4th International Workshop, 6-7 December 2017

Abstract Submission: 1 July 2017

Zayed University, Dubai

This two-day multi-disciplinary workshop is designed to explore the dynamics of frontier processes and how they relate to social, economic, political and ecological change in their zones of contact. More information available...

The conference "Universities and Slavery: Bound by History" took place at Harvard University on March 3, 2017. The faculty conference organizers included WIGH co-chair Sven Beckert, as well as Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and Daniel Carpenter, director of the social sciences program at the Radcliffe Institute and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government.

The conference goals were to explore the relationship between slavery and universities, across the country and around the world. The schedule, as well as...

WIGH co-chair Charles S. Maier's book Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 was published this month by Harvard University Press. The book tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience.