Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date: 

Monday, November 26, 2018, 3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library

"Slavery, Nation, and Prison Building in Postcolonial Brazil"

Speaker:

Martine Jean, Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH).

Commentator:

Sidney Chalhoub, Faculty Associate. Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

The paper is available a week ahead of time by request to jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu.

Chairs:

Sven Beckert, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Sugata Bose, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.

Jean Comaroff, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.

Charles S. Maier, Senior Adviser; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University. WIGH is a Research Cluster on Global Transformations.