History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders: The world as a garden: War, land and dispossession in 17th-century Dutch expansion
Part II: "A Burgherly Life on the Banda Islands: Land, labor and ecology in the 1621 genocide"
Pepijn Brandon WIGH Fellow 2017-2018; Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam; Senior Researcher, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands; 2020 Erasmus Lecturer, Department of History
"Black Slavery and World Accumulation: Towards a Global History of Value" Tâmis Parron, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Graduate Student Commentators: Felipe Alfonso, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University...
"Sacred Thirst: Producing Tea, Producing People in Colonial Bengal" Tithi Bhattacharya, Professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies, Purdue University
"The Age of Oil and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma" Mandy M. Izadi, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH; Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History, University of Oxford
"The Political Economy of Punishment under the Second Slavery" Marcelo Ferraro WIGH Global Fellow, Spring 2015 and Fall 2019; PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo
Paper available by request.
Marcelo's research focuses on criminal law, capital crimes and capital punishment in the nineteenth-century Brazil and in the United States—more specifically in the Mississippi Valley and in Vale do...
"The Future of the History of Capitalism" Antara Haldar, University Lecturer in Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University
This event will be rescheduled for the spring semester.
"The Worker in the Mirror of Law: Towards a Global History of Informality" Prabhu Mohapatra, Associate Professor of History, University of Delhi, India
"Engines of Globalization: Mapping the Expansion of Anglo-American Mining Engineers into the World, 1874-1929” Israel Solares, Visiting Fellow, Fall 2019, WIGH; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego (starting January 2020) Ted Beatty, Professor of History, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame...