Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual and Cultural History

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Past Events
Thursday, November 19, 2009
American Expatriates in Interwar Paris: A Reconsideration
Brooke Blower - Professor of History, Boston University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems"
Saul Friedlander
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Notes on the History of Scandal: Violette Nozière, 1933
Sarah Maza
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
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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
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