Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS)

Co-chairs: David Armitage and Erez Manela

Seminar coordinator: Hagar Gal

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 2023-24 is below. Past years are archived here.

Unless otherwise noted, sessions are held on Wednesdays 3:45-5:45 pm. Events will be held in hybrid format, with an option for both in-person and remote participation.

Fall 2023

October 4
Stephanie DeGooyer (UNC Chapel Hill): "The Last Asylum: The American Revolution and the Right to Emigration"
Comment: Angela Yan (Harvard)

October 25
Jane Hong (Occidental): "Diasporic Conservatisms and the Rise of International Evangelical Anti-Gay Movements: Chinese Christians in California’s Same-Sex Marriage Debates"
Comment: Jiajia Zhang (Harvard)

November 8
Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge): “Reasoning About Borders (Statistics, Law, Philosophy), 1880s-Present”
Comment: Matteo Gioradno (Harvard & Scuola Normale Superiore)

November 28 (Tuesday)
Alessandro Iandolo (University College London): "Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968" (book talk)
Comment: Yevhenii Monastyrskyi (Harvard)

Spring 2024

February 7 
Paul Kreitman (Columbia): “Guarding the Exits: Toward a History of Emigration Control in Japan, 1587-1981”
Comment: Izidor Janžekovič (Harvard & Central European University)

March 6
Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia): "International Health Communications in the History and Policy of Pandemics"
Comment: Yevhenii Monastyrskyi (Harvard)

April 3
Jamie Martin (Harvard): “’Trade is now practically dead:’ The Outbreak of the First World War and the Paralysis of the World Economy”
Comment: Kendall Carll (Harvard)