“The Nation and its Accomplice: Some Thoughts on the Agenda of Global History”
Amitava Chowdhury, WIGH Visiting Scholar; Assistant Professor of History, Queen's University, Canada Commentator: Jean Comaroff, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University Graduate Student Commentator: Joan Chaker, ...
Fifty years ago E. P. Thompson published The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential social history works ever. Its approach to the history of common people, its arguments and its methods came to influence several generations of historians and others all over the world. To trace Thompson’s influences, and with it the larger story of the varied approaches to social history that have come out of them, the Program on the History of Capitalism and the ...
An all-day conference devoted to commonalities and divergences in approaches to human rights. Topics include privacy and security (in the context of cyber communications) and discrimination and equality (focusing on race). Panelists are Harvard academics and European scholars and practitioners.
Dean Martha Minow will introduce the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, who will make a keynote address at 12 p.m. in Milstein East B. Lunch will be served. For more information, please go...
“The Industrial Revolution from a Global Perspective” Andrea Komlosy, Research Associate, Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K262 Lunch will be available- please RSVP to ...
During the past 250 years, agrarian labor regimes throughout much of the world have undergone radical changes, with an impact on billions of people. The transformation of the global countryside might indeed be one of the most significant historical processes of the modern era. This conference will explore the connected histories of propertied farming, sharecropping, wage labor, slavery, cultures obligatoires, and other such forms of labor, and how they have been connected to the spatial and social spread of capitalism.
The spread of the telegraph and the growth of global markets radically transformed networks of communications and commerce from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The two developments were intricately connected. Economic visions of world order rested on assumptions about communications that significantly affected patterns of global trade. Similarly, contesting visions of economic systems directly translated into competing ideas of global communication and universal peace. This conference brings together scholars of global communications and the economy to explore the interrelations...
Law is often at the heart of international historical inquiry—whether as a subject of study in its own right, a structure providing context for historical analysis, or a source base for amplifying otherwise-unheard voices. This year, ConIH aims to promote a dialogue among historians who use legal sources and ideas in their work. We hope to interrogate the role of law in international, global, and transnational history, and to think critically about law as a concept and a tool in historical analysis. ...
This conference brings together scholars working on a range of different national contexts to explore the historical relationship between land, economies, and power. Ranging across the modern period, contributions will consider the institutional configurations, political and cultural frameworks, and economic imperatives that shape the way land has been – and continues to be – assembled as a constitutive element of political and economic systems. We aim to give particular attention to empirical patterns of the emergence of...