Recent Program Events at Harvard
November 2006
November 9
Biblical Exchanges: The Hebrew Republic in Early Modern Europe
The Cambridge-Harvard Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political held a colloqium on Biblical Exchanges: The Hebrew Republic in Early Modern Europe on Thursday November 9 from 4.00pm to 6.00pm, in the Political Theory Seminar Room, CGIS N401. There were presentations by Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa University) and Eric Nelson (Harvard University).
Fania Oz-Salzberger spoke on "Seventeenth-Century Political Hebraism: Mapping the Field". Background reading: http://www.azure.org.il/magazine/magazine.asp?id=230&search_text=oz-salzberg
Eric Nelson spoke on "'Talmudical Commonwealthsmen' and the Rise of Republican Exclusivism". For a copy of his paper, please contact him at enelson@fas.harvard.edu.
November 1
Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
The series of informal conversations in which historians discuss their research experiences and sources with graduate students continued this semester. The meetings are organized by the Harvard-Cambridge Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760, and past events have included informal teas with C. A. Bayly and Bernard Bailyn. At 4:00pm on Wednesday, November 1, in Robinson Lower Library, the program hosted a conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and author of, among other books, 'Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War', 'Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, and 'A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South'. Graduate students in all departments were invited and encouraged to attend. For further information, please contact Angus Burgin (burgin@fas.harvard.edu) or Emma Rothschild (rothsch@fas.harvard.edu).
October 2006
October 27-28
The Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe
The Heidelberg session of the "Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe" Conference took place in the Department of History, South Asia Institute (SAI) at the University of Heidelberg between 27 and 28 October 2006. Papers were given by Sudipta Kaviraj, Ayesha Jalal, Manu Goswami, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Ben Zachariah, Dilip Menon, Reba Som, Amit Das Gupta, Doug McGetchin, Kate O’Malley, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Stanislava Vavrouskova, Claude Markovits, and Joachim Oesterheld. Click for the programme.
The Harvard Session of the "Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe" Conference took place October 28-29, 2005. The schedule can be found here.
June 2006
June 5
Bentham in the World
A one-day workshop, organised by Caitlin Anderson, took place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University on 5 June 2006. The workshop looked at the ideas and influence of Jeremy Bentham across the world. David Armitage, Chris Bayly and David Todd gave papers and other participants included Karuna Mantena, Uday Mehta, Jennifer Pitts, Emma Rothschild and Richard Tuck. Attendance and participation in the discussion was open to the academic community. Click for the programme. Click for a list of participants.
November 2005 November 22
Informal tea on the historian’s craft
Bernard Bailyn spoke about his work in one of a series of informal teas designed to bring together graduate students and distinguished historians. Lower Library, Robinson Hall.
October 2005 October 28-29
"Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe"
Conference (Harvard)
See: http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/hex/south_asia_conference.htm October 25
Informal tea on the historian’s craft
Chris Bayly spoke about his work in one of a series of informal teas designed to bring together graduate students and distinguished historians. Lower Library, Robinson Hall.
April 2005 April 16
Atlantic Legalities, 1500-1825
A workshop of the Atlantic History Seminar, organised by Caitlin Anderson in collaboration with the Centre for History and Economics, took place at Harvard University on 16 April 2005. The workshop concentrated on the roles of law in Atlantic history. Attendance and participation in the discussion was open to the academic community. Historians at the beginning of their career were especially encouraged to attend.
See: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/legal.html April 7
South Asian Intellectual History - A South Asian History Workshop at Tufts University
See: http://ase.tufts.edu/southasian/eventsworkshops.asp
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