Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar: Student Presentations

Date: 

Monday, April 21, 2014, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building,1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

"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.