Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has met several times each term on Wednesday afternoons since 2003.

The HIGHS schedule for 2025-26 is below. Past years are archived here.

Unless otherwise noted, sessions are held on Wednesdays 3:45-5:45 pm at the History Department Conference Room (Robinson 125)

Fall 2025

Sept 24

Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva & NYU), “Moralizing Capitalism: International Christian Commitments to Corporate Social Responsibility”

Comment: Yi Ning Chang (Harvard)

Oct 29

Miranda Spieler (American University of Paris), "Rethinking France's Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History"

Comment: Jin-Woo Choi (Harvard)

Nov 19

Georgios Giannakopoulos (City St George's, University of London), “International Interventions in Greece in the shadow of the Crimean War”

Comment: Oliver Yule-Smith (HKS)

February 4,

Adam Mestyan (Harvard), "Real Estate in the Middle East? - Capitalist Territoriality and Imperial Statecraft in French Syria, 1918–1923”

Comment: Charles Maier (Harvard)

February 18

Stuart Ward (Copenhagen/Adelaide), "Man of the World: The Cosmology of a Victorian Globetrotter"

Comment: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard)

April 8

Ellen Nye (Purdue), "The Ottoman Empire and the English Financial Revolution: Making Money Global in the Late Seventeenth Century"

Comment: Ida Beckett (Harvard)

April 22

Brian Delay (Berkeley), “Shoot the State: National Borders and the Arming of Indigenous Sovereignty in the Americas”

Comment: Kate Birkbeck (Harvard)