Red Meat Republic A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

Speaker: Joshua Specht, Monash University

Speakers: 
Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT
Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT

Live stream the seminar here: https://www.youtube.com/user/povertyactionlab/live

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China

Speaker: Fei Hsien Wang, Indiana University, Bloomington

Constructing the Index of Arabs - Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia\
Speaker:  Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore

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Join the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard for the launch of the CES 50th Anniversary Series and a discussion to mark the retirement of CES Resident Faculty Charles S. Maier and Patrice Higonnet. Following the lecture, attendees are invited to a reception in the CES Atrium from 6:00-7:00pm.

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This talk presents Cécile Vidal's new book entitled Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society. The author argues that it is more accurate to view eighteenth-century New Orleans as a Caribbean port city rather than as a North American one, as its late founding, its position within the French Empire and its connections with...

Please note: All papers for this workshop are precirculated. For access to a given participant's work, please contact them directly or email historiesofmodernmigration@gmail.com.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
LOCATION | WILLIAM JAMES HALL 1550
9:00–10:00AM
The Martyr in Argentine Siberia: Anarchism, Immigration,
and the...

Speaker: Christopher Dietrich (Fordham University)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and...

Speaker: Michele Louro (Salem State University)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead Center for International...

Speaker: Keisha N. Blain (University of Pittsburgh/Radcliffe Institute)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead...

Speaker: Megan Black (London School of Economics)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously...

Speaker: Adom Getachew (University of Chicago/Safra Center for Ethics)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and...

Speaker: Julia Irwin (University of South Florida)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead Center...