Past Events

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SoHP Lecture: Gideon Avni on "'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East"
November 16, 2017
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EST
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HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street (4th Floor), Cambridge, MA
In Person
As part of the SoHP "What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire" Lecture Series, Dr. Gideon Avni, Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, will speak at...

Reccopolis Revealed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Visigothic Royal City
March 30, 2017
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5:30PM - 6:45PM EDT
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CGIS South S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Hosted by Michael McCormick The public lecture will be preceded by a workshop from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm on studies in progress involving Reccopolis. This workshop will feature talks and comments by all speakers. Chairs: Thomas Bisson, Harvard University...

Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, “The genetic history of plague: From the stone age to the 18th century via the Roman Empire”
February 16, 2017
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5:30PM - 6:45PM EST
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Barker Center: Thompson Room (12 Quincy Street, Cambridge)
In Person
Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, will speak on “The Genetic History of Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century via the Roman Empire” as part of the “What’s New in the...

Lecture Series: What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire
December 1, 2016
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5:15PM - 6:30PM EST
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CGIS South - S020 Belfer Case Study Room
In Person
Presenter: Michael McCormick Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History Chair, Steering Committee, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard "The Fall of the Roman Empire: How should we study it in the 21st century?" Chairing the talk will...

Young Investigator Symposium
October 29, 2016
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8:30AM - 12:30PM EDT
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Barker Center 114 (Kresge Foundation Room)
In Person
The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany), announces an opportunity for recent and graduating seniors and Master’s students to participate...

Contingency, Chance, and Determinism in Deep History
October 11, 2016
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT
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Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Douglas Erwin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Faculty Chair, Santa Fe Institute " Contingency, Chance, and Determinism in Deep History"