#  Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 30, 2015** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop 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](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5445) (Harvard ID required) or by request to <jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu>.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ 2015–2016 ](/academic-year/2015-2016)
- [ Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History ](/event-categories/weatherhead-initiative-global-history)
 
 

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