# WIGH Seminar: Justin Jackson, "The Everyday Politics of Imperial Sovereignty: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines" #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 30, 2017** 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library** "The Everyday Politics of Imperial Sovereignty: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines" [Justin Jackson](/people/justin-f-jackson), Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Assistant Professor of History, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Commentators: **Shubhankita Ojha**, WIGH Fellow; University of Delhi, India **Roberto Saba**, 2017-2018 Hench Postdoctoral Fellow, American Antiquarian Society 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 2950A, 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 2015/16 at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Discussions will be moderated by Professors Sven Beckert, Charles S. Maier, and Sugata Bose. Papers will be precirculated and available on the[ course website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/30350) (Harvard ID required) or by request to one week ahead of time. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are in the Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, from 4:00-6:00pm. See also:- [ Seminars ](/filter_by/seminars) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/1145496/event-feed.ics) Copy link link