Past Events

Global Studies Summer Workshop: Global Migration in the 21st Century

Join us Tuesday, July 21st for a webinar on Brooklyn Heights.

Volcanoes, Climate Change, and Modern Human Migrations across Africa https://peabody.harvard.edu/node/943 Christian Tryon, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Lecture. Free and open to the public. Thursday, May 8, 7:00 pm. Geological...

Cutting for Stone - May 2014 Join the Committee on African Studies for a discussion of "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Varghese, a novel which moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York through generations. This session will feature...

Join the Harvard Global Health Institute and the South Asia Institute for a discussion of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to...

Join the Asia Center for a discussion of Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village , featuring discussant Professor Karen Thornber, Comparative Literatures and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the...

Join the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for a discussion of Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz with CMES Arabic Preceptor and scholar Sami Alkyam. Legendary Egyptian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, Naguib Mahfouz writes about shifting...

Join the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) for a discussion of Cristina Garcia's novel, Dreaming in Cuban. The session will be moderated by Rainer Schultz, Fellow, DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program. Garcia's first book, Dreaming in...

Join the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for a discussion of Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov, featuring the author herself in conversation. Published in 2006 and described by the Washington Post as "sophisticated, ironic and witty...

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