#  Past Seminars 

 



## **2024-25:**

**September 18**  
Durba Ghosh (Cornell): "'Bad Statues': the problem of London's twentieth-century statuary”  
Comment: Clare Anderson (Harvard)

**October 16**  
Brad Gregory (Notre Dame): "An Unorthodox History: the Anthropocene and Western Christianity"  
Comment: Reed Morgan (Harvard)

**November 13**  
Lydia Walker (Ohio State): “The Border Walkers: Kashmir and the Transformation of International Intervention, 1949-1954”  
Comment: Mahia Bashir (Harvard)

**February 5**  
Tamara Fernando (Stony Brook): "Beyond Commodity History? Pearling Knowledge, Labor and Environments, 1880-1925"  
Comment: Gene Kim (Harvard)

**February 19**  
Laura Robson (Yale): "What is UNRWA for? The origins and uses of international refugee aid"  
Comment: Yael Sternhell (Harvard & Tel Aviv University)

**March 5**  
Jilene Chua (Boston University): "The Opium and the Egg: A US Colonial Legal History of the Chinese in the Philippines"  
Comment: Hagar Gal (Harvard)

**April 2**  
Vivien Chang (Dartmouth): “'The Great Marketplace': African Development in a Neoliberal World”  
Comment: Bulelani Jili (Harvard), Quinn Slobodian (Boston University)

## **2023-24:**

**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](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501764431/arrested-development/)" (book talk)  
Comment: Yevhenii Monastyrskyi (Harvard)

**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)


## **2022-2023:**

**September 21**  
Elisabeth Leake (Tufts): “Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan”  
Comment: Leora Eisenberg (Harvard), Serhii Plokhy (Harvard)

**October 19**  
David Ekbladh (Tufts): “Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations”  
Comment: Natalie Behrends (Harvard), Erez Manela (Harvard)

**November 30**  
Giuliana Chamedes (Wisconsin): “Failed Globalists: European Socialists, the Welfare State, and the Challenge of the Global South, 1919-2019”  
Comment: James Evans (Harvard), David Spreen (Harvard)

**February 8**   
Marc Flandreau (Penn): “Rise of the Vultures: Jobbing Nations in the Victorian Stock Exchange”  
Comment: Ellen Nye (Harvard), Charlotte Robertson (HBS)

**March 8**  
Christy Thornton (Johns Hopkins): "To Reckon with the Riot: Social Protest and Global Economic Governance"  
Comment: Joan Chaker (Harvard), Jamie Martin (Harvard)

**March 22**  
Diana Kim (Georgetown University): "Untouchability as Global"  
Comment: Hagar Gal (Harvard), Heather Streets-Salter (Northeastern)

**April 5**  
Priya Lal (Boston College): "Professional Labor and African Development from Postcolonial Ambition to Neoliberal Adjustment"  
Comment: Paul Clarke (Harvard), Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley)

**April 26**  
Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida): "'For Spain and for the World': The Spanish Civil War, the Colonial Question and the Politics of Comparison"   
Comment: Mahia Bashir (Harvard), Elisabeth Leake (Tufts)

**May 3**  
Zach Fredman (Duke Kunshan University): "The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949"  
Comment: Jesus Solis (Harvard)


## **2021-2022:**

**September 15**  
[Patricia Owens](https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/patricia-owens.html) (Oxford): “Women’s International Thought: Introduction to a New Canon”  
Comment: Tania Shew (Manchester)

**October 13**  
[Gregory Afinogenov](https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000019GYOdAAO/gregory-afinogenov) (Georgetown): “Saviors of Europe: The Russian Intervention in Italy and the Ideology of Counterrevolution, 1799”  
Comment: Marcel Garbos (Harvard)

**November 17**  
[Natasha Wheatley](https://history.princeton.edu/people/natasha-wheatley) (Princeton): “The Temporal Life of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty”  
Comment: Raphael Stern (Harvard)

**December 1**  
[Sujit Sivasundaram](https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-sujit-sivasundaram) (Cambridge): “A City on the Western Indian Ocean: Muslim Colombo as Idea and Artefact”  
Comment: Yi Ning Chang (Harvard)

