November 2023 - HGSA

bagel day!

by Bohm, Lauren

they're here <3

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YOU’RE INVITED! KUUMBA’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT 12/1 & 12/2 @8PM

by Anderson, Keziah

Hello all, Hope everyone is doing well! I just wanted to pass along information about this year's Kuumba winter concerts next weekend Friday & Saturday (12/1-12/2). Ticket and livestream info are included below. Kuumba is Harvard's oldest Black student organization and is committed to celebrating Black artistic expression. We should have a pretty great music line up this year! Let me know if you have questions! Keziah Anderson *“A Season of Hope"* *The Annual Dr. S Allen Counter and Dean Archie C. Epps Winter Concert* [image: 1ac4507126c14f99a94b384f254824e7.jpeg] Come attend Our Annual Winter Concert on the evenings *of December 1st and 2nd at 8 PM in Memorial Church!* Get tickets here <https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::lo…>! *Tickets are FREE when picked up at the Harvard Box Office <https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::lo…> * For those joining us from afar, Saturday’s concert will be live streamed at the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College YouTube Page <https://www.youtube.com/@thekuumbasingersofharvardc8446/streams>. The Kuumba Singers’ winter concert is an unabashed celebration of Kuumba, a choir fellowship founded by Black undergraduate students who sought safe harbor in a strange land. Join us in celebrating Black creativity, spirituality, and artistic expression.

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Faculty Coffee Chat on November 27, 2023 at 2 PM (Dr. Sven Beckert)

by Sanjay K. Paul

Dear Everyone, The History Department and HGSA are excited to announce that the final Faculty Coffee Chat of the fall semester will be held on Monday, November 27 between 2 PM and 3:30 PM in the Graduate Lounge. All graduate students are welcome to attend. There will be free coffee, tea, and pastries from Flour Bakery. Our guest this month is Dr. Sven Beckert. Dr. Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard. He is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States and global capitalism. He has published books and essays about bourgeois class formation, slavery and economic growth, and commodity frontiers. Most recently, he is the author of *Empire of Cotton: A Global History*. He is currently writing a global history of capitalism. If you are interested in capitalism, global history, or would just like to get to know Professor Beckert, please attend the Coffee Chat on November 27. We look forward to seeing you there! Sanjay

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Invitation to Two American Studies Workshop Events! 11/27 and 12/8

by Suarez, Andrew

Hello all! My name is Andrew Suárez, and I'm one of the graduate coordinators for the American Studies Workshop. We currently have two exciting events coming up, and I would love to invite any interested History graduate students to attend! First, we will have an alt-ac panel about museum, library, and archive work with Brenda Tindal <https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/02/brenda-tindal-named-inaugura…>, the inaugural FAS Chief Campus Curator of Visual Culture, and Molly Taylor-Poleskey <https://www.taylor-poleskey.net/>, the Harvard Map Librarian. The panel will be on *Monday, November 27th at 5 pm in the Kresge Room* in the Barker Center. Food will be provided! If you would like to attend, please RSVP here <https://forms.gle/n5iuJMd3dbHZ5rG56>. Second, I would like to plug our upcoming guest speaker event with Professor Iyko Day from Mount Holyoke College on *Friday, December 8th at 5 pm in the Thompson Room* in Barker. Prof. Iyko Day <https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/faculty-staff/iyko-day> will be giving her talk entitled "Racial Capitalism and Crisis after Black Marxism." She is the author of *Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism* and works across Asian-American Studies, Marxism & racial capitalism, and settler colonial studies. If you would like to attend, please RSVP here <https://forms.gle/iG8fNXd8Riy3yWJj8>. Food will be provided! Thank you so much, Andrew Suárez Co-Coordinator, American Studies Workshop P.S.: If you would like, you can also join the listserv for the American Studies Workshop here <https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/amstudworkshop.lists.fas.ha…> .

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happy hour!

by Sener, Saffron

tonight! at 6pm! in the grad lounge! see you there...... [image: image.png]

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RALLY 4.30 TODAY and General Membership Meeting today at 6 PM!

