov 20
HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women
Fri Nov 20 (All day) to Thu Dec 31 (All day)
Location: 
Online Event
Virtual experiences connect the collections of the four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. In HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women, go behind the scenes with women in academia while listening to the HMSC Connects! Podcast, discovering women’s work, Story Time videos, and coloring pages.
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2020 Nov 19
Make Us Great Again: The Causes and Consequences of Declinism in Great Powers
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online
This seminar explores the causes and consequences of declinism in great powers. Why does the topic of the nation's international decline emerge in the political discourse of great powers? Why do leaders choose to focus on the nation's decline during some periods and not others? What are the foreign policy consequences of such declinist discourse?
After outlining a theory of declinism's emergence and its consequences, this seminar focuses on 1970s Britain, the emergence of the New Right, and the declinist narratives of politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph....
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2020 Nov 19
Opportunities and Backlash: Reforms in Women’s Military Service in Israel
12:00pm to 12:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Establishing mandatory service for women in Israel in 1948 could signify gender equality; however, the military has maintained a rigid hierarchic gender division of labor for several decades. In the mid-1990s’, following Supreme Court rulings, several combat roles (including pilot course) were opened to women; the Women’s Corps was dismantled; and many courses were gender integrated.
Professor Orna Sasson-Levy argues that these reforms had a dual effect: they broadened military opportunities for women, but at the same time led to a backlash of resistance that threatens these...
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2020 Nov 18
Reimagining Museums: Disruption and Change
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
As museums have acknowledged their legacy as colonial institutions, many have reimagined their mission as agents of decolonization and social justice. The pandemic disruption, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other community issues are driving still more rapid and drastic changes and providing opportunities for reflection and growth.
How can American museums—especially those that have strong relationships with Indigenous communities—respond to current national conditions of social unrest and political turmoil? How have New England museums fared and what is likely to happen...
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2020 Nov 17
Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture: Black Reconstruction
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Ten Responses to One Question: What does it mean to imagine Black Reconstruction today?
Join the Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) for this lecture. The BRC provides funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia. Founded by a group of Black architects, artists, designers, and scholars, the BRC aims to amplify knowledge...
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2020 Nov 05
Election 2020: What Just Happened?
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
The Institute of Politics hosts a panel of top political strategists to breakdown and analyze the results of the 2020 election. The conversation will be moderated by IOP Director Mark D. Gearan ’78, and feature former and current IOP Fellows Karen Finney, Senior Advisor for Communications and Political Outreach for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, Scott Jennings, Senior Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Robby Mook, Campaign Manager for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, and Alice Stewart, IOP Fall 2020 Fellow and Republican Communications...
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2020 Nov 05
Post-Election Round-Up
4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Center for American Political Studies at Harvard—Online
Bill Kristol and William Galston will be meeting for their fifteenth much-anticipated biennial debate following the U.S. election, offering the perspectives of two reflective political participants and shrewd observers, both of them experts at providing what might be called partisan objectivity. This year, they will be joined by Jim Ceaser of the University of Virginia, a seasoned expert in American party politics. Moderated by Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University.
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