Ancient Studies at Harvard

An all-day symposium on the ancient, medieval, and early modern world, featuring presentations by an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate scholars from Harvard College including Niyathi Chagatipati, Felix Chen, Peter Chen, Christine Corcoran, Jericho...

In his 1982 essay "Nonmoral Nature," the historian of science Stephen Jay Gould meditated on the role that morality should or should not play in our understanding of the natural world. Animals are neither evil nor kind, in Gould's view, and morality has...

The third Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies, featuring: 9:45 am: Opening remarks by Dr. Lauren Kaminsky, Director of Studies for the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, and Dr. Sean Gilsdorf, Administrative Director...

The formation of states often entails the creation of bureaucratic paradigms in the language(s) of the state, the formalization of educational institutions through which to train elites, and the canonization of textual corpora for pedagogical purposes...

The Dead Hand of the Past, a roundtable discussion featuring Sofia Carbonell Realme (English), Joe Currie (Committee on the Study of Religion), Reed Morgan (History), and Ana Luiza Nicolae (History of Science). Co-sponsored with Ancient Studies at Harvard...

A daylong event featuring presentations on the ancient, medieval, and early modern world by an interdisciplinary group of Harvard College students, with reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of Classics...

Chapurukha Kusimba (University of South Florida), What Role did Climate Change and Disease Play in the Decline and Collapse of Swahili Urbanism?

Chapurukha Kusimba (University of South Florida), Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Pre-Modern Eastern Africa.