Our Seminars

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A01 - 
Boston's Changing Urban Vision: Urban Design and Architecture in the 21st Century
   
Scholar:
Robert Kroin
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/12/2008, 11/18/2008, 12/1/2008

   
A02 - 
Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt
   
Scholar:
Rita Freed
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
2/4/2009, 2/12/2009

   
A03 - 
European Art at the MFA
   
Scholar:
Miriam Braverman
 
Location:
Museum of Fine Arts
   
Dates:
3/4/2009, 3/18/2009, 3/25/2009

   
A04 - 
Art, Power, and Politics in the Ancient World
   
Scholar:
Richard Grossmann
 
Location:
Museum of Fine Arts
   
Dates:
11/20/2008, 12/4/2008

   
A05 - 
Japanese Art from Jomon to Modern
   
Scholar:
Judith Dowling
 
Location:
Off Campus
   
Dates:
11/3/2008, 11/17/2008

   
A06 - 
Unraveling French Cinema
   
Scholar:
T. Jefferson Kline
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
12/4/2008, 12/11/2008

   
A07 - 
Comic Form and Film
   
Scholar:
Julie Levinson
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
2/4/2009, 2/11/2009

   
A08 - 
Ballets Russes
   
Scholar:
Christine Temin
 
Location:
Off Campus
   
Dates:
5/7/2009, 5/15/2009, 5/20/2009

   
A09 - 
The Voice of Jazz
   
Scholar:
Thomas Everett
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/4/2008, 12/8/2008, 1/26/2009

   
A10 - 
Behind the Scenes at the Huntington Theatre
   
Scholar:
Donna Glick
 
Location:
Off Campus
   
Dates:
1/23/2009, 3/19/2009, 5/1/2009

   
A11 - 
Rock Thy Brain! Shakespeare--Flesh, Blood and Bones
   
Scholar:
Marya Lowry
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/13/2008, 11/14/2008

   
A12 - 
Women in Art and Music: Lives and Art Revealed
   
Scholar:
Virginia Eskin
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/4/2009, 3/11/2009

   
A13 - 
Manifesting Meaning: A Collage and Assemblage Studio Seminar
   
Scholar:
Susan Erony
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/17/2008, 12/1/2008, 12/15/2008

   
A14 - 
Contemporary Craft in New England
   
Scholar:
Christine Temin
 
Location:
Off Campus
   
Dates:
3/17/2009, 3/27/2009

   
H01 - 
Eating Cultures: Boston Locations and their Foodways
   
Scholar:
Merry White
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
10/30/2008, 11/6/2008, 11/13/2008

   
H02 - 
Women in the Modern Muslim World
   
Scholar:
Maura A. Henry
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
2/10/2009, 2/26/2009, 3/12/2009

   
H03 - 
From Repression to Democracy: Post-Franco Spain
   
Scholar:
Margery Resnick
 
Location:
MIT
   
Dates:
12/11/2008, 12/17/2008, 1/12/2009

   
H04 - 
Out of Africa: Tales from Morocco and South Africa
   
Scholar:
Diana Wylie
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
10/31/2008, 11/7/2008

   
H05 - 
The Image Of Russia In American Culture
   
Scholar:
Harlow Robinson
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
12/2/2008, 12/12/2008

   
H06 - 
Seven Deadly Sins
   
Scholar:
Aviad Kleinberg
 
Location:
Tufts
   
Dates:
11/12/2008

   
H07 - 
Cracking India: Fictions and Histories
   
Scholar:
Sharmila Sen
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
4/7/2009, 4/15/2009

   
H08 - 
A Caravan of Rugs
   
Scholar:
Marion Nina Amber
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/10/2009, 3/18/2009

   
H09 - 
Boston on the Eve of Revolution, 1763-76
   
Scholar:
William M. Fowler, Jr.
 
Location:
Mass. Historical Soc.
   
Dates:
10/28/2008, 11/7/2008

   
H10 - 
Greenwich Village 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman
   
Scholar:
Mary Jane Treacy
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
12/2/2008, 12/9/2008, 12/16/2008

   
H11 - 
Baseball is Life, You Can Look It Up
   
Scholar:
Sol Gittleman
 
Location:
Tufts
   
Dates:
11/12/2008, 11/19/2008

   
H12 - 
Art of the People: Communism, National Socialism, and the New Deal
   
Scholar:
Susan Erony
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/9/2009, 3/16/2009, 3/30/2009

   
H13 - 
The American Presidency and Presidents through History and Film
   
Scholar:
Maura A. Henry
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
10/28/2008, 11/6/2008

   
H14 - 
Understanding The Rebirth of American Feminism: A Long View-1940-1970
   
Scholar:
Andrea Walsh
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/23/2009, 1/30/2009

   
H15 - 
American Protest Literature, From Tom Paine To Tupac
   
Scholar:
John Stauffer
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/5/2009, 3/13/2009

   
H16 - 
Who Knew? Ancient Roman Law
   
Scholar:
Ray Starr
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/3/2009, 3/17/2009

   
H17 - 
Globalization: Challenges, Opportunities
   
Scholar:
Lawrence Summers
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/3/2008

   
H18 - 
Words of War: Understanding Honor and Horror
   
Scholar:
Ann Murphy
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/21/2008, 12/5/2008

   
H19 - 
Lolita and the Ethical Dilemmas of Art
   
Scholar:
Leland De La Durantaye
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
4/7/2009, 4/14/2009

   
H20 - 
Three Modern Critiques of Religion: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
   
Scholar:
Charles Stang
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/7/2009, 1/15/2009, 1/22/2009

   
H21 - 
Shakespeare's Sonnets
   
Scholar:
Ramie Targoff
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/14/2009, 1/21/2009

   
H22 - 
Making It in America: Movie Heroes in the 50's and 60's.
   
