Charles Warren Workshop on Slavery and the Universities

From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: Imprints of Racial Slavery and Higher Learning in the (Global) South

Zoom registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItc-uvpz8oE9PHgEj3dOtXkx6pxX13HXCz

The second installment in their winter series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Anita Hill, author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 2021). Her reading will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds... Read more about Book Talk With Anita Hill

“Modern Memories: The Public History of Industrial Heritage in Japan”
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: Jaewoong Jeon, WIGH Postdoctoral...

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The Countway Longwood Author Series hosts AAAS Professor Jarvis Givens in conversation with AAAS Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the immediate past president of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH).  The conversation will focus on Carter G.... Read more about Fugitive Pedagogy - Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

AAAS Professor Vincent Brown will give a talk, 'Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War,' in a virtual colloquium, part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series.  For more information and registration visit the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research's ... Read more about W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series, W/ Vince Brown

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute hosts a book talk with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.  The event will feature Dean Brown-Nagin reading from her recent book, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022) and include a discussion and Q&A with AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.  The event is free and open to the public with ... Read more about Book Talk w/Tomiko Brown-Nagin

 

The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs

Speaker: Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge
Comment: Yi Ning Chang, Harvard University

This session will take place remotely, using Zoom.
Please register in advance to receive the paper and the meeting link.

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"Global Rubber and the Temporalities of Ecological Imperialism"
Moritz von Brescius, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Lecturer, University of Bern

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"Empire of Poverty: The Poverty Politics of the Spanish Empire"   
Julia McClure, Lecturer in Late Medieval/Early Modern Global History, University of Glasgow

Faculty Commentator: ...

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Title: An Alternative History of Slavery and Universities: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Higher Learning

Speaker: Michael Jirik (Carleton College)

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conversation moderated by Cemal Kafadar with Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

Lauren Stokes is an Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University, where she teaches classes on German history and migration history. Her book Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Reunification in the Federal Republic of Germany...

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"To Burn a Fireproof Building: Race and Risk in the 1970s Bronx"

Speaker: Bench Ansfield, American Democracy Fellow at Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University 

Respondent: Jacob Anbinder,  PhD candidate in American History at Harvard University 

Chair: ...

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Seminar on Academic Knowledge:
Past and Future European Knowledge in Indian Tongues: Translating Political Economy in Colonial Delhi, c. 1840

Speaker:
Osama Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, History and Classics Department, Providence College

Discussant
Gili Kliger, Ph.D. Student in History & Teaching Fellow in Social Studies, Harvard University ; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda...

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Read more about HIGHS Seminar: "The Temporal Life of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty"