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Monday:

• 12:15 p,  “‘Mexico: How to Avoid Being Kidnapped, Jailed or Killed While Reporting.” (DRCLAS) Rafael Fernández de Castro, Harvard University. CGIS S-250, 1730 Cambridge St., 12:15 p.m. Free and open to the public.
• 7 pm. Mobile Monday Boston is having a holidays meeting on Monday December; ard Pub in Cambridge, between MIT and Central Square.

Tuesday:

• 5:15 pm. Tue., Dec. 11 – “Mapping Sacrifice on Bodies and Spaces in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.” (Women’s Studies in Religion Program/CSWR) Joan Branham, Providence College. CSWR Common Room, 5:15 p.m. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public. (617) 495-5705, esutton@hds.harvard.edu.
• 7pm. Cambridge Semantic Web Interest Group Meetup

Wednesday

• 12 pm. Wed., Dec. 12 – “Black Narrative and Poetry in Latin America.” (Du Bois Institute) Glenda Carpio, Harvard University. Thompson Room, Barker Center, noon. Feel free to bring a lunch. (617) 495-8508.

Thursday

• 7pm. Berkman Blog Group. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/

Friday
4 pm. Fri., Dec. 14 – “The Post Office in Japanese Politics and Society: What Will Change with Privatization.” (Reischauer Institute) Patricia MacLachlan, University of Texas. CGIS S-250, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs.