In this closing roundtable, Professors Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge) and David Armitage (Harvard University) return with Professor Joshua Simon (Johns Hopkins University) to explore what the "global" is, could be, and perhaps should be, in the theory and...

Professor David Armitage (Harvard University) will present his paper, “George III and the Law of Nations: A Global Intellectual Microhistory?".

Clare Anderson (Harvard University) will respond.

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Professor Robbie Shilliam (Political Science Department, Johns Hopkins University) will present his paper “Rastafari Reason and Eschatologies of Slavery: Besides Social Death and Before the New Human."

Panashe Chigumadzi (African and African American Studies, Harvard University) will discuss the paper.

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Professor Teren Sevea (Harvard University, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies) will present his ongoing work, "Islamic Socialism: Visions of Islamic Statehood and an Islamic International from the East".

Yi Ning Chang (Harvard University) will respond.

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Professor Rasoul Namazi (Duke University-Kunshan, China) will present his work on Leo Strauss's political philosophy and Islam.

Professor Thomas Meyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and ...

Dr. Or Rosenboim (Director of the Centre for Modern History, Department of International Politics at City, University of London) will present her paper, “A Food Utopia? Ideas of Plenty and Italian Colonialism in Libya before WWI."

Catey Boyle (History Department, Harvard University) will respond.

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Professor Shruti Kapila (Faculty of History & Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University) presents her new book, Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age, as well as her thoughts on the state and future of Indian political thought.

Kelvin Ng...

Presenting: Counterinsurgent Citizenship

Speaker: Renugan Raidoo

Discussant: Steven Robins (University of Stellenbosch)

Renugan Raidoo is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University. His research concerns lifestyle estates in the Gauteng city region, their political economic origins, and their social and spatial consequences. Previous research has focused on secrecy and homophobia in urban Sierra Leone. His dissertation research has been funded by...

Speaker: Richard Cellini (The Georgetown Memory Project)

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Presenting: É Maluqueira!: Thinking Through Madness in the Age of Neoliberalization in Post-War Angola

Discussant: Nana Osei Quarshie (Yale University)

Selina Makana is an Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching focus on African women’s social history, gender and militarism, transnational feminisms, and African diaspora studies. Her current monograph uses oral interviews with former women combatants and archival records to probe the relationship between gender...

Monsters, Cyborgs, and Vases: Apparitions of the Yellow Woman

What does it mean to be a human ornament, to be a subject who survives as or through crushing objecthood? What is beauty for the unbeautiful?

This talks takes a series of humanoid objects – monsters, cyborgs, and standing vases – as fulcrums through which to explore how racialized gender, specifically the specter of the yellow woman, animates the designs of futurity and enables the slippage between the human and the inhuman so fundamental to the dream of modernity.

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Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, featuring three flashtalks:

Neil Safier (History, Brown), “The Colonial Encyclopedia”

Hannah Marcus (History of Science, Harvard), “Contagion and the Collections at Harvard”

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (English, Yale), "Required Reading"

Followed by “choose your own breakout rooms.”

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Talks by the Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellows of the Warren Center ~ discussion to follow ~

Speaekers:

Sara Awartani “Solidarities of Liberation, Visions of Empire: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and American Global Power”

Kris Klein Hernandez “Militarizing the Borderlands: The Reconstitution of the Army and the Making of the Mexico-U.S. Divide, 1846-1917”

Evan Taparata “Refuge of Oppression: The Making of the United States Refugee Regime”

Ida Yalzadeh “Solidarities and Solitude: Tracing the Racial Boundaries of the Iranian...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Valentina Fusari
Presenting: From Interracial Sexuality to Mixed Kinship in (Post)colonial Eritrea

Discussant: Sebastian Jackson (Harvard University)

Valentina Fusari is currently postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia (Italy). Her research is broadly rooted in demographic anthropology, social history, and colonial demography, and promoted an interdisciplinary perspective. Her research interests include the dynamics of fertility, hidden...