Past Events

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Panel: Histories and Futures of the Global Environment
May 7, 2026
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1:15PM - 5:15PM EDT
In Person
These panels bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to consider the past, present, and future of the "global environment." The first panel will focus on histories of the environment in the shadow of climate change to discuss how we can...

The Amazon: A Planetary Forest
April 30, 2026
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6:00PM - 8:15PM EDT
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Swissnex Boston
In Person
A film screening and panel discussion of the Amazon through the lenses of global history, indigenous knowledge, soil science, and more, organized and moderated by WIGH Fellow Tomás Bartoletti. The Amazon transcends easy categorization. Stretching across...

Global History Seminar: “Lively (linghuo) Accumulation: China’s 1980s coastal development strategy and histories of capitalist and socialist crises"
April 13, 2026
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Room 125
In Person
“Lively (linghuo) Accumulation: China’s 1980s coastal development strategy and histories of capitalist and socialist crises" Andrew Liu , Associate Professor of History, Villanova University Commentators: Ya-Wen Le i, Professor, Department of Sociology...

Global History Seminar: Siân Davies
February 9, 2026
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EST
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Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Room 125
In Person
"Between Plantation and Penrhyn Quarry: The Transition to Wage Labour, in Stone, in North Wales, in Jamaica" Siân Davies, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH. PhD in Economic and Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of...

RESCHEDULED Global History Seminar- Rachel Steely
February 2, 2026
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EST
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Robinson Hall
In Person
DUE TO WINTER WEATHER THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED FROM JANUARY 26TH TO FEBRUARY 2ND. “Fuel of Empires: Agronomy, Autarky, and Interwar Soybean Frontiers” Rachel Steely , PhD in History, Harvard University Commentators: Rachel Hsu Committee on Regional...

Global History Seminar: Tomás Bartoletti, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
November 17, 2025
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EST
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Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Room 125
In Person
“Insect Empires and Cotton Frontiers: Ecologies of Global Capitalism, 1900-1930s” Tomás Bartoletti, Postdoctoral Fellow. Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Principal Investigator, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Federal Institute...

Global History Seminar-Marc Dorpema, New York University
October 20, 2025
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Room 125
In Person
“From Santa Barbara to Sri Lanka to Stockholm: The Global Origins of Eurocapitalist Environmentalism” Marc Dorpema , Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program; PhD, Department of History, New York University Commentators: Jamie Martin, Assistant...

Global History Seminar: James Livesey, University of Galway
October 6, 2025
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Room 125
In Person
“Indigenous Roots for Rationality Conditions in Political Economy: Ireland, Senegal and the Origins of Critique in the Eighteenth Century" James Livesey, Professor of History, University of Galway Commentators: Sophie Wilkowske, PhD Candidate in History...