History and Culture

2014 Nov 14

From Revolution to Disillusion – Portugal’s Democracy after 40 Years

1:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall. 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge.

2014 marks the fortieth anniversary of the Portuguese transition to democracy. This conference will bring together scholars and policymakers from Portugal to discuss the impact of the transition and the country’s evolution in the last four decades.... Read more about From Revolution to Disillusion – Portugal’s Democracy after 40 Years

2014 Sep 29

Ludi, Ludic, Ludicrous: Choreographing Rome from Spartacus to Caligula

6:30pm

Location: 

Mahindra Humanities Center. Barker Center. Room 133.

RCC Fellow, Zoa Alonso Fernández, will be presenting this talk on ludics and dance.

The Seminar Ludics is chaired by Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard and Vassiliki Rapti, preceptor in Modern Greek and at Harvard University. It focuses on the concepts of play and games, widely interpreted. It aims at fostering an open dialogue among scholars who are interested in exploring the ludic principle across a...

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2014 Apr 29

Dance / Transit / Displacement: Perspectives on Cross-Temporal Reenactments, Cosmopolitan Modernisms and Diasporic Bodies.

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. CGIS South. Belfer Room. S020. 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge 02138

Please, join us for the celebration of the International Dance Day with a Dance Studies Panel.

Featured Presentations By Michelle Clayton (Brown University), Lester Tomé (Smith College, DRCLAS Harvard) and Zoa Alonso (RCC-Harvard). Moderated by Grete Viddal (Harvard University).

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