Date:
Location:
"Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam"
Speaker:
Tithi Bhattacharaya, Professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies, Purdue University.
Graduate Student Commentator:
Swarnabh Ghosh, PhD Candidate in Architecture and Urban Planning, Harvard Design School.
Faculty Commentator:
Norberto Ferraras, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Professor of American History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.
Contact:
Jessica Barnard
wigh@wcfia.harvard.edu
Chairs:
Sven Beckert, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
Sophus Reinert, Marvin Bower Associate Professor of BusinessAdministration, Harvard Business School.
The precirculated seminar paper is available by request to wigh@wcfia.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.