by Catey Boyle

Comrades!! Two exciting events today: Since 11am today, a group of Jewish undergrads have been conducting a sit in University Hall in solidarity with Palestine and in concert with other Jewish students and protestors across the nation today. If you are free, please *JOIN* *THE RALLY AT THE HARVARD STATUE TODAY, 11/16 AT 4:30PM *to support these peaceful protestors!! The administration is not letting anyone in or out, which means these students are not able to receive food or other items friends had planned to bring them during this protest. The organizers are really hoping for a large turnout, and there is a special request for grad student workers to show up, so please join if you can! *6pm TONIGHT 11/16 *is the *HGSU November General Membership Meeting (GMM)*. Please see the email below for more details. Among other topics, we will be discussing and voting on the statements previously sent to Membership Comment and Review (MCR). As a social sciences steward, I have made it extremely clear to union organizers that the biggest frustrations many folks have is the length and monotony of meetings. This is bound to be a long monotonous meeting BUT! The bylaw amendments being discussed today can potentially help make future meetings go more smoothly. Please register using the info from the forwarded email below, and if you can only last for a bit of the meeting, log in when you can and be sure to vote! Reach out with any questions and solidarity forever. All best, Catey ---------- Messaggio inoltrato --------- Da: HGSU-UAW: Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW < info+hgsu-uaw-info(a)email.actionnetwork.org> Data: gio 16 nov 2023 alle 08:01 Oggetto: General Membership Meeting today at 6 PM! A: <catey.boyle(a)gmail.com> [image: HGSU-UAW Local 5118: a union of student workers at Harvard University] <http://harvardgradunion.org?link_id=0&can_id=164359ba94aac91553838c58b674ae…> Come join us at our monthly general membership meeting today at 6 PM over zoom - you can register for the zoom link here <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhvOjz4X_6h…> ! Here <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/CMxF4nARlf6wAFa1PSfv0pxLN8zuXd…> is the agenda for today’s GMM. Among other things, we will be discussing proposed amendments to the bylaws relating to election of stewards <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/CMxF4nARlf6wAFa1PSfv0pxLN8zuXd…>, asynchronous voting <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/CMxF4nARlf6wAFa1PSfv0pxLN8zuXd…>, and recall of executive officers <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/CMxF4nARlf6wAFa1PSfv0pxLN8zuXd…> . If you missed last month’s meeting, you can view the minutes from October’s GMM here <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/CMxF4nARlf6wAFa1PSfv0pxLN8zuXd…> . Register here! <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhvOjz4X_6h…> Sent via ActionNetwork.org <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/O93kI8o-kT9cRvZ9zJLPP23W7H9qpH…>. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW (HGSU-UAW), please click here <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/P8Elou2Rvc0qoMPEUZrMXcOpy_XqN4…>.

5 months, 2 weeks

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you know what day it is!

by Bohm, Lauren

bagels are in the lounge :) Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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Nov 20 Global Environments Workshop

by Moses, Nathaniel

Dear all, I am happy to share that the Global Environments Workshop will meet on Monday, November 20th, 5:45 - 7 at 9 Kirkland Place. We will discuss Jason Chan's dissertation prospectus, "Forging the Third Pole: Tibet, Steel, and the Global Extreme-Environmental History of the People's Republic of China, 1956-2006." Please RSVP by emailing me (nathanielmoses(a)g.harvard.edu) to receive a copy of the prospectus. We look forward to seeing you there! Abstract: Forging the Third Pole: Tibet, Steel, and the Global Extreme-Environmental History of the People’s Republic of China, 1956-2006 Fathomed from the towering height of the Tibetan Plateau, the history of socialist development and science in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) takes on a distinct hue. For three decades, benefitting from the plethora of grassroots sources and access to municipal and county archives, PRC historians have centered rural China and cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin in conceptualizing Maoism. Abstracting Han Chinese’s experiences through successive campaigns in the Mao Zedong era (1949-1976), these works have defined Maoism as the shared grammar for labor-intensive, urban-biased rural development; mass and political participation in knowledge production; ideological remolding of society; “war against nature;” and anti-imperialism. My dissertation elucidates how the extreme environments of Amdo (Qinghai) and Central Tibet (Xizang) had redefined Maoism. Threaded with the construction of the Qinghai-Xizang (Qingzang) Railway between 1956 and 2006, it argues that Maoism belied its revolutionary rhetoric in that it was technocratic, colonial, and—at the same time—global on the Tibetan Plateau; and that the reform era (1978-2012) saw not its retreat, but its consolidation. Utilizing internal-circulation scientific publications, archival documents, oral histories, as well as environmental data, this dissertation traces Chinese planners and scientists’ conceptualization of the Tibetan Plateau as the “Third Pole” and argues that industrialization on the Tibetan Plateau was not only entangled with that in Soviet Siberia and the North American Arctic through notions of their shared experiences, but, by the 1990s and 2000s, also became a source of emulation across global cold regions. It unearths the transnational, trans-polar history of development in PRC-era Tibet and, in doing so, proceeds to interrogate the extent to which international polar science participated in it. Best wishes, Nathaniel

