“Slavery’s Stale Soil: Indentured Servants, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire”
Cindy Hahamovitch (Professor of History, College of William and Mary)
Commentator: Emmanuel Akyeampong (Professor of History, Harvard University)
Graduate Student Commentator: Manuel Rincon-Cruz, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Lewis 214A, Harvard Law School (Please see the map of the Harvard Law School Campus)
The precirculated paper will be available at http://bit.ly/wighseminar or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.
This is a joint session with the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism Workshop.
About the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar:
Global history—the search to understand how human societies have developed as an interactive community across the world—has come into its own as a scholarly enterprise at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Spurred by ongoing processes of globalization, drawing on students and researchers better trained in languages and social science methods than ever before, it flourishes as one of the most important developments in the discipline of history today. Examining processes, networks, identities and events that cross the boundaries of modern nation states, this venture to push the study of the past, remote and recent, beyond the compartmentalized approach most older historians grew up with has mobilized scholars in faculties and research centers across the world.
This graduate-faculty research seminar is structured to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis. 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 2013/14 at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. All are welcome to attend, and it is not necessary to RSVP. Please contact jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu with any questions. Unless otherwise specified, all meetings are on Mondays from 4-6pm in CGIS Knafel, Room K050, 1737 Cambridge Street