**February 16 (3:00 - 4:30 pm)**  
[Bradley Simpson](https://history.uconn.edu/faculty-by-name/bradley-simpson/) (University of Connecticut): “The Boundaries of the System: Small Territories, ‘Primitive’ Peoples, and the Limits of Self-determination after 1945”  
Comment: Kristin Oberiano (Wesleyan)

**March 2**  
Beatrice Wayne (ACLS): "When a Crocodile Eats the Peace Corps Volunteer: Memory, Violence and Development in 1960s Ethiopia"  
Comment: Amanda McVety (Miami University)

**March 30**  
Mark John Sanchez (Vanderbilt University): “The Religious Case for Revolution: Global Ecumenism and the Anti-Marcos Movement, 1965-1986”  
Comment: Carleigh Beriont (Harvard)

**April 13**  
Daniel Chardell (Harvard University): "The Gulf War: Sovereignty, Statehood, and Illusive Visions of Post-Cold War Middle East Order”  
Comment: Salim Yaqub (UC Santa Barbara)


## **2020-2021:**

**September 30**  
[Cindy Ewing](https://history.missouri.edu/people/ewing) (University of Missouri): “The Third World before Afro-Asia”  
Comment: Ruodi Duan (Harvard)

**October 21**  
The United Nations and International Order: 75 Years On

[Jane Hong](https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/jane-hong), Occidental College   
[Jamie Martin](https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000018dtJXAAY/jamie-martin), Georgetown University  
[Mira Siegelberg](https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-mira-siegelberg), University of Cambridge  
[Lydia Walker](https://www.lydiawalker.info/), University of London

**November 11**  
[Alvita Akiboh](https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/alvita-akiboh.html) (University of Michigan): “Symbolic Decolonization: Material Culture and Performing the End of U.S. Empire”  
Comment: Kristin Oberiano (Harvard)

**December 2**  
[Perin Gurel](https://americanstudies.nd.edu/faculty/perin-gurel/) (University of Notre Dame): “The Politics of Beauty: Modernization Theory, Comparativism, and the Last Empress of Iran”  
Comment: Catherine Boyle (Harvard)

**February 17**  
[Adam Clulow](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/ac73447) (Univerity of Texas, Austin) and [Lauren Benton](https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton) (Yale): “Suspended Sovereignty in Small Places”  
Comment: Aden Knaap (Harvard)

**March 24**  
[Priya Satia](https://history.stanford.edu/people/priya-satia) (Stanford): "George Orwell and Empire"  
Comment: Gili Kliger (Harvard)

**April 7**  
[Quito Swan](https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/quito_swan) (University of Massachusetts, Boston): "Rude Boy International: Sound Systems, Dancehall and Diasporas"  
Comment: Holger Droessler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

**April 28**  
[Marino Auffant](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/marino-auffant) (Harvard): "Globalizing Oil, Unleashing Capital: An International History of the 1970s Energy Crisis"  
Comment: Arbella Bet-Shlimon (University of Washington)

## **Summer 2020 HIGHS Special Zoom Event**

**Wednesday, June 17, 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET**


## **PANEL CONVERSATION ON**

## **"Covid-19, the WHO, and International Society"**

### CHAIR

[Erez Manela](https://scholar.harvard.edu/manela) (History, Harvard University)

### PANELISTS

- [Heidi Tworek](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.ubc.ca_profile_heidi-2Dtworek_&d=DwMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=BZgFMbI2agV4Gk-9rNaMKmFnFboeTi-nBCStNi7xxMA&m=I4pw7_PGepsD6bT21Ds5Sy0JIoyAtUofuJ9IWtRYSzY&s=SXCzyPVWIEna54A92L64D0_MxneLdq0r7NMP8dXOLLw&e=) (History, University of British Columbia)
- [Nitsan Chorev](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__watson.brown.edu_people_faculty_chorev&d=DwMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=BZgFMbI2agV4Gk-9rNaMKmFnFboeTi-nBCStNi7xxMA&m=I4pw7_PGepsD6bT21Ds5Sy0JIoyAtUofuJ9IWtRYSzY&s=AxhAbEwD6rLNK1BKj1a72sDIlvPF12luOg2A7DelT08&e=) (Sociology, Brown University)
- [Sanjoy Bhattacharya](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.york.ac.uk_history_staff_profiles_bhattacharya_&d=DwMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=BZgFMbI2agV4Gk-9rNaMKmFnFboeTi-nBCStNi7xxMA&m=I4pw7_PGepsD6bT21Ds5Sy0JIoyAtUofuJ9IWtRYSzY&s=o6pjacq5U_L8opDs69pcn70mCHUw527ExC5QWMEaoag&e=) (History of Medicine, University of York)
- [Thomas Zimmer](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__herbert.geschichte.uni-2Dfreiburg.de_mitarbeiter_zimmer-5Fthomas&d=DwMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=BZgFMbI2agV4Gk-9rNaMKmFnFboeTi-nBCStNi7xxMA&m=I4pw7_PGepsD6bT21Ds5Sy0JIoyAtUofuJ9IWtRYSzY&s=ZdqwhnmzcdXq8GDpsVghnmG0uSagLk_3DeTlIiK3Atw&e=) (History, University of Freiburg)

