Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date: 

Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library

"The 'New Scramble for Africa' from a European Perspective: A Crisis of Chain Governance Similar to the 1970s?"

Speaker:

Johannes Knierzinger, Visiting Scholar, 2018–2019, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France.

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. WIGH is a Research Cluster on Global Transformations.