[Daviscalendar-list] Please join us Monday, March 15 for Nowruz!

Please join us for Harvard's fourth annual Nowruz Celebration, featuring traditional food, drink, and a cultural program of music and poetry! Date: Monday, March 15, 2010 Time: 05:15 PM - 06:45 PM Location: Harvard University Barker Center, Thompson Room, located between Quincy and Prescott Streets, next to the Harvard Faculty Club. About Nowruz: Nowruz (literally "New Day") is the New Year celebration marked by the Vernal Equinox, and is celebrated across a large part of the Middle East, Central/Inner Asia, the Caucasus, as well as the greater Iranian and Turkic cultural spheres of influence. We'll be holding this Nowruz event as an occasion for scholars, students, and teachers of history and cultural studies to meet each other and learn about the holiday and the many ways people come together to celebrate the New Year. The cultural program will feature a discussion and presentation of classical Persian music and poetry. In addition, the we will have information for teachers on bringing holidays like Nowruz into the classroom. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Contact Email: pberan(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pberan@fas.harvard.edu> -- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu