February 2009

27 Feb

Devotional Fanscapes in Popular Culture: Rajinikanth Fan Club—A New Political Force?

Shalini Kakar (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, February 27 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture investigated the phenomenon of “devotional fandom” in the Rajinikanth Fan Club (RFC), exploring the ways in which the over 60,000 fan club...

13:23 / IHC Research Focus Groups

23 Feb

The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages

Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food...