“Communities of Book History”
13th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History

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“The Toxic Detritus of Industry Beyond Borders: The Hazardous Waste Trade Between West Germany, Turkey, and the Global South, 1986-1989”
Matthew Sohm, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: Hans-Helmut Kotz, Visiting Professor of Economics, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Student...

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The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
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Read more about (HIGHS Seminar)"The Gulf War: Sovereignty, Statehood, and Illusive Visions of Post-Cold War Middle East Order"

Panelists: Dara Kwayera Imani Bayer (Brown University), Camila Pelsinger (Brown University), Sofia Meadows (Unity Circles)

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If abolition demands a world without police, prisons, or punishment, transformative justice is the organized effort to imagine and enact the structures that will take their place. This...

Read more about Abolitionists in Action: Transformative Justice and the University with Mariame Kaba and TJ Practitioners

Speaker: Afua Cooper (Dalhousie University)

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For access to the workshop paper, please email: cwc@fas.harvard.edu

Read more about Dalhousie University, the Black Refugees, Nova Scotia, and Caribbean Slavery

Holger Droessler, Assistant Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Commentators:
Kristin Oberiano, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Read more about Book Talk: Coconut Colonialsm: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Professor Nicolas Delalande from Sciences Po will be talking about his new work on the state, citizenship, and political economy. He is the editor, most recently, of A World of Public Debts. A Political History and France in the World. A New Global History. To register and to receive the event location please email ... Read more about A World of Public Debts. A Political History and France in the World. A New Global History

The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
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Read more about HIGHS Seminar: “The Religious Case for Revolution: Global Ecumenism and the Anti-Marcos Movement, 1965-1986”

Speaker: Sam Shuman, Rabin-Shvidler Joint Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Fordham University and Columbia University

Chair: Derek Penslar. William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 

This seminar centers around a 2017 city-branding campaign, “In Antwerp We Speak Diamond! Diamond Capital Since 1447.” Jointly engineered by PR representatives from Antwerp’s diamond...

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New technologies can renew our capacity to envision and pursue more sustainable, vibrant, and democratic cities. At the same time, many of our current challenges result from unintended consequences of innovations once hailed as solutions. This event aims to address how urbanists today should make sense of the potentials and limits of computational approaches. Instead of prepared remarks, two panelists will respond to questions pre-submitted by the audience at registration.

Speakers will respond to questions or comments submitted in advance. Please include yours with your...

Read more about Street Smarts + Smart Cities: A Conversation about Urban Life and Data Science

HMUI Urban Conversations aim to pair visiting scholars with Harvard faculty or graduate students as respondents. Our goal is to create a space for scholars to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community of urbanists.

 

Speaker: Dan McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester

Respondent: ...

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“'Survival in an Age of Revolution': Charles Malik, Imperial Sovereignty, and Global Counterrevolution"
Nate George, Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program.

Grad Student Commentator: Rustam Khan, PhD Candidate in History...

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“Frontier Moves: A Global History of Emerging Markets”
Ravinder Kaur, WIGH Fellow 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Faculty Commentator: Sophus Reinert, Professor of Business...

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Speaker: Simon Newman (University of Wisconsin)

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Read more about History Matters: British Universities, Slavery, and the Politics of National Memory

Weatherhead Forum with Weatherhead Initiative on Global History

Moritz von Brescius, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies and affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for Global Transformation/Initiative for Global History (WIGH) Author of German Science in the Age of Empire (2020). Current work on rubber plantation production in Southeast Asia.

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Read more about "Unequal Encounters: A Recurrent Dynamic of Global History"