Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date and Time

November 30, 2015
04:00PM - 06:00PM EST

Location

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Level Library

“The Geography of Containment: Colonialism, Slavery, the American Civil War, and the Making of Epidemiology”

Speaker:

Jim Downs, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College.

Commentator:

Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Westenley Alcenat, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.

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