Scholar:
Theo Theoharis
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/19/2008, 12/3/2008, 12/10/2008

   
H23 - 
Read Proust? Are You Serious?
   
Scholar:
Barbara Carlson
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/6/2009, 3/19/2009, 4/3/2009

   
H24 - 
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
   
Scholar:
Elisa New
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/13/2009, 3/20/2009

   
H25 - 
The Moment of Truth: James Joyce's Dubliners
   
Scholar:
Theo Theoharis
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
10/24/2008, 10/31/2008

   
H26 - 
Bilingual/Bicultural Lives
   
Scholar:
Isabelle DeCourtivron
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/30/2009, 2/10/2009

   
H27 - 
From the Arabian Nights to the Garden of Forking Paths: The Short Story in World Literature
   
Scholar:
Jonathan Bolton
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/31/2009, 5/5/2009

   
H28 - 
Attachments and Connections: Austen's Sense and Sensibility
   
Scholar:
Marcia Folsom
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/9/2009, 1/16/2009

   
H29 - 
Problem Children: Romeo and Juliet, A Catcher in the Rye, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
   
Scholar:
Theo Theoharis
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/3/2009, 3/12/2009, 3/19/2009

   
H30 - 
The Ink Will Outlast You: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
   
Scholar:
Michael Downing
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/30/2009, 2/6/2009

   
H31 - 
Gothic Short Stories and Rare Books at the Boston Athenaeum
   
Scholar:
Cheryl Nixon
 
Location:
Boston Athenaeum
   
Dates:
4/29/2009, 5/13/2009

   
H32 - 
The Right Book at the Right Time: Quality Fiction and Nonfiction in Children's Books
   
Scholar:
Eden Edwards
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/18/2009, 3/25/2009

   
H33 - 
Poetry Across Cultures
   
Scholar:
Judith Steinbergh
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/6/2008, 11/13/2008, 12/4/2008

   
H34 - 
Reading Dante's Inferno
   
Scholar:
Rachel Jacoff
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
10/29/2008, 11/12/2008

   
H35 - 
Writing in an Age of Spin
   
Scholar:
Lucy Marx
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/9/2009, 1/23/2009, 2/6/2009

   
H36 - 
The Sonnet; a Reading and Writing Workshop
   
Scholar:
Aidan Rooney
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
2/6/2009, 2/27/2009

   
H37 - 
Real Boys: Hearing Their Voices, Changing Their Worlds
   
Scholar:
Bill Pollack
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
12/5/2008, 12/12/2008, 12/19/2008

   
H38 - 
English Etymology through Language and Literature
   
Scholar:
Graeme Bird
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/12/2009, 1/20/2009

   
H39 - 
Multiculturalism--Truth, Tool, or Travesty
   
Scholar:
Beth LaDow
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/13/2009, 1/22/2009

   
H40 - 
Feminism for the 21st century?
   
Scholar:
Sally Haslanger
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/21/2009, 1/28/2009

   
H41 - 
Identity and its Discontents: Beyond Sameness and Difference
   
Scholar:
Lynne Layton
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
12/11/2008, 12/19/2008

   
H42 - 
God's Universe in an Age of Controversy
   
Scholar:
Owen Gingerich
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
12/10/2008

   
H43 - 
Moral Leadership and Biblical Narrative: Self, Other, Action
   
Scholar:
Bernie Steinberg
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
5/6/2009, 5/13/2009

   
M01 - 
The Art of Counting without Counting
   
Scholar:
Ann Trenk
 
Location:
Wellesley
   
Dates:
1/16/2009, 1/23/2009

   
M02 - 
Linear Algebra is Everywhere!
   
Scholar:
Kim Ruane
 
Location:
Tufts
   
Dates:
12/1/2008, 12/9/2008

   
M03 - 
Chance and Fate: Great Ideas in Statistical Reasoning
   
Scholar:
Rick Cleary
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
2/5/2009, 2/12/2009

   
M04 - 
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
   
Scholar:
Deborah Hughes Hallett
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
3/16/2009, 3/20/2009

   
M05 - 
The Big Ideas of Algebra: What Students Really Need to Know
   
Scholar:
Deborah Hughes Hallett
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/7/2008, 11/14/2008

   
S01 - 
Science and the Media, the Fact Behind the Fiction
   
Scholar:
Kelly McLaughlin
 
Location:
Tufts
   
Dates:
1/30/2009, 2/6/2009

   
S02 - 
Games and Society
   
Scholar:
Scot Osterweil
 
Location:
MIT
   
Dates:
1/16/2009

   
S03 - 
Envisioning Science: More Than Pretty Pictures
   
Scholar:
Felice Frankel
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/19/2008

   
S04 - 
The Amazing Brain
   
Scholar:
John Dowling
 
Location:
Harvard University
   
Dates:
1/6/2009, 1/13/2009, 1/15/2009

   
S05 - 
The Evolution of the Mind
   
Scholar:
Peter Bergethon
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
2/3/2009, 2/9/2009, 3/5/2009

   
S06 - 
The Solar System and Beyond
   
Scholar:
Richard French
 
Location:
Wellesley
   
Dates:
1/9/2009, 1/16/2009, 1/23/2009

   
S07 - 
Storms, Forecasting and More: The Basics of Meteorology
   
Scholar:
David Epstein
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
11/14/2008, 11/18/2008, 11/21/2008

   
S08 - 
In Pursuit of the Gene
   
Scholar:
Jim Schwartz
 
Location:
Harvard Hillel
   
Dates:
1/12/2009, 1/20/2009, 1/26/2009