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Patrick Chung, “From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: The U.S. Military, Infrastructural Development, and the Origins of South Korea’s Export Boom.”

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Talk Title: "From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: The U.S. Military, Infrastructural Development, and the Origins of South Korea’s Export Boom" Speaker: Patrick Chung, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland This paper examines the U.S...

Mahindra Humanities Center: "Strange Fruit: Bananas, Slavery, Military Coups, Sex and Race" Françoise Verges

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Strange Fruit: Bananas, Slavery, Military Coups, Sex and Race Françoise VERGES; Goldsmiths College, University of London; President of the Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’esclavage

CAS: African Studies Workshop - Foreign military aid in building postcolonial states in francophone West Africa 1958-1974.

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Riina Turtio has recently completed a PhD in International History at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her PhD dissertation approached the wider topic of decolonization and state-building in francophone West Africa by analyzing Guinean, Ivoirian and...

"The Origins of Religious (Un)settlement: Missionary Encounters, Military Engagements, and Hmong Refugee Migration in Asia"

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Title: "The Origins of Religious (Un)settlement: Missionary Encounters, Military Engagements, and Hmong Refugee Migration in Asia" Speaker: Melissa Borja, University of Michigan For the workshop paper, and the password to access the paper, please contact...

Asia Center / SAI: Book Talk: India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971

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A book talk on India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971 Dr. Arjun Subramaniam, Asia Center Fellow; Faculty Member, National Defence College, New Delhi; Air Vice Marshal, Indian Air Force Chair/Discussant: Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of...

DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program: Military dictatorship and political repression in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s

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For more information, see the DRCLAS Website. Speaker: Mariana Joffily, Professor, Department of History, State University of Santa Catarina Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor, Department of History, Harvard University The 1964 military coup in Brazil...

BU: Military Rule and Urban Resilience: The Case of Kampala, Uganda, ca. 1966-86

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Walter Rodney Seminar Ben Twagira (BU/HI) Boston University’s weekly Walter Rodney seminars are held Mondays in the B.U. African Studies Center. This week’s seminar features Ben Twagira, post-doctoral fellow at Emory University, presenting “Military Rule...

Covell Meyskens – Mao’s Massive Military Industrial Campaign to Defend Cold War China

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Speaker: Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Naval Postgraduate School In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive...

CMES: "Before the Arab Spring: Democratic Transition in Mauritania"

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Details on the Center for Middle Eastern Studies website. Ely Ould Mouhamad Vall Former president of Mauritania Mauritania became independent from French colonial rule in 1960. In the past five decades or so of nation building, Mauritania faced a variety...

Harvard Graduate Conference on International History - Militarization: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions

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THURSDAY, MARCH 28 1:15–3:45 pm Military, Civilians, and the State 4:00–5:30 pm Keynote Speaker: Keith Camacho “On Native Testimony: Military Tribunals, War Crimes, and Imperial Judgment in Guam” FRIDAY, MARCH 29 9:30 am–12:00 pm Science, Technology, and...

History Department Special Event: Derek Penslar, U. of Toronto

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Derek Penslar, Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto "Jews, Military Service, and the State".

Casey Wade Two Bears

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Casey Two Bears is an active-duty Navy Commander and an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. His scholarly interests include examining the relationship between...