Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History

"Profits and Peril: The Rise of Commercial Caravans on the Northern Frontier of the Qing Empire" Speaker: George Qiao , Assistant Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College. Commentators: Charlotte Ciavarella, Graduate...

"The Workshop of the World: Trading Factories and Capitalism in the Early Modern Indian Ocean" Speaker: Giorgio Riello, Professor of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute; Principal investigator, ERC project on The Asian Origins of...

"Money on Trial: The Localization of Global Coinage in 17th-Century Istanbul" Speaker: Ellen M. Nye , Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University. Commentator: Mehmet Durmaz, AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East, Center for Middle Eastern...

"Warfare and Political Construction in West Africa: Global Issues and Dynamics" Speaker: Lamine Faye, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History (fall 2024). Assistant Professor, History Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University...

"'A Mobile Display Window at Home': Television, Advertising, and Markets in the Developmental Era” Speaker: Pablo Pryluka , Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. PhD, Department of History, Princeton University. Commentator...

“Money Is No Object: How Understanding Capitalism as Capture-of-the-Future Changes the Way We Grasp its History” Speaker: Timothy Mitchell, William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University. Commentator...

"Sport's Real Game: How Public Attention Influences Governments and Means More than Making Money" Speaker: Layne Vandenberg, Advisor to the FIFA 2026 World Cup Host City of Boston; Political Economist, Lau China Institute, King's College London. Contact...

"'The Workingman's Paradise': Migration, White Laborism, and the Borders of Socialist Solidarity, 1893-1919" Speaker: Natalie Behrends, Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Contact: Jessica Barnard jbarnard...

"Nations Ascendant: The Global Struggle Against Empire and the Making of Our World" Speaker: Zaib Aziz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa...

"Making Socialism Work: Economic Reform and the Soviet Enterprise, 1960s-2000s" Speaker: James Nealy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. PhD, Department of History, Duke University. Comments: Jackie Erlon-Baurjan, A.M...