THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING SEMESTER
“Carding and Flagging Racism: A Transatlantic Conversation with Lilian Thuram and Michael Bennett”
Michael Bennett is a defensive end for the New England Patriots. He is a is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist...
"Insurance and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" Michael Ralph, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis; Director of Africana Studies, New York University
Commentators: Maya Singhal, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Harvard University Sophie Wilkowske, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University...
"'Merchants of Peace'? A Global History of the International Chamber of Commerce" Thomas David Visiting Scholar, Fall 2019, WIGH; Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Food is available starting at 12:30. The talk will start promptly at 1pm.
"The Atlantic Slave-Sugar Complex in the Genoese Cycle of Accumulation: Origins of the Capitalist World-Economy" Dale Tomich, History and Sociology, Binghamton University
Faculty Commentator: Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. Graduate Student Commentator: Marcelo Ferraro, WIGH Global Fellow; Universidade de São Paulo,...
"The Political Economy of Punishment: Slavery and Institutional Violence in Brazil and in The United States" Marcelo Ferraro, PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo; Global Fellow at Harvard University, Spring 2015 and Fall 2019...
"Pathways to Modernity? The Rise of Technical Assistance Missions and the Early Days of the Digital Age in India, 1950s to 1970s"
Michael Homberg Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Cologne
"The 'New Scramble for Africa' from a European Perspective: A Crisis of Chain Governance Similar to the 1970s?"
Johannes Knierzinger Visiting Scholar, 2018-2019, WIGH; Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
The 2000s witnessed an unprecedented boom in raw material production, that allowed elites in capital poor and resource rich countries considerable policy leeway. Political leaders of these countries reviewed their mining contracts, formed alliances, threatened to...