#  Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar: Student Presentations 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 21, 2014** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS Knafel Building,1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050**  



 

 



 

## "Cotton, Cloth, and the Cultures of Violence on the Upper Guinea Coast: Merchants, Migrants, Slaves and Speculators, 1785-1805"

### Speaker:

**Jody Benjamin,** *PhD Candidate in African and African American History, Harvard University.*

### Commentator:

**Steven Serels,** *WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow.* PhD in History, McGill University, Canada.

## "The Global Life of Camphor and the Japanese Empire of Scents, 1890-1940"

### Speaker:

**Feng-En Tu,** *PhD Candidate in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University.*

### Commentator:

**Robert Julio Decker,** *WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow.* PhD Candidate in History and