“Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World”
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Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Jim Downs, the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College and former WIGH Fellow, for a discussion of his latest book, Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. He will...

"Anti-Colonial Imaginations of the International"
Discussants:
Sarah Dunstan, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London
Ngozi Edeagu, PhD Candidate in African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Vasuki Neseah, Professor of Practice, NYU Gallatin School of Law

A discussion of anticolonial imaginations and the shifting boundaries of the world order.

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History of Global Capitalism Student Presentations

"A British Slaveowner in Suriname: Trans-imperial Plantation Politics and the Creation of the Second Slavery"
Marten Dondorp, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Commentator: Valerie Werder, PhD Candidate in Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University

"Quantifying Rural Surplus Labor in China: Economic Thought in the Reform Era"
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