Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History

Panel: Histories and Futures of the Global Environment These panels bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to consider the past, present, and future of the "global environment." The first panel will focus on histories of the environment in...

Lively (linghuo) Accumulation: China’s 1980s Coastal Development Strategy and Histories of Capitalist and Socialist Crises Speaker Andrew Liu, Associate Professor of History, Villanova University. Commentators Ya-Wen Lei, Faculty Associate. Professor of...

From Sheltering Wealth to Sheltering Nazis: Tax Havens During World War II Speaker Vanessa Ogle, Associate Professor of History, Yale University. Commentator Dmitry Bilous, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University. Contact Jessica Barnard jbarnard...

Uprooted by Capital: Socialist Interpretations of Labor Migration in the Age of Empire (1870-1910) Speaker Lucas Poy, Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Commentators TBA Contact Jessica Barnard...

Tropical Deforestation and Indigenous Resistance in South America Since 1500 Speaker Freg Stokes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. Contact Jessica...

PLEASE NOTE: Due to inclement weather, this event has been postponed until March 9. Tropical Deforestation and Indigenous Resistance in South America Since 1500 Speaker Freg Stokes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History...

Between Plantation and Penrhyn Quarry Speaker Siân Davies, Postdoctoral Fellow. PhD in Economic and Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh. Chair Sven Beckert, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead...

Fuel of Empires: Agronomy, Autarky, and Interwar Soybean Frontiers Speaker Rachel Steely, PhD in History, Harvard University. Commentator Rachel Hsu, Graduate Student, Committee on Regional Studies, East Asia, Harvard University Contact Jessica Barnard...

Please note that this event has been rescheduled to February 2, 2026. Fuel of Empires: Agronomy, Autarky, and Interwar Soybean Frontiers Speaker Rachel Steely, PhD in History, Harvard University. Commentator Rachel Hsu, Graduate Student, Committee on...

Community, Corporation, and the Institutions of Britain’s Early Modern International Trade Speaker Edmond Smith, Professor in Economic Cultures, University of Manchester. Commentator Siân Davies, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global...