Thursday, September 10, 2020, 5:30pm

Mira Assaf Kafantaris, Ohio State University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

“Fantasies of Whiteness and Colonial...

Arisleyda Dilone, Director - Screening of Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito

This screening of the 16-minute documentary short Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito (Mom and Me and My Little Rooster) is part of the course Introduction to Latino/a Literature in the United States. The course provides an introduction to Latinx literatures and cultures in the United States from 1960 to the present, paying...

“The Legacy of Lygia Clark's Structuring of the Self”

Hispanic Cultures Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/legacy-lygia-clarks-structuring-self

Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/montaigne-fac%C3%A9tieux-lire-emles-essaisem-en-%C3%A9clats

Hispanic Cultures Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/immobile-selves-race-migration-and-belonging-era-mass-deportations

Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/pastoral-bronze-sculpture-early-modern-venice

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History

abstract: "In 1995, the UNESCO decided that World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated every year on April 23rd because it is on this date that Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This lecture will examine various encounters between Cervantes and Shakespeare by looking at their last words, by following their meeting in Valladolid imagined by Anthony Burgess and by  tracing the presence of Don Quixote  in England between 1605 and 1653". 

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The Cultural and Humanitarian Agents Seminar & The Symbolic Reparations Research Project

Present a conference on: Symbolic Reparations

Friday, March 31, 2017, 5:00-7:00pm, The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University

Saturday, April 1, 2017, 9:00am-12:00pm, 12:00PM-2:00pm and 2:30pm – 5:00pm, Harvard University

Sunday, April 2, 2017, 9:00am-1:00pm,  Boston University

 For schedule and details:...

The Cultural and Humanitarian Agents Seminar & The Symbolic Reparations Research Project

Present a conference on: Symbolic Reparations

Friday, March 31, 2017, 5:00-7:00pm, The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University

Saturday, April 1, 2017, 9:00am-12:00pm, 12:00PM-2:00pm and 2:30pm – 5:00pm,The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University

Sunday, April 2, 2017, 9:00am-1:00pm,  Boston University

 For schedule and details:...

The Cultural and Humanitarian Agents Seminar & The Symbolic Reparations Research Project

Present a conference on: Symbolic Reparations

Friday, March 31, 2017, 5:00-7:00pm, The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University

Saturday, April 1, 2017, 9:00am-12:00pm, 12:00PM-2:00pm and 2:30pm – 5:00pm, Harvard University

Sunday, April 2, 2017, 9:00am-1:00pm,  Boston University

 For schedule and details:...

Montaigne chez Esculape: Ecriture sceptique et modèle medical à la Renaissance

Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

Refreshments provided

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/talk-title-tba-46

Sponsors:  France and the World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center,  the Departments of History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Jewish Cultures and Societies seminar

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/right-difference-french-universalism-and-jews

France and the World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/subversion-concurrence-et-censure-la-guerre-des-th%C3%A9%C3%A2tres-%C3%A0-paris-au-si%C3%A8cle-des-lumi%C3%A8res

Martin Vega Olmedo

College Fellow

Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

6:30pm

Early colonial accounts of the conquest of Mexico meticulously inventory the gold and sundry tribute items (fine cloths, turquoise, jewels) acquired by conquistadors in the service of the Spanish monarchy. Yet, within these accounts, another set of gifts—indigenous tribute women—intermittently appear in conquest narratives written from the 16^th...