History Department Conference Room (125), Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street
"The Project State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Student Commentator: Christopher Malley, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Faculty Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, Harvard University
"The World Market Origins of the New South: Tennessee, 1861-1900" Sanjay K. Paul, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Commentator: Jaewoong Jeong, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH
"For Whom Are These Words For?: Blood, Citizenship, and Nazi Interpretations of the Indian Reorganization Act" Kabl Wilkerson, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Commentator:...
In his new book, The New Atlantic Order(2022), Patrick O. Cohrs offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the global order in the period between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the first attempt to establish a transatlantic peace. Cohrs argues that this effort proved formative for more advanced conceptions of interdependent peace, collective...
“The Toxic Detritus of Industry Beyond Borders: The Hazardous Waste Trade Between West Germany, Turkey, and the Global South, 1986-1989” Matthew Sohm, Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University