See the video recording of the panel [here](https://vimeo.com/430502976)


## **2019-2020:**

**September 25**  
[Julia Irwin](http://history.usf.edu/faculty/jirwin/) (University of South Florida): “Catastrophic Diplomacy: A History of U.S. Response to Natural Disaster”

**October 16**  
[Adom Getachew](https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/adom-getachew) (University of Chicago/Safra Center for Ethics): "The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective”

**November 6**  
[Megan Black](http://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/People/academicStaff/black/black) (London School of Economics): “Undermining Rights: Transnational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Activism across Settler States”

**December 4**  
[Elizabeth Ingleson](https://www.elizabethingleson.com/) (Southern Methodist University): “Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980"

**February 12**  
[Keisha N. Blain](http://keishablain.com/) (University of Pittsburgh/Hutchins Center): "'East Unites with West': African American Women’s Visions of Japan in the Early Twentieth Century"

**March 11**  
[Michele Louro](https://michelelouro.com/) (Salem State University): "The Red Scare Comes India: The Meerut Trial and its Aftermath, 1929-1934"

**April 1**  
[Christopher Dietrich](https://www.fordham.edu/info/20762/faculty/6397/christopher_dietrich) (Fordham University): "The Continuing Education of Ralph Bunche in the 1930s"

**April 29**  
[Ruodi Duan](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ruodi-duan) (Harvard University): "Chinese Visions of African American History, Politics, and Culture, 1960-1964"

## **2018-2019:**

**September 26**  
[Daniel Bessner](http://danielbessner.com/), University of Washington & Fredrik Logevall, HKS and History  
"Deprovincializing the United States: The History of the U.S. in the World after the International and Transnational Turns"  
Comment: Erez Manela, Harvard University

**October 17**  
[Joseph Fronczak](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/joseph-fronczak-0), Princeton University (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“Gangster for Capitalism: Smedley Butler Abroad in the Age of Empire”  
Comment: [Juliet Nebolon](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/juliet-nebolon), Harvard University

**October 31**   
[Ken Osgood](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/kenneth-osgood), Colorado School of Mines (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“Intelligence and Propaganda in U.S. Cold War Domestic Politics”  
Comment: [Daniel Chardell](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/daniel-chardell), Harvard University

**November 14**  
[Saje Mathieu](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-jane-mathieu), University of Minnesota (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“1919: Race, Riot, and Revolution”  
Comment: [Tejasvi Nagaraja](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/tejasvi-nagaraja), Harvard University

**November 28**  
[Rebecca Herman](https://history.berkeley.edu/rebecca-herman), University of California, Berkeley  
“The Global Politics of Anti-Racism: A View from the Canal Zone, 1940-1955”  
Comment: [Kristin Oberiano](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/kristin-oberiano), Harvard University

**January 30**  
[Gretchen Heefner](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/gretchen-heefner), Northeastern University (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“From the Red Desert to the Red Planet”  
Comment: [Angel Rodriguez](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/people/angel-rodriguez), Harvard University

**February 6**  
[Steffen Rimner](https://www.uu.nl/staff/SRimner/Profile), University of Utrecht  
“Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control ”

**February 13**  
[Kevin Kim](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/kevin-kim), University of Washington Bothell (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“'Never Again Enter Upon Such Crusades': Herbert C. Hoover and the Meaning of Conservatism”  
Comment: [David Allen](https://www.belfercenter.org/person/david-allen), Columbia University

