Asia Center Seminar Series

Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research is on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions. Areas of particular interest include the history of public health and poverty, the history of migration, and environmental history. His most recent work has been on the Bay of Bengal as a region connecting South and Southeast Asia. He has a PhD in History (2005) from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Research Fellow of Trinity College (2004-6).

Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Seminar

Speaker:

Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Harvard University

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Economic History Workshop

Speaker: 

Richard Hornbeck, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
 
Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate....

Speaker(s): 

Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College; Center Associate, Davis Center

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

SPEAKER

Benjamin Frommer
Professor of History, Northwestern University

In 1938 the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia were full and free citizens of a democratic Czechoslovak Republic. In the country’s western regions Jews lived interspersed among gentiles and intermarried to a degree greater than...

CES Dissertation Workshop

SPEAKER

Liat Spiro
Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

CONTACT

Gili Kliger
kliger@g.harvard.edu

SPEAKER

Kristen Loveland
PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

SPEAKER
Aaron Donaghy
EU Marie Curie Global Fellow, Harvard, Cornell & University of Nottingham; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

Recent decades have seen international history approaches dominate the study of American foreign relations, and the late Cold War. Historians have assessed U.S. and Soviet policy at a state-to- state level, or through the dispositions of leaders, dividing attention between Washington and Moscow within the global context of the 1980s. With the end of the conflict, and the onset of...

Since the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States, a cottage industry of political classification and comparison has emerged. Terms like “fascism,” “authoritarianism,” “kleptocracy” and “demagoguery,” – to name just a few – have become commonplace in our political discourse. But what does it all mean? Are historical analogies, particularly to the European past, useful in trying to understand American politics today? Or is the Trump regime a class unto itself? Historians of Europe, Russia, and International Relations will share their perspectives on...

SPEAKER

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Professor of History, University of Chicago

CONTACTS

Peter E. Gordon
pgordon@fas.harvard.edu

Ethan Kleinberg
ekleinberg@wesleyan.edu

Samuel Moyn
smoyn@law.harvard.edu

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Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. Speakers: Wang Hui on China, David Armitage on the UK and Europe,  Malika Zeghal on the Mideast, Mahdav...

Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)

Laurence Fontaine (CNRS, EHESS)

Gareth Stedman Jones (University of London, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge)

Mahesh Rangarajan (Ashoka University)