Speaker:
Lauren Stokes 
Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Northwestern University

Lauren Stokes (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2016) is a historian of modern Germany, with a particular focus on migration and race in German history. She is currently at work on a book manuscript about “family reunification” for foreign workers in West Germany, one that explores the ways that regulation of the intimate sphere was linked to broader processes of labor migration, national identity formation, and European integration. She currently conducts research in...

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Speaker: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University

Moderator: Ian J. Miller, Professor of History, Harvard University

On Friday, November 1^st, German and U.S. team members from the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) will present some of our most remarkable discoveries from archaeoscience and ancient genetics in: “From Homer to History with the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center. Recent results from Bronze Age Investigations...

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On Tuesday, October 15^th, Dr. Alissa Mittnik, Department of Genetics (Reich Lab) at Harvard Medical School, will speak on her remarkable research: “Marriage, mobility and households in Bronze Age Germany: integrating ancient DNA, isotopes and archaeology. ” Showing the power of traditional archaeological and newer archaeoscientific methods to illuminate life in Bronze Age Germany, the talk takes place at 5:30 pm at CGIS South: S020 Belfer Case Study Room (1730 Cambridge Street, poster attached). Professor Matthew Liebmann (...

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Speaker: Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)

Talk Title: “Trade and Lawsuits across the Atlantic: litigation involving Sephardic and converso traders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil”

Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

Speaker: Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows)

Talk Title: "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin”  

Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

Speaker: Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University)

Talk Title: “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"

Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

Speaker: Abram Kaplan (Harvard Society of Fellows) with commentary by Calliope Dourou (Dept of the Classics, Harvard)
Talk title: “Erudition and algebraic practice at the end of the sixteenth century” 

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group.

"Capitalism and German Imperialism before World War I: A Reassessment"
Steven Press, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

Graduate Student Commentator: Natalie Behrends, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: Charles Maier, University Research Professor, Harvard University

Please note that...

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"The Future of the History of Capitalism"
Antara Haldar, University Lecturer in Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University

Graduate Student Commentator: Yedong Chen, PhD Candidate in East Asian Arts/Film/Cultural Studies, Harvard University

Commentator: Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy,...

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"A Trove of Ocean Riches: Marine Products and the Political Economy of Empire"
Pedro Machado, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University

Graduate Student Commentator: Kenneth Alyass, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

Faculty Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor...

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Dale Tomich, History and Sociology, Binghamton University

Faculty Commentator: Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.
Graduate Student Commentator: Marcelo Ferraro, WIGH Global Fellow; Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

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/B, History of Global Capitalism, and includes both reading sessions designed...

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INDIA'S BORDERS: MYTHOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND COLONIAL

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
K262, Bowie-Vernon Room, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Speaker: Mani Shankar Aiyar, Writer and Former Cabinet Minister, India
Chaired by: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University

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

 

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