Date:
Location:
"Cotton, Cloth, and the Cultures of Violence on the Upper Guinea Coast: Merchants, Migrants, Slaves and Speculators, 1785-1805"
Speaker:
Jody Benjamin, PhD Candidate in African and African American History, Harvard University.
Commentator:
Steven Serels, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow. PhD in History, McGill University, Canada.
"The Global Life of Camphor and the Japanese Empire of Scents, 1890-1940"
Speaker:
Feng-En Tu, PhD Candidate in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University.
Commentator:
Robert Julio Decker, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow. PhD Candidate in History and Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
The precirculated seminar papers are available at http://bit.ly/wighseminar (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.