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Tag: Sven Beckert
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Nation & World
Saying their names
Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”
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Nation & World
Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now University must act
University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.
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Nation & World
Who is this museum for?
During a Harvard panel, experts discuss how displays and artifacts reflect choices about whose story is told, and how and why.
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Nation & World
Initiative on legacy of slavery at Harvard picks up steam
Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery is a new research effort that will drive scholarship and dialogue around the history and enduring legacy of slavery at the University.
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Nation & World
In Germany, learning while seeing
The Harvard Summer Program in Freiburg, Germany, seeks to broaden the outlook of 20 Harvard students, each of whom is paired with a German student from the University of Freiburg, though a combination of classroom teaching, excursions to important sites in the region, and exposure to the town and its people.
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Nation & World
Case for reparation gains international force
Distinguished scholar and activist Sir Hilary Beckles, who is leading the international effort to seek restitution from European nations that engaged in the slave trade in the Caribbean, made the case for reparations during a talk at Harvard Law School this week.
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Nation & World
Explaining ‘Capital’
Acclaimed French economist Thomas Piketty discusses his landmark text, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” one year after its publication in English.
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Nation & World
Harvard and slavery
A student research project and a resulting booklet and website bring to light some troubling connections to the College in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Nation & World
Expanding student learning abroad
Harvard President Drew Faust announced grants to six faculty members who are designing new international experiences for undergraduates, from new summer school programs in Kenya to studies in global health to other programs in Italy, Argentina, and Germany.
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Nation & World
Beckert tracks cotton trail
Sven Beckert, a professor of history with an expertise in 19th century America, is hoping to understand the roots of the global economic ties that bind the world today by…