GLOBAL HISTORY SEMINAR: “FOOD INSECURITY AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN RED SEA WORLD”

“Food Insecurity and the Making of the Modern Red Sea World” 
Steven Serels, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow; PhD, McGill University, Canada
Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Feng-en Tu, PhD Candidate, History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University
CGIS Knafel, Room K050, 1737 Cambridge Street
The precirculated paper is available at http://bit.ly/wighseminar (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.


About the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar: 
 
Global history—the search to understand how human societies have developed as an interactive community across the world—has come into its own as a scholarly enterprise at the beginning of the twenty-first century.  Spurred by ongoing processes of globalization, drawing on students and researchers better trained in languages and social science methods than ever before, it flourishes as one of the most important developments in the discipline of history today. Examining processes, networks, identities and events that cross the boundaries of modern nation states, this venture to push the study of the past, remote and recent, beyond the compartmentalized approach most older historians grew up with has mobilized scholars in faculties and research centers across the world.

This graduate-faculty research seminar is structured to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis. Faculty participants will be drawn from a number of schools, and, most especially, from the group of fellows in global history who are spending the academic year 2013/14 at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. All are welcome to attend, and it is not necessary to RSVP. Please contact jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu with any questions. Unless otherwise specified, all meetings are on Mondays from 4-6pm in CGIS Knafel, Room K050, 1737 Cambridge Street.