"Policing the Railways: Peanut Trade and Social Mobility Alongside the Corridor Dakar-Saint Louis, 1885-1907"

Mamoudou Sy, Université du Sine Saloum El Hadji Ibrahima Niass de Kaolack, Kaffrine, Senegal 

Comment:

Nicole Bianchi, PhD Candidate in History, University of Sao Paulo

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"Recruiting' Primitives': From Frontier Work to Global War, India 1911-1921" 
Radhika Singha, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Comment:
Babacar Fall, UCAD, Senegal
Alexander Geelen, PhD Researcher, IISH

The six members of the...

The final lecture explores the plantation as an ideal-type of colonial governance and capitalist ordering through the lens of a strange historic coincidence. In 1683 the City of Amsterdam acquired a 1/3 part...

Please note that this event has been cancelled.

In 1621, the Dutch East India Company (VOC)...

Speaker: Erika Boeckeler

Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.

Speaker: Pepijn Brandon

Part of the New Perspectives on Ethnicity and Migration lecture series
Speaker: Professor Erika Lee, University of Minnesota

"Insurance and the Transatlantic Slave Trade"
Michael Ralph, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis; Director of Africana Studies, New York University

Commentators:
Maya Singhal, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Sophie Wilkowske, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

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 2950A/...

Speaker:
Jennifer L. Allen
Assistant Professor, Yale University

Speaker:
David Spreen
Postdoctoral Fellow Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University of Berlin

The Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International and Global History (Con-IH) is organized by Harvard graduate students who are immersed in the field of international history. The conference selects 12 graduate students from around the world to participate in a two-day conference to present and discuss cutting-edge scholarship in various themes of international and global history. 

For the past two decades, Con-IH has been generously supported by various centers at Harvard including the Harvard History Department, the Weatherhead Center for International...

A discussion with Professor James Hankins on his new book: Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

Discussants:
-David Armitage,  Harvard Universtiy, History 
-...

Speaker: Ian P. Beacock
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, German Historical Institute