#  Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) 

 



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Co-chairs: [David Armitage](https://scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home) and [Erez Manela](https://scholar.harvard.edu/manela)

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](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/) and generously supported by the [Weatherhead Center for International Affairs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/), has met several times each term on Wednesday afternoons since 2003.

The HIGHS schedule for 2025-26 is below. Past years are archived [here](/past-highs).

*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)

## Spring 2026

**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)