WIGH Seminar: Timothy Mitchell, "Durability: A History of the Future, 1869-1912"

"Durability: A History of the Future, 1869-1912"
Speaker: Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Commentator: E. Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus , Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Aden Knapp, PhD Candidate and Frank Knox Fellow, History Department, Harvard University

This talk will focus on Egypt 1869-1912 and construction of durable infrastructure projects such as the first Aswan Dam (1899-1902).

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 Sugata Bose 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 the Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, from 4:00-6:00pm.