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...representative for the Iraqi History Project Etelle R. Higonnet drew attention to the under-reported phenomenon of sexual violence in Iraq yesterday during a lecture at Harvard Law School. As analysis director for the project, Higonnet called this widespread human rights violation “one of the most revolutionary, interesting and unknown things” in Iraq and said it was a significant aspect of the nation’s past and present struggle. The project, created and funded by the International Human Rights Law Institute at Depaul University, has gathered over 10,000 testimonies from victims, perpetrators...
...Livesey “has this new way of thinking about the Revolution,” says Goelet Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet, who taught Livesey when he was a grad student and remains close to the professor from the University of Sussex...
...Higonnet, a French scholar who has also written on the Revolution, says the book is about how the second half of the Revolution can be considered as the beginnings of a shift from traditional society to a modern liberal market society...
...wanted to show that these 18th=century revolutions were certainly anti-traditionalist revolutions, not capitalist revolutions,” Higonnet says. “Of all the great Western nations, France was the least enthusiastic about market societies...
...spring, Livesey, whom Higonnet called “very Irish in a bizarre way, although he doesn’t live in Ireland,” will be teaching a class in modern Irish history. He expects the class to be packed, because modern Irish history is rarely offered at Harvard. The last time the class was taught was in 1998 and 1999, when Livesey was a visiting lecturer...