#  What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age? 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 22, 2013** 

 03:00PM - 05:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **CMES Seminar Sohbet-i Osmani is pleased to present a graduate student seminar** organized by

 **Afsaneh Najmabadi**  
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University; and,

 **Cemal Kafadar**  
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

 Students are asked to read the required readings and spend some time familiarizing themselves with various features of the website: Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran, [www.qajarwomen.org](http://www.qajarwomen.org/). Please come to the workshop with possible research projects that you imagine a multi-genre archive would make possible in your own area of research.  
  
Required Readings:  
Michael Amico, “Objects of Attraction at War: A Sword and Two Civil War Soldiers,” Images for Sword Presentation   
Afsaneh Najmabadi, [“Making (Up) an Archive: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?” ](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11297828)  
  
Recommended Readings:  
Robin Bernstein, *Racial Innocence*, Introduction and Chapter Two  
Laura Wexler, *Tender Violence*, chapter entitled “Seeing Sentiment.”

 ***Please note:*** *this event is open only to Harvard graduate students; **please RSVP to Liz Flanagan, <elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>***

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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