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

Speaker: Fei Hsien Wang, Indiana University, Bloomington

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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...

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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...

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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...

Read more about HIGHS Seminar: Christopher Dietrich, "The Continuing Education of Ralph Bunche in the 1930s"

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...

Read more about HIGHS Seminar: Michele Louro, "The Red Scare Comes India: The Meerut Trial and its Aftermath, 1929-1934"

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...

Read more about HIGHS Seminar: Keisha N. Blain, "'East Unites with West': African American Women’s Visions of Japan in the Early Twentieth Century"