**February 27**  
[Jessica Wang](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jessica-wang), University of British Columbia (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“The Mediterranean Fruit Fly in the Global Arena: Animals, Governance, and American Globalism in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i”  
Comment: [Nina Halty](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/nina-halta), Harvard University

**March 13**   
[Victor McFarland](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/victor-mcfarland), University of Missouri (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“Machines in Motion: The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Oil, 1967-73”  
Comment: [Marino Auffant](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/marino-auffant), Harvard University

**March 27**   
"A Century Later: Rethinking 1919"  
Speakers: [Saje Mathieu](https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/smathieu), [Michael Neiberg](http://neiberg102.wixsite.com/michael-neiberg), [Leonard Smith](https://www.oberlin.edu/leonard-smith)

**April 10**  
[Molly Geidel](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/molly-geidel), University of Manchester (Warren Center Faculty Fellow)  
“Seeing Like a Liberal Empire”  
Comment: [Ruodi Duan](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ruodi-duan), Harvard University

## **2017-2018:**

**September 20**  
[Mary Dudziak](http://law.emory.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/faculty-profiles/dudziak-profile.html), Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School  
"Death and the War Power: A History" (co-sponsored with the Warren Center for Studies in American History)

**October 4**  
Trygve Throntveit, Dean's Fellow for Civic Studies, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development  
"Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment" (co-sponsored with the Colloquium for Intellectual History)

**October 18 (\*Location: CGIS South, S050\*)**  
[William Taubman](https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/wctaubman), Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Amherst College  
"Gorbachev: His Life and Times" (co-sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian Studies)

**November 1**  
[Jessica Gienow-Hecht](http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/history/persons/Lehrende/gienow_hecht/index.html), Professor of History, Free University Berlin  
"Gender, Humanitarian Intervention and the War of 1898" (co-sponsored with the Warren Center for Studies in American History)

**November 29**  
[David Engerman](http://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=6e9a9b1bbad9a06f31780cbb5405ce5ce3925214), Ottilie Springer Professor of History, Brandeis University  
"The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India"

**February 7**  
[Heidi Tworek](http://www.history.ubc.ca/people/heidi-j-s-tworek), Assistant Professor in International History, University of British Columbia"Communicable Disease: The League of Nations and the Creation of World Epidemiological Intelligence" (Co-sponsored with the Center for History and Economics)

**March 28**  
[Glenda Sluga](http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/glenda.sluga.php), Professor of International History, University of Sydney  
"Women, Men and the Origins of International Society, 1812-1822" (co-sponsored with the Center for History and Economics)

**April 11**  
[Sulmaan Khan](http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Research/Faculty-Profiles/Diplomacy-Foreign-Policy-and-International-Organizations/Khan), Assistant Professor of International History and Chinese Foreign Relations, Tufts University  
"Chinese Grand Strategy: The Jiang Zemin-Hu Jintao Era"

**April 30 (4:15-6:00pm, Robinson Lower Library)**  
[Fred Cooper](http://as.nyu.edu/faculty/frederick-cooper.html), Professor of History, New York University  
"Post-imperial Possibilities: The Idea of Eurafrica in France and French Africa, 1945-1960" (co-sponsored with the Center for European Studies "New Directions in European History" Seminar)


## **2016-17:**

**September 21**  
[Lisa Ford](https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/lisa-ford/), University of New South Wales  
"Keeping the Peace in the Shadow of War: The British Empire and Order circa 1763"

**October 19**  
[Brian DeLay](http://history.berkeley.edu/people/brian-delay), University of California, Berkeley  
"Dambreaking: Guns, Capitalism, and the Independence of the Americas"

**November 16**  
[Vanessa Ogle](http://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/vanessa-ogle), University of Pennsylvania  
"Archipelago capitalism: tax havens, offshore finance, and special economic zones, 1920s-1980s"

**\*Monday\*, November 21**  
[Salim Yaqub](http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/salim-yaqub/), University of California, Santa Barbara  
"Oil-Gotten Gains: Petrodollars, Abscam, and Arab American Activism, 1973-1981"

**February 1**  
[Paul Kennedy](http://history.yale.edu/people/paul-kennedy), Yale University  
"Braudel, Profound History, and the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943"

**February 15**  
[Cemil Aydin](http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/cemil-ayden/), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  
"The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global History"

**\*Thursday\*, March 2**  
[Or Rosenboim](https://orrosenboim.com/), University of Cambridge  
"The Chicago World Constitution (1948) and the Quest for Post-war Order"

