Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date: 

Monday, May 4, 2015, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Level Library

Graduate Student Presentations

"A Global History of Bretton Woods: China, Mexico, and America’s Postwar Order”

Speaker:

Manuel Rincon-Cruz, PhD Candidate in Regional Studies, East Asia, Harvard University.

Commentator:

Marcelo Ferraro, WIGH Global Fellow. PhD Candidate in History, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

"African Identity as Philosophy: Studying Afrocentrism and Afropolitanism as Epistemologies Regarding Race, Governance, and Modernity in the 21st Century”

Speaker:

Sarah Balakrishnan, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Commentator:

Amitava Chowdhury, WIGH Fellow. Associate Professor of History, Queen's University, Canada.

“Into a Great Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era”

Speaker:

Ben Goossen, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Commentator:

Amit Mishra, WIGH Fellow. Lecturer in History, University of Hyderabad, India.