5 months, 3 weeks

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REMINDER: Lunch/Job Talk Afro-Latin Search Candidate this Monday Daniel Ruiz-Serna

by Orozco Herrera, Dinah

> > Dear AAAS Graduate Students, >>> >>> >>> >>> Queridas, Queridos, Querides >>> >>> >>> >>> Dear Faculty and Graduate Students, >>> >> > In case you were not able to attend the job talks, here is the link > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aguxd9ZWaTSH2nHukCH6DkDg56zlk-M0/view?usp=…> > to the talk given by Miguel Valerio and Amber Henry: [image: mov icon] Amber > Henry Afro-Latin American Job Talk.mov > <https://hu.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/FAS-AAAS/EUAzRIStdcZHvaWAsPiVteQBKySGQ2i_KE…> > . > Please do not share this link with anyone outside of our community. > > The link below is for a Google form for you to submit your feedback on > the four candidates: Miguel Valerio, Amber Henry, Margarita Lila Rosa, and > Daniel Serna-Ruiz. Your comments will be anonymous unless you choose to > provide your name. If you have any questions or concerns please let me > know. > > Miguel Valerio - Google Forms > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17F1qMrRHnICRy2tbFjWbCALJQzwwDzjD7olrDZQcPU…> > > Amber Henry - Google Forms > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GgQCxeE35UMBAQgxQW_ubZ0lAK5F0vyad0ARLBVwuu…> > Anonymous Feedback Margarita Rosa - Google Forms <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FlHksERsNJi6ce5S_j0Cdimqu5YYbcsH1C_q8AYDpv…> Anonymous Feedback Daniel Ruiz-Serna - Google Forms <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r0upiWHT-PwYB3veEXK0vFjU25kX93mIV3W1BLJ0_7…> > Next Monday, November 1st, we will host the talk of at 4 PM in Sever 103. >>> We encourage everyone to attend. >>> >> >>> *GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCH* >>> >>> >>> >>> I’ll be facilitating the graduate student lunch meeting with A,mber >>> Henry on Monday from 12:00-1:15 PM. at Raines Library. Please plan to >>> attend, if possible, so you can personally meet, evaluate, and compare the >>> candidates and provide your feedback to the Search Committee. I’ll be >>> collecting feedback anonymously. (If you have any dietary restrictions or >>> allergies please contact Giovanna Micconi (micconi(a)fas.harvard.edu) >>> asap so she can alert the Raines Library in advance.). >>> >>> >>> *JOB TALK* >>> >>> >>> >>> The Job Talk will be held at *Sever Hall 103, *Harvard Yard (If you’re >>> unable to attend in person, a hybrid option is available). Recordings will >>> also be made available in the days following the talks, however, the Search >>> Committee kindly requests that you plan to attend the talks in person or on >>> Zoom if at all possible, to do so. We encourage everyone to attend in >>> person, but you can also participate via Zoom (linked below) for those who >>> cannot make it. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Details: >>> Guest lecture by Daniel Ruiz-Serna >>> Monday, November 6, 2023 >>> 4 PM ET >>> >>> Sever Hall 103, 25 Harvard Yard >>> >>> Cambridge, MA 02138 >>> >>> >>> Join Zoom meeting >>> >>> *https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96481035390?pwd=dS8wWG5INHVTQnFpanowbWtmZ3V3Zz09 >>> <https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96481035390?pwd=dS8wWG5INHVTQnFpanowbWtmZ3V3Zz09>* >>> >>> >>> >>> Password: 691082 >>> >>> >>> >>> Join by telephone (use any number to dial in) >>> >>> +1 301 715 8592 >>> >>> +1 305 224 1968 >>> >>> +1 309 205 3325 >>> >>> +1 312 626 6799 >>> >>> +1 646 931 3860 >>> >>> +1 929 436 2866 >>> >>> +1 669 900 6833 >>> >>> +1 689 278 1000 >>> >>> +1 719 359 4580 >>> >>> +1 253 205 0468 >>> >>> +1 253 215 8782 >>> >>> +1 346 248 7799 >>> >>> +1 360 209 5623 >>> >>> +1 386 347 5053 >>> >>> +1 507 473 4847 >>> >>> +1 564 217 2000 >>> >>> +1 669 444 9171 >>> >>> >>> >>> International numbers available: *https://harvard.zoom.us/u/adFtnOgbQ0 >>> <https://harvard.zoom.us/u/adFtnOgbQ0>* >>> >>> >>> >>> One tap mobile: +13017158592,,96481035390# US (Washington DC) >>> >>> >>> >>> Join by SIP conference room system. >>> >>> Meeting ID: 964 8103 5390 >>> >>> *96481035390.691082(a)zoomcrc.com <96481035390.691082(a)zoomcrc.com>* >>> >> > Do not miss each candidate's job talk and the meetings with us as graduate >>> students. These meetings will offer a good opportunity to give feedback. I >>> encourage everyone to attend irrespective of if your work is related to >>> Afro-Latin American Studies. >>> >>> >>> >>> If anyone has any questions or concerns, please contact me. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you & Ashé pa´nos! >>> >>> >>> Nos vemos prontito! >>> >>> >>> A jpeg poster for Daniel Ruiz-Serna´s talk is below and a pdf is also >>> attached >>> >>> >>> >>>

5 months, 3 weeks

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Happy Hour, Grad Lounge, TONIGHT!!

by Wilkerson, Kabl

Hi all, don't forget Happy Hour it's tonight!!! @ 6:00

5 months, 3 weeks

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