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Chloe Chapin

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Chloe Chapin is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program, with an AM in History and secondary concentrations in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Classical Archaeology. In her dissertation, “Tailoring America: Masculinity in the Early...

Julio Aguilar

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Julio Aguilar received a PhD in History at UC Davis, specializing in environmental and Andean social history. At the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, he will expand the humanistic and interdisciplinary foundations of his first book tentatively...

Catherine H. Nguyen

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Catherine H. Nguyen earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her project Children Born of War, Adoptees Made by War: Vietnamese Diasporic Contestations of Empire and Race investigates the Vietnamese mixed...

Nicholas Myers

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Nicholas Myers is a historian of Mexico and the North American West. His book project, The Wayward Edge: Autonomy and Revolt in Greater Apachería, 1765-1896, is a longue durée history of Indigenous and peasant autonomy in the southern Rocky Mountains and...

Tyrants & Rebels: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon

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SPEAKERS: Rania Abouzeid, Alissa J. Rubin, and Robert Worth REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Three acclaimed journalists -- former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times Robert F. Worth; award-winning film and print journalist and 2019-20 Nieman Fellow...

Out of Place and Time: Thinking Migration through the Humanities

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Migration and the Humanities Speakers: Natalie G. Diaz, Yannis Hamilakis, Maaza Mengiste REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Migration seems to be a historical category of analysis with no clear beginning, middle, and end. It has allowed humanistic inquiry to re...

Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

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Speaker: Álvaro Santana-Acuña, Whitman College REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and...

Walter Johnson in Conversation with Cornel West on The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

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Speakers: Walter Johnson, Cornel West REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK A discussion of Walter Johnson's new book, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. From Lewis and Clark’s 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in...

Hidden Histories of U.S. Internationalists

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Speakers: Nancy Cott and Samuel Zipp Fascism encroaching on democracy -- the American populace riven with discord between ultranationalists and advocates of world responsibilities – public information warped by big lies—these current menaces echo perils...

Conversation on Covid-19 | Michael Willrich

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Speaker: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University Michael Willrich, Leff Families Professor of History, Brandeis University on his book, Pox: An American History in conversation with Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian History, Interim...