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2021 Oct 26

Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

Please register below. Registration is open to the Harvard Community (Harvard Key Required).

Title: "Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance"

Speaker: Jamie Martin, Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University

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2021 Oct 27

Perspectives on the Academic Job Market: Prof. Arunabh Ghosh and Prof. Alison Frank Johnson

1:00pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

Limited to the Harvard Community

Description: The second installment in the History Department’s 2021-22 talk series on the post-PhD job market will take place on Wednesday, October 27, at 1:00 pm. Professors Arunabh Ghosh and Alison Frank Johnson will offer thoughts on the academic hiring process. The event will be a chance to hear from both a...
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2021 Nov 01

Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World

3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required)

“Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World”
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University

Faculty Commentator: TBA
Student Commentator: Alexander Geelen, Global Fellow, WIGH; PhD Candidate in History, the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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