History of Global Capitalism Student Presentations

"A British Slaveowner in Suriname: Trans-imperial Plantation Politics and the Creation of the Second Slavery"
Marten Dondorp, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Commentator: Valerie Werder, PhD Candidate in Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University

"Quantifying Rural Surplus Labor in China: Economic Thought in the Reform Era"
Ziwei Zhang, PhD...

“Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom),” a graduate student conference in Book History based at Harvard, Yale, and Brown. Hosted by Harvard this year, on Zoom.

Please click here for the Zoom registration link.

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Serhii Plokhii, Director, Ukrainian Research Institute; Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Moderated by Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center; Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

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Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Speaker: Marcel Garboś, Doctoral Student, Department of History, Harvard University

Moderator: Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

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Hosted by the Harvard Environmental History Working Group

Sujit P. Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)  

For Zoom access information, please email Joyce Chaplin: chaplin [at] fas.harvard.edu

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Program Specialist for the Office of Digital Humanities - National Endowment for the Humanities, will be leading an information session about the process of applying for NEH-ODH grants, particularly the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants. Recent Harvard NEH-ODH grant recipients include Jinah Kim (Mapping Color in History), Kelly O'Neill (Imperiia: An Information Ecosystem for Russian History), and Peter Bol (...

The Griot Museum of Black History and the Harvard University Commonwealth Project present, In the City: Memories of Black Presence.  This group exhibition reflects the visual perspectives of six St. Louis photographers and filmmakers who documented relevant places, people, and experiences across the ever-changing city. In this virtual event, the In The City Fellows fuse their voices in dialogue that reveals the individual and collective creative process that helped the discover their own unique connection to the land and life of the city. 

Moderated by De Nichols...

Christy Coleman, Executive Director, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History Harvard University

Moderated by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University

American historian Christy Coleman is the distinguished lecturer for the 2021 ...

“Countervailing Power? Capital and Labor, 1948-65.”
Charles S. Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University

Comment:
Rose Kösters, PhD Candidate in History, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands
Prabhu Mohapatra, Professor of History, University of Delhi, India

We will meet at 10:00 AM EST (East Coast United States- please note the new US start time due to daylight savings).

11:00...

“Countervailing Power? Capital and Labor, 1948-65.”
Charles S. Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University

Comment:
Rose Kösters, PhD Candidate in History, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands
Prabhu Mohapatra, Professor of History, University of Delhi, India

We will meet at 10:00 AM EST (East Coast United States- please note the new US start time due to daylight savings).

11:00...

Hosted by the Harvard Environmental History Working Group

In Search of Their Gardens: Toward a Black Feminist Ecocriticism 
Carlyn E. Ferrari (Seattle University) 

For Zoom access information, please email Joyce Chaplin: chaplin [at] fas.harvard.edu