Special Event

Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Nellie Hirschhausen & Michal Smetana Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts The wars in Ukraine and Palestine have reignited debates about "frozen conflicts" in world politics. In both cases, as different as...

A unique discussion on how a scholar and a novelist treat the same subject, in this case an extraordinary imperial expedition to India and Central Asia in the mid-1850s. Christopher Kloeble took WIGH Fellow Moritz von Brescius's book German Science in the...

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CMES, WIGH and the Department of Sociology invite you to join us for a Watch Party: Tunisia vs. France World Cup Match Join CMES, WIGH and Sociology to watch the Tunisia vs. France match in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. We will be streaming the match on...

Globalizing the History of Capitalism: A Roundtable "Slavery’s Capitalism beyond the Nation-State: Trans-imperial business operations and the plantation complex" Pepijn Brandon, Associate Professor of History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam How can we write...

The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders: The world as a garden: War, land and dispossession in 17th-century Dutch expansion Part III: "The Plantation: Violence and imaginary order in the gardens of...

The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders: The world as a garden: War, land and dispossession in 17th-century Dutch expansion Part II: "A Burgherly Life on the Banda Islands: Land, labor and ecology in the...

THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING SEMESTER “Carding and Flagging Racism: A Transatlantic Conversation with Lilian Thuram and Michael Bennett” Michael Bennett is a defensive end for the New England Patriots. He is a is a Super Bowl Champion, a...

Unfortunately this event is postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. We hope to reschedule for the Fall. "Capital and Ideology " Thomas Piketty , Professor of Economics, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris School of Economics...