History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Room 125 (former lower library), registration required
Hosted by the Center for History & Economics at Harvard University; and supported by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the University of Birmingham, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Early modern Europeans were haunted by the problem of religious difference. Perhaps even more fundamentally, they were haunted by the question of...
CGIS South Building, Room S-354, 1730 Cambridge Street
Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar
From the 1750s to the late 1780s, the sultan of Morocco, Muhammad Ibn Abdallah, implemented a policy to ransom a large number of enslaved Muslim men and women across Mediterranean Europe (from Spain to Italy). This policy became more and more ambitious to the point that the Moroccan sultan used significant funding to ransom an increasing number of captives. By 1777, he advocated for the liberation of all the women and the eldest across the Mediterranean, be they Christians or Muslims. The presentation will explore the...
Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on Broadway)
The lecture is sponsored by Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Dept.
The speaker will be discussing -- and asking the audience to ponder -- her favorite questions. How should we be thinking about women artists these days? Can we integrate them into art history's narratives in a way that lasts? And how, exactly, do they keep getting erased?