Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

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Upcoming Events
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Claude Lanzmann. Public talk on the occasion of the publication in English of his memoirs
Claude Lanzmann - filmmaker, writer and journalist
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:
 
Venue to be determined

 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Working Knowledge: Toward a History of the American Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century
Joel Isaac - Lecturer in the History of Modern Political Thought, Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Past Events
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Myth of Revolution
Dan Edelstein - Associate Professor of French; Europe Center Research Affiliate, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
From Culture to Culture: Nahum Glatzer, émigré Jewish scholar, disseminator of European philosophy, and architect of academic Jewish Studies
Judith Wechsler - NEH Professor of Art History, Emerita, Tufts University
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, November 18, 2011
German Social Thought and the Question of Religion: A Day-Long Workshop
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Beyond the Language: Totalitarianism as a Key Concept of the 20th Century
Juan Francisco Fuentes - Director of the Group of Advanced Research (From Empire to Nation), Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Obscenity of Objectivity : Post-Holocaust Antisemitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dagmar Herzog - Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Radical Enlightenment's Critique of the American Revolution
Jonathan Israel - Professor of Modern European History, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, March 7, 2011
An Atheism that is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought
Stefanos Geroulanos - Assistant Professor of History, New York University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, March 3, 2011
Ideas of Terror and Terrorism in 20th-Century Europe
Julian Bourg - Associate Professor of History, Boston College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Christianity in Transatlantic Perspective: The Case of Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
Tal Howard - Professor of History, Gordon College
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, November 1, 2010
The Protestant Boomerang: What the Foreign Missionary Project Did to the United States in the 20th Century
David Hollinger - President, Organization of American Historians
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall

 

Friday, April 23, 2010
Symposium: The Future of American Intellectual History
Leslie Butler - Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Charles Capper - Professor of History, Boston University
David Hall - Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School
David Hollinger - President, Organization of American Historians
James Kloppenberg - Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, March 1, 2010
The Origins of Leo Strauss's Political Philosophy
Thomas Meyer - Max Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Status, Interest, and the Making of Foreign Policy: French Perspectives on the ‘Reversal of Alliances’ (1755–1756)
John Shovlin - Visiting Scholar, CES
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, November 19, 2009
American Expatriates in Interwar Paris: A Reconsideration
Brooke Blower - Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Of Empty Places: Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, or the End of the Affair
Warren Breckman - Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Genius and Geniuses in the Eighteenth Century
Darrin McMahon - Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Little Platoons of Society': Equality and Obligation in American Social Thought in the 1970s and 1980s
Professor Daniel Rodgers - Professor, Princeton University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Trauma, the Sacred, and the Sublime
Dominick Lacapra - Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
 
Thompson Room, Barker Center

 

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems"
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, March 16, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius
Detlev Claussen - Journalist and a Professor of Social Theory, Culture, and Sociology, University of Hanover
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Cosmopolitans in an Ethnonational Age? Jews and Austrians in the First Republic
Malachi Hacohen - Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, December 8, 2008
Rethinking Foucault: Terror, Horror, and the Execution of Damiens
Paul Friedland - Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College, Visiting Scholar at CES
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, November 21, 2008
Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline and Fall Revisited
J.G.A. Pocock - Harry C. Black emeritus professor, Johns Hopkins University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Cambridge Historians and the Contextual Approach to the History of Political Thought
Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Notes on the History of Scandal: Violette Nozière, 1933
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes
Quentin Skinner - Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall