Part of the 2015–2016 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Kris Manjapra RI '16

While at the Institute, Manjapra is working on his next book project: a global study of the plantation complex from its modern inception in the Americas in the 17th century to its apotheosis in the Indian Ocean during the 19th and 20th centuries. The work is an intellectual history of how a new way of incorporating land, labor, law, and capital in the Global...

Harvard University students and staff host an annual pow wow. This year's event takes place at Radcliffe Yard.

The event is free and open to the public.

For updates and additional information, see Harvard University Native American Program website.

*Please note, our initial events email had the incorrect date. The date for this event is April 30th, not March 30th.

Katherine Marino, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Comment: Kirsten Weld, Harvard University

In June 1945, at the conference in San Francisco that created the United Nations, a group of Latin American feminists pushed “women’s rights” into the category of international human rights in the founding documents of the UN and proposed what became the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The Brazilian delegate and feminist Bertha Lutz called their work a “Latin American contribution to the constitution of the world.” This paper examines what...

Graduate Student Presentations and Wrap-up Discussion

See the WIGH website for updates about this event.

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950hf, Approaches to Global History, and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate...

Hear expert academic job search advice from Dr. Karen Kelsky, the author of The Professor Is In. Dr. Karen will discuss the essential advice every tenure-track job seeker needs to know. Book signing to follow presentation.

Register at tinyurl.com/kelsky

Co-sponsored by African and African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, English, Graduate Student Council, Graduate Commons Program, Henry Adams Society, History, and the...

John Robertson, Professor of the History of Political Thought at Cambridge

John Robertson, Professor of the History of Political Thought at Cambridge

John Robertson, Professor of the History of Political Thought at Cambridge

Russell Berman,
Stanford University

Jodi Magness
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism
UNC - Chapel Hill

For more information, see the NELC website. 

Ann Killebrew
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology
The Pennsylvania State University

For more information, see the NELC website. 

David Schloen, 
Associate Professor of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
The University of Chicago

For more information, see the NELC website. 

University communities generate huge numbers of ideas with commercial potential, and that potential is becoming increasingly realized. You might be familiar with high profile start-ups with university roots (e.g., Genzyme, Akamai, Google, Facebook) and the associated ‘creation stories’ (e.g., “Genius researcher spins-out breakthrough scientific discovery”, “Computer Science whiz drops out and moves to Silicon Valley”). The reality is more varied, with new companies emerging from all disciplines, including the social sciences. These companies commercialize academic research, internally...