**March 22**  
[Adam Ewing](http://afam.vcu.edu/people/faculty/ewing.html), Virginia Commonwealth University  
"Promised Land: A People's History of the Global Pan-African Movement"

**April 5**  
[Anna Su](http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/anna-su), University of Toronto  
"The Rise and Fall of Universal Civil Jurisdiction"


## **2015-16:**

**September 23**  
[Philip J. Stern](https://history.duke.edu/people/philip-j-stern), Duke University  
"The Nomos of the Island: Law and Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese 'Transfer' of Bombay"

**September 30**  
[Michael Goebel](http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/en/homepages/goebel/), Free University, Berlin  
"Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism"

**October 21**  
[Jennifer Pitts](http://political-science.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/pitts.shtml), University of Chicago  
"Boundaries of the International: A Contribution to the Critical History of International Law"

**November 18**  
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University  
"Critical Rather than Realist or Idealist Histories; and Global Rather than International History: Beyond Mestizo International Law"

**February 10**  
[Elizabeth Borgwardt](https://history.artsci.wustl.edu/borgwardt), Washington University in St. Louis  
"The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Law, & Politics"

**March 2**  
[Daniel Immerwahr](http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/daniel-immerwahr/), Northwestern  
"How to Hide an Empire: Geography and Power in the Greater United States"

**April 6**  
[Timothy Nunan](http://timothynunan.com/), Harvard Academy  
"Persian Visions of Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism in a World at War"

**May 4**  
[David Engerman](http://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=6e9a9b1bbad9a06f31780cbb5405ce5ce3925214), Brandeis University  
"Development Politics and the Cold War"


## **2014-15:**

**HIGHS ON HIATUS**


## **2013-14**

**September 18**  
Panel: "The Collapse of Communism in Europe: New Perspectives" (25th anniversary of 1989) Speakers: Serhii Plokhii and Mary E. Sarotte, Respondents: Charles Maier and Terry Martin

**October 2**  
\*\* 4:15 PM, The Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS-020, 1730 Cambridge Street \*\*  
Sunil S. Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London  
"Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants"  
\*\* History and Economics Seminar event co-sponsored by HIGHS \*\*

**October 16**  
Davide Rodogno, The Graduate Institute, Geneva  
"Beyond relief in the Near East: the Near East Relief humanitarian practices and visions during the 1920s"  
Comment: Eva Bitran, Harvard University

**November 13**  
Jennifer Burns, Stanford University  
"Milton Friedman: The Economist as Historian"  
\*\* co-sponsored with the Center on History and Economics

**February 12**  
Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut  
"Self-determination, economic sovereignty and international history"  
Comment: Barnaby Crowcroft, Harvard University

**March 5**   
David Engerman, Brandeis   
"Planning for Prosperity: The Economic Cold War in India"  
Comment: Lydia Walker, Harvard University

**March 26**  
Stella Ghervas, Harvard & Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine  
"Balance of Power vs. Perpetual Peace: Evolution of the Paradigms of European Order from Utrecht to Vienna (1713-1815)"  
Comment: Marco Basile, Harvard University

**April 9**  
Asher Orkaby, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University  
"The International History of the Yemeni Civil War (1962-70)"  
Comment: Timothy Nunan, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

**April 11 SPECIAL EVENT**  
Conference: "The Power of Peace: New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)"  
Friday, April 11, 2:00pm - 6:00pm, Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall   
Co-sponsored by HIGHS and the Center for European Studies. For full details see [here](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1944).


## **2012-13:**

**September 19**  
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University  
"Institutions and Development: An International Historical Approach"  
Comment:   
James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University  
Tamara Kay, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

**October 10**  
Chen Jian, Michael J. Zak Chair of History for US China Relations, Cornell University  
"China, the Third World, and the Global Cold War"  
Comment: Steffen Rimner, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University

**November 28**  
Jo Guldi, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University  
"The Long Land War: A Global History of Land Reform, c. 1860-Present"  
Comment: Kirsten Weld, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

**February 13**  
Vanessa Ogle, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania  
"The Many Worlds That Unifying Time Created, 1880-1930"  
Comment: Heidi Tworek, Harvard University

**March 6 (Room change: Robinson Hall, Lower Library)**  
Daniel Sargent, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley  
"Managing Interdependence: The Experience of the United States in the mid-1970s"  
Comment: Hassan Malik, Harvard University

**April 3**  
Jenny Andersson, CNRS Fellow and Researcher, Sciences Po  
"Forging the American future: Forecasting from RAND to the Commission for the Year 2000"  
Comment: Lydia Walker, Harvard University

**April 17 (Robinson Hall Lower Library)**  
**\*\*Special Event on Digital History/Big Data, co-sponsored with the History Department\*\***  
Matthew Connelly, Professor of History, Columbia University  
"Decoding Official Secrecy: Computational Analysis of Hundreds of Thousands of Declassified Documents"

**April 24**  
Mira Siegelberg, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University  
"Is Statelessness Actually Evil? Codifying Statelessness at the United Nations and Beyond, 1954-1964"  
Comment: Samuel Moyn, Columbia University


## **2011-2012:**

**September 14**  
Charles Maier, Harvard University  
"Once within Borders: A History of Territoriality since 1500"  
Comment: Mira Siegelberg, Harvard University

**October 5**  
Julian Go, Boston University  
"Anti-Colonialism in the U.S. Empire, 1899-1935"  
Comment: Andrew Baker, Harvard University

**October 26**  
Ian Morris, Stanford University  
"War: What is it Good For?"  
Comment: Andrew Coe, Harvard University

**November 16**  
Rachel St John, Harvard University  
"The Imagined America of William McKendree Gwin: Individual Ambition and the Uneven Path of American Expansion"  
Comment: Shaun Nichols, Harvard University

**February 15**  
Tanisha Fazal, Columbia University  
"Declaring War and Peace"  
Comment: Danny Orbach, Harvard University

**March 7**  
Faculty roundtable: "Is All History Global?"   
Participants: Joyce Chaplin, Michael McCormick, Charles Maier, Erez Manela. Chair: David Armitage

**March 28**  
Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut  
"The Emotions of George Kennan"  
Comment: Eva Bitran

**April 20**  
Colin Kidd, Queen's University, Belfast  
"Race, Difference and the Origins of British Anthropology"  
\* Co-sponsored with the Center for History and Economics


## **2010-2011:**

**September 15**  
Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge   
"Religion and Morality in Franklin Roosevelt's Diplomatic Thought"  
Comment:   
Monica Toft, Harvard Kennedy School  
Leigh Schmidt, Harvard Divinity School

**October 6**  
Jessica Gienow-Hecht , University of Köln  
"How to Sell the State: Nation Branding, Civil Society and Cultural Diplomacy since 1850"  
Comment: Ann Wilson (Harvard University)

**October 27**  
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University  
International history of the Franco-Vietminh War  
Comment: Eva Bitran (Harvard University)

**November 17**  
Daniel Cohen, Rice University  
"European Refugees and "Population Redistribution" in the Early Cold War Period"  
Comment: Elisa Minoff (Harvard University)

**February 16**  
Mary Elise Sarotte, University of Southern California  
"Transatlantic Architectures of Order: The United States and the Shaping of Post-Cold War Europe"  
Comment: Philip Fileri (Harvard University)

**March 9**  
Penny von Eschen, University of Michigan  
"'God I Miss the Cold War': Emergent Nostalgias and New Enemies in the Former West and East"  
Comment: Uta Poiger (University of Washington)

**March 30**  
Jane Hong, Harvard University  
"Ending Asian Exclusion: Independence, Immigration, & the India League of America during World War II"  
Comment: Sugata Bose (Harvard University)

**April 20**  
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University   
"A New History of the Mandates System of the League of Nations"  
Comment: Erez Manela (Harvard University)


## **2009-2010:**

**September 24 (Thursday)**  
Roundtable on the legacy of Ernest R. May   
**Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room**  
Roundtable participants:   
Graham Allison (Harvard Kennedy School)  
Akira Iriye (Harvard History)  
Charles Maier (Harvard History)  
Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Harvard History)  
Philip Zelikow (University of Virginia)

**October 14**  
Jeremi Suri (University of Wisconsin, Madison)  
“A Nation-Building People: American Efforts at International Control without Empire, and the Consequences”  
Comment: Vernie Oliveiro (Harvard University)

**November 4**  
Alison Bashford (University of Sydney)  
“Food, Soil, People: Geopolitics and the World Population in the Mid-Twentieth Century”  
Comment: Paul Cruickshank (Harvard University)

**December 2**  
**\* Special venue: CGIS S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room) \***  
Linda Colley (Princeton University)  
“Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis"  
Comment: Penny Sinanoglu (Harvard University)

**February 3**  
Alison Frank (Harvard University)   
"The Fool's Duty: Cocaine Smuggling in the Austrian Empire and India, 1908-1914"  
Comment: Steffen Rimner (Harvard University)

**February 24**  
Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)  
"Origins of 'crimes against humanity'"  
Comment: Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University)

**March 22 (\*Monday\*)**  
Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine)  
"The Boxer Rebellion in Global Perspective"  
Comment: Konrad Lawson (Harvard University)

**April 21**  
Moshik Temkin (Harvard Kennedy School)  
"Malcolm X in France: Internationalism and the Limits of Political Tolerance"  
Comment: Adam Ewing (Harvard University)


## **2008-09:**

**September 24**  
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-2008: A 60th Anniversary Roundtable"  
Participants:   
Gary J. Bass (Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton)  
Caroline Elkins (Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies, Harvard)  
Noah Feldman (Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School)  
Ernest May (Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard)

**October 22**  
"Continental Empires: The United States and Russia"  
Jane Burbank (Professor of History, New York University) and  
Fred Cooper (Professor of History, New York University)

**November 19**  
“A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century”  
William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History, Harvard University, and Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University, discuss a chapter from their collaborative textbook.

**December 3**  
“Borders of Citizenship: Italian Repatriation after World War II”  
Pamela Ballinger (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin College)

**February 11**  
William O'Reilly, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge  
"Resurrecting Universal Empire: Spain, Europe and the Americas, 1680-1780"

**March 11**  
Erez Manela, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard University  
“A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease into Cold War History”

**April 8**  
Victoria de Grazia, Professor of History, Columbia University  
“The Soft Power Complex: A Short Critical History”

**April 29**  
Nico Slate, Graduate Student in History, Harvard University  
"Non-Violence and the Nation: Gandhian Satyagraha and Racial Equality in the United States during the Second World War"


## **2007-08:**

**October 3**  
"The Abolition of Slavery: Panel Discussion"  
Participants:   
Emmanuel Akyeampong, Professor of History, Harvard University  
Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard University  
Maya Jasanoff, Associate professor of History, Harvard University  
Kenneth Maxwell, Visiting Professor of History and Director, Brazilian Studies Program, Harvard University

**October 24**  
John R. McNeill, Professor of History and Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environmental and International Affairs, Georgetown University  
“The Cold War and the Biosphere”

**November 14**  
Eric Rauchway, Professor of History, University of California-Davis  
“The Nineteenth-Century U.S. as a Developmental State”

**December 5**  
Adam McKeown, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University  
"Global Migration and the Politics of Newness"

**February 20**  
David Ekbladh, Tufts University  
“Liberalism's Spine: 'Modernization' to Meet the Challenge of Totalitarianism, 1933-1944”

**March 12**  
David C. Engerman, Brandeis University  
“Knowing the Cold War Enemy”

**April 2**  
Brendan Simms, University of Cambridge  
“The Primacy of European Politics in Eighteenth-century Britain”

**April 30**  
Vernie Oliveiro, Harvard University  
“Restraining the Leviathans: The United States and the Global Governance of Multinational Corporations in the 1970s”


## **2006-07:**

**September 27**  
Mark Mazower (Columbia University)  
"The Nazi New Order in World History"

**October 18**  
Adriane Lentz-Smith (UNC-Chapel Hill)  
"Black Manhood & Black Internationalism in the Jazz Age"

**November 15**  
Daniel Sargent (Harvard University)  
"Crucible of Globalism: Human Rights, Transnational Politics, and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy, 1968-1980"

**December 13**  
Mary Lewis (Harvard University)  
"Ending Extraterritoriality? European Consular Justice and the French Rule of Law in Tunisia, 1880s-1920s"

**February 14**  
Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge)  
"Virtue and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Liberal and Republican Visions of Imperialism"

**March 7**  
Mark Elliott (Harvard University)  
"The Manchus and the Idea of Modern China"

**April 4**  
David Igler (UC-Irvine)  
"'Ocean of Business': The Geography of Commerce in the Eastern Pacific Basin, 1770s-1840s"

**May 2**  
Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington University of St. Louis)  
"Re-examining Nuremberg as a New Deal Institution: Politics, Culture, and the Limits of Law in Generating Human Rights Norms"  
**Please Note Different Location and Time: Lower Library, Robinson Hall, 1:00-3:00 p.m.**


## **2005-06:**

**October 5**  
Emma Rothschild (King's College, Cambridge and Harvard University)  
"Anxiety and Colonial Administration in Eighteenth-Century France"

**October 26**  
KC Johnson (Brooklyn College)  
"Congress and the Cold War, 1947-1987"  
\* Co-sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

**November 16**  
C.A. Bayly (University of Cambridge)  
"European Thought and the Wider World in the Nineteenth Century: A Provisional Agenda"

**December 14**  
Evan Dawley (Harvard University)  
"Constructing Identities in a Colonial and Post-Colonial Taiwanese City, 1895-1948"

**February 8 (CGIS)**  
Niall Ferguson (Harvard University)  
"The War of the World: Rethinking Global Conflict in the Twentieth Century"

**March 8 (CGIS)**  
Michael Auslin (Yale University)  
"Cultural Exchange and the Cosmopolitan Impulse: Mapping the U.S.-Japan Relationship"

**April 12 (BSR)**  
Lauren Benton (New York University)  
"Landlocked: The Legal Puzzles of Quasi-Sovereign Colonial Enclaves"

**Thursday, April 20 (BSR), 12:00-2:00**  
Andrew Preston (University of Victoria/Yale University)  
"The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam"  
\* Co-Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center's Kohn Family Fund in U.S. Military and Security History


## **2004-05:**

**October 13 (LL)**  
Panel Discussion: The Great Depression as Global History  
Charles Maier, Sugata Bose, John Coatsworth, and Roger Owen (Harvard University)  
Chair: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

**Tuesday, November 2 (BSR)**  
Matthew Connelly (Columbia University)  
"Unnatural History: Population Control and the Struggle to Remake Humanity"

**November 17 (LL)**  
David Blackbourn (Harvard University)  
"What Would a "Transnational" History of Imperial Germany Look Like?"

**December 15 (LL)**  
Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University)  
"The Nation in History and the Curved Arrow of Time"

**February 16 (LL)**  
Charles Maier (Harvard University)  
"Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors"

**March 16 (LL)**  
Paul Kramer (Johns Hopkins University)  
"The Blood of Government: Race and Empire Between the United States and the Philippines"

**April 12 (BSR)**  
Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University)  
"Remembering Devotion: Oral History and the Pilgrimmage to Mecca from Southeast Asia"

**April 20 (LL)**  
Julian Zelizer (Boston University)  
"The Death of Detente: President Gerald Ford and the Rise of a Neo-Conservative National Security Agenda"  
\* Co-sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History


## **2003-04:**

**October 1 (LL)**  
"100 Years to the Russo-Japanese War - A Colloquium"  
Sugata Bose (Harvard University)  
Akira Iriye (Harvard University)  
John LeDonne (Harvard University)

**October 29 (LL)**  
Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)  
"An American Empire? Implication for Democracy, Order, and Disorder in World Politics"

**November 16 (BSR)**  
Cemil Aydin (Ohio State University)  
"The Role of Anti-Western Ideas in International History: The Cases of Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism"

**February 11 (LL)**  
Ron Robin (Haifa University, Israel)  
"The Outsider as Marginal Scholar: Reflections on the Past, the Foreign, and Comparative Studies in American History"

**March 10 (LL)**  
Jonathan Conant (Harvard University )  
"New Rome, New Romans: The Re-Imposition of Imperial Rule in Late Antique North Africa, A.D. 533-698"

**March 24 (BSR)**  
Matthias Zachmann (Heidelberg University)  
"Conflict in a Nutshell: Japanese and International Reactions to the Tripartite Intervention (1895)"

**April 6 (Tuesday, BSR)**  
Christopher Goscha (University of Lyon II, France)  
"The Maritime Nature of the Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975"

**April 14 (LL)**  
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau (University of Bretagne-Sud and the University Institute of France)  
"Rethinking European colonial expansion: Some pointers"

**May 5 (LL)**  
Lisa McGirr (Harvard University) "Transnational Solidarities: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case in Global Perspective"