"Latin American Party Systems: Institutionalization and Erosion"

Speaker:

Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor Brazil Studies; Faculty Co-chair, the Harvard Brazil Studies Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Isade Salcedo 
isalcedo@fas.harvard.edu ...

"Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt during the Housing Boom: Evidence and Implications"

Speaker:

Christopher Foote, Professor of the Practice, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Co-sponsored by the Economics Department, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cynthia Gomez 
Cgomez@fas.harvard.edu ...

"Writing  International  Legal  History  during  the  Long  Nineteenth  Century: Lawyers  as Global Historians 1750 -1900"
Speaker: Liliana Obregón, WIGH Visiting Fellow, Spring 2017; Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2016; Associate Professor in International Law, University of Los Andes Law School, Colombia

Commentator: ...

"Global History of Global Cities"
Sebastian Schmidt, Fellow, WIGH; PhD, History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT

Commentator: Eve Blau, Adjunct Professor of the History and Theory of Urban Form and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Graduate...

“Embracing Waterfronts: Dock Worker Solidarities in International Perspective”

Speaker:

Shubhankita Ojha, Global Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. PhD, Department of History, University of Delhi.

Commentator:

Sugata Bose,...

WORLD HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17

David Ludden, Professor of History
New York University

WORLD HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17

Johan Mathew, Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers University

WORLD HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES 2016-17

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University 
with the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History 

Felipe Pereda and many others

Purity and contamination have long figured in the accounts of the European Renaissance. Scholars, in the last few decades alone, have mapped the role these ideas have played in debates about godliness and sin, cleanliness, gender, and ethnicity, among other domains. Less thoroughly studied, though, is how these two intertwined categories informed European approaches to art and the built...

Understanding Human Variation: Then and Now
Maryellen Ruvolo, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology; Affiliate Member of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Associate Member of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Exposing Latent Images: Daguerreotypes in the Museum and Beyond
Ilisa Barbash, Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Walking Backward into the Future: 30 Years after Te Māori
Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall & John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art