"I have truly had a spectacular experience as a history concentrator at Harvard and am very proud to brag about my department to anyone who will listen!” Arjun, ’17
"So many of my best college memories are related to the History Department” Sama, '17
"The History department genuinely has been one of the best parts of my experience at Harvard... History has prepared me well for life after college..." Olivia, ‘17
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall (WCC), 18 Everett Street (corner with Mass Ave) room 3008.
A talk by Prof. Silvia Di Paolo (Law Faculty, University of Roma III, Italy), with the title “Restitution: How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Late Medieval canon law”
Abstract: This talk will examine how the Augustinian principle "Sin is not wiped out unless the ill-gotten gains are returned," led to the development of a particular vision of justice and economic equity in medieval canon law. This vision held that every illicit form of appropriation and gain was an injury to equality and justice that was reparable only by means of restitution....
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History as Book History," Barker Center 133, Harvard. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book