"The World Market Origins of the New South: Tennessee, 1861-1900"

Speaker:

Sanjay K. Paul, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Commentator:

Jaewoong Jeong, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH.

"For Whom Are These Words For?: Blood, Citizenship, and Nazi Interpretations of the Indian Reorganization Act"

Speaker:

Kabl Wilkerson, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Commentator:

Nate George, Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of History, Rice University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Globalizing the History of Capitalism: A Roundtable"

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Speakers:

"Slavery’s Capitalism beyond the Nation-State: Trans-imperial business operations and the plantation complex"

Pepijn Brandon, Associate Professor of History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

"Global Southern Companies as Central to a Globalized History of Capitalism"

Kristen Alff, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, North Carolina State University.

"Haiti, Sovereign Debt Obligations, and the Globalization of Capitalism After Slavery"

Westenley Alcenat, Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“The Toxic Detritus of Industry Beyond Borders: The Hazardous Waste Trade Between West Germany, Turkey, and the Global South, 1986-1989”

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Speaker:

Matthew Sohm, Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Faculty Commentator:

Hans-Helmut Kotz, Visiting Professor of Economics, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Student Commentator:

Rustam Khan, PhD Candidate in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), MIT.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Book Talk: Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa"

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Speaker:

Holger Droessler, Assistant Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Commentators:

Kristin Oberiano, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University.

Marcel van der Linden, Senior Researcher, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“Frontier Moves: A Global History of Emerging Markets”

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Speaker:

Ravinder Kaur, WIGH Fellow 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Faculty Commentator:

Jeremy S. Friedman, Faculty Associate. Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Harvard Business School.

Student Commentator:

Andrew Stokols, PhD Candidate in Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“'Survival in an Age of Revolution': Charles Malik, Imperial Sovereignty, and Global Counterrevolution"

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Speaker:

Nate George, Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of History, Rice University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Rustam Khan, PhD Candidate in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.

Faculty Commentator:

Anne Sa'adah, Professor of Government Emerita, Dartmouth University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“Forged in Plain Sight: A Global History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion”

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Speaker:

Faith Hillis, Professor of Russian History, University of Chicago.

Faculty Commentator:

Derek Penslar, Faculty Associate. William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Student Commentator:

Natalie Behrends, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Light Water Capitalism: Empires of Nuclear Things"

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Speaker:

Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

Faculty Commentator:

Daniel Sargent, Associate Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Marino Auffant, Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“Modern Memories: The Public History of Industrial Heritage in Japan”

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Speaker:

Andrew Gordon, Faculty Associate. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Faculty Commentator:

Jaewoong Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago.

Student Commentator:

Yiyun Peng, PhD Candidate in History, Cornell University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“Sweet Returns: Sugar Capitalism in South Korea and Taiwan”

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Speaker:

Jaewoong Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago.

Faculty Commentator:

Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University.

Student Commentator:

Sanjay Paul, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Global Rubber and the Temporalities of Ecological Imperialism"

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Speaker:

Moritz von Brescius, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Lecturer, University of Bern.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Empire of Poverty: The Poverty Politics of the Spanish Empire"

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Speaker:

Julia McClure, Lecturer in Late Medieval/Early Modern Global History, University of Glasgow.

Faculty Commentator:

Lori De Lucia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (Fall 2021). Berenson Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Heinz Heinen Fellow, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University.

Student Commentator:

Malcolm Nelson, PhD Candidate in Ancient History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
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“Enchantment of Economic Miracles: A Global History of Emerging Markets”

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Speaker:

Ravinder Kaur, WIGH Fellow 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Faculty Commentator:

Sophus Reinert, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

Student Commentator:

Andrew Stokols, PhD Candidate in Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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

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Speaker:

Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University.

Student Commentator:

Alexander Geelen, Global Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (Fall 2021). PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social History and Free University of Amsterdam.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“The History of an Exceptional Black Saint in Sicily and Why it Matters”

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Speaker:

Lori De Lucia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (Fall 2021). Berenson Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Heinz Heinen Fellow, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University.

Faculty Commentator:

Maghan Keita, Professor of History and Global Interdisciplinary Studies; Founding Director, Africana Studies; Founding Director, Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University.

Student Commentator:

Joseph Leone, Master's in Public Policy Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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