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 III: "The Plantation: Violence and imaginary order in the gardens of Suriname and Amsterdam"
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
Two students from the Global History of Capitalism seminar will present their research projects from the year.
"Twentieth-Century Honeybees in the Tropics: The Rise of Commercial Apiculture in Mexico and Cuba" Angélica Márquez-Osuna, PhD Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University A look at how commercial beekeeping shaped the environment and economies of Mexico and Cuba.
“They are taking the land from us”: The Defeat of Radical Reconstruction in Rural Cuba, 1898-1912 Samantha Payne, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
This event has been cancelled due to unavailability of the speaker. We hope to reschedule with a new speaker.
"Was Japan's Industrialization Different? Labour Intensity and the Developmental State, 1868-1937" Peer Vries, Research Fellow, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands