To Burn a Fireproof Building: Race and Risk in the 1970s Bronx https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/event/burn-fireproof-building-race-and-risk-1970s-bronx
Speaker: Bench Ansfield, American Democracy Fellow at Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University Respondent: Jacob Anbinder, PhD candidate in American History at Harvard University...
The Griot Museum of Black History and theHarvard University Commonwealth Project present In the City: Memories of Black Presence. This group exhibition reflects the visual perspectives of six St. Louis photographers and filmmakers who documented relevant places, people, and experiences across the ever-changing city. In this virtual event, the In The City Fellows fuse their voices in dialogue that reveals the individual and collective creative process that helped them discover their own unique connection to the land and life of the city.
BU History Department Conference Room, 226 Bay State Road, Room 504
Title: “ 'The Oldest Lecturer in the World!’: Sojourner Truth, Racial Justice, and the Political Significance of Longevity in Nineteenth-Century America"
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...
Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
"Fragile Universals: The Making of Racial Hierarchy in the League of Nations”
To order a lunch, email Monnikue McCall (momccall@fas.harvard.edu) by 5pm on Thursday, April 14. Include in your message an indication of any dietary restriction.
The Department of History of Science is glad to welcome Jonathan Sterne, James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology, Department of Art History & Communication Studies at Mcgill University, Montreal, to give a...
Title: "The Perilous State of Afghan Reconstruction"
Abstract: Fourteen years and $113 billion into America's attempt to create a secure, stable, and developing Afghanistan, the balance sheet on reconstruction features some successes, but also weak points and failures. Despite advances in schooling, life expectancy, communications, governance, and other areas, Afghanistan remains plagued with poverty, illiteracy, corruption, incapacity, and--partly because of these conditions--a stubborn insurgency. Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been stolen, lost, or wasted for lack of...
