Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date: 

Monday, March 26, 2018, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library

 “The Americas and the First Global Capitalism: Power Integrating Diversity, 1500-1810”

Speaker:

John Tutino, Professor of History and International Affairs; Director, Americas Initiative, Georgetown University.

Commentator:

Christy Thornton, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Assistant Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

David Sadighian, PhD Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
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.

The precirculated paper will be available on the course website  (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu approximately one week ahead of time.

Weatherhead Initiative on Global History is a Research Cluster on Global Transformations.