Book Talk

Book Talk: "White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity" Lilian Thuram, French author and former professional footballer What does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why...

In his new book, The New Atlantic Order (2022), Patrick O. Cohrs offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the global order in the period between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. Cohrs reinterprets the...

A recording of this event is available on the WCFIA Vimeo page. Book Talk: Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa Holger Droessler, Assistant Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Commentators: Kristin Oberiano...

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Jim Downs, the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College and former WIGH Fellow, for a discussion of his latest book...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. Book Launch Discussion: Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India Ravinder Kaur, WIGH Fellow 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern...

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India Ravinder Kaur, Visiting Scholar (Remote), 2020-2021; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies; University of Copenhagen Preregistration is required. From...

Co-Sponsored HIGHS/WIGH Seminar Book Talk: Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control Steffen Rimner, Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations, Utrecht University, the Netherlands The League of Nations Advisory...

Author Quinn Slobodian (ACLS Burkhardt/WIGH Fellow; Wellesley College) will meet with a panel of critics to discuss his new book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018) Panelists: Katrina Forrester...

American Empire: A Global History A. G. Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge American Empire (Princeton University Press) is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the...

Harvard Book Store welcomes QUINN SLOBODIAN, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College and ACLS Burkhardt Residential Fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, for a discussion of his latest book, Globalists: The...