Chattel slavery in the United States ended 150 years ago, and yet its legacy reverberates today in harmful practices and beliefs that are still being perpetuated and continue to impact descendant communities in various ways – from education to healthcare to the economy and our criminal justice system.
We invite you to participate in the inaugural two-day symposium of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) initiative, Reckoning with History, Shaping Our Future. This symposium will feature powerful dialogues and performances that aim to educate...
The Harvard Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, the Department of Classics, Early Modern World at Harvard, and the Ancient Studies Program
Vellai Mozhi - Frankly Speaking is a powerful first-person account of a hijra-thirunangai-transfeminine experience in southern India. A. Revathi enacts her life as a Tamil trans woman, stringing stories about finding community, navigating family...
Speaker: Adrienne L. Childs: Senior Consulting Curator, The Phillips Collection
This presentation is based on Childs's forthcoming book Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts. It is the first academic book of its kind to survey decorative...
This lecture will apply critical cartographic theory to border and territorial claimsmaking during the 2020 Karabakh war and its aftermath. In the wake of the war, the sudden appearance of a “hard” international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and subsequent (ongoing) contention on border regularization thrust maps and mapping into the public eye. Putting emphasis on the social implications of technological changes in spatial representation, McGlynn will discuss the analytical shift necessary to make sense of “democratization” of geospatial tools in a...