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2016 Oct 26

Photography of Oscar Palacio: American History, Re-Visited

Wed Oct 26, 9:00am to Fri Mar 31, 5:00pm
Location:
1737 Cambridge Street 4th floor; CGIS North
American History, Re-Visited
The Center for American Political Studies is pleased to present the work of Oscar Palacio, the latest in an on-going series of artist collaborations that reflect and spark conversations around American politics. This series of photographs investigates the construction of place and history in the United States by focusing on popular historic sites which have both embedded meanings and assumed historical narratives, as well as sites of more recent historical and political import.
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2016 Oct 25

Jeffrey Gould- Film Screening & Discussion: La Palabra en el Bosque

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location:
CGIS South, S-030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Jeffrey Gould, Film Director & Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
Moderator: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazán organized to...
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2016 Oct 19

Brian Daley (University of California, Berkeley)

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Robinson Hall, Lower Library
Title: “Dambreaking: Guns, Capitalism, and the Independence of the Americas". A presentation of the Harvard International and Global History Seminar, with support from both the Weatherhead and Warren Centers. Obtain paper from Erez Manela (manela@fas.harvard.edu).
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2016 Oct 18

Seminar- American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
1737 Cambridge Street; Room K262
Gary Okihiro (Professor of International and Public Affairs- Columbia University)

Moderator by Walter Johnson (Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History)

12:30-2:00 pm: Seminar Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street (40minute lecture and then Q&A)

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2016 Oct 17

Approaches to Global History Seminar

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Lower Library in Robinson Hall
We will meet in the Lower Library in Robinson Hall to discuss Shubhankita Ojha's paper, "Embracing Waterfronts: Dock Worker Solidarities in International Perspective." Please email Aaron Bekemeyer at bekemeyer@g.harvard.edu to request the paper. All are welcome!
2016 Oct 13

Jeffrey Gonda (Syracuse University)

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Title: “As Much Right to Live in a House as Anybody: Black Women and the Fight for Housing Integration in the 1940s." Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.
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2016 Oct 04

Film Screening and Q&A with Joel Motley

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
2019 Milstein West AB; Harvard Law School
Film screening of, "The Trials of Constance Baker Motley," and Q&A.
Moderated by Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
Lunch will be provided.
http://hls.harvard.edu/event/the-trials-of-constance-baker-motley-a-film-screening-and-qa-with-joel-motley/

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2016 Sep 28

Marian Anderson and the Desegregation of the American Concert Stage

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)

Please register online and join us by visiting www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-carol-j-oja-fellow-presentation.

Hailed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century, Marian Anderson used her talent and celebrity to advance civil rights. Her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial defied a ban excluding African American performers from Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, and her 1955 debut at the Metropolitan Opera ended the Met’s exclusion of African American singers in starring roles. This lecture—which includes audio...
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2016 Sep 23

Global American Studies Symposium

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
THIS LOCATION IS CONFIRMED: Emerson Hall 105 (Harvard Yard)
Postdoctoral Fellows Megan Black, Christopher Clements, Destin Jenkins, and Stuart Schrader will offer brief presentations of their work, and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies. Also present and participating will be Beverly Gage (Yale University), Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University), Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt University), and Richard White (Stanford University)
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2016 Sep 22

Daniel James (Indiana University- Workshop Guest)

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Title: “After the Catastrophe: Requiem for a Frigorifico.” Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.

Along with review of the pre-circulated paper, please also view this video file, especially minutes 28 to 45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERwCAeEGqg. (Note: we anticipate an English translation of at least part of this video to be available before Prof. James’ presentation.)

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