GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

"A Global History of Bretton Woods: China, Mexico, and America’s Postwar Order”
Speaker: Manuel Rincon - Cruz, PhD Candidate in Regional Studies, East Asia
Commentator: Marcelo Ferraro, WIGH Global Fellow; PhD Candidate in History, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

"African Identity as Philosophy: Studying Afrocentrism and Afropolitanism as Epistemologies Regarding Race, Governance, and Modernity in the 21st Century”
Speaker: Sarah Balakrishnan, PhD Candidate in History
Commentator: Amitava Chowdury, WIGH Fellow; Associate Professor of History, Queens University, Canada

“Into a Great Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era”
Speaker: Ben Goossen, PhD Candidate in History
Commentator: Amit Mishra, WIGH Fellow; Lecturer in History, University of Hyderabad, India

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950hf, Approaches to Global History, and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to the interested public during which students and faculty participants will present current research. 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 2014/15 at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Discussions will be moderated by Professors Sven Beckert and Charles S. Maier.

Papers will be precirculated and available on the course website (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu one week ahead of time.

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are in theLower Level Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, from 4:00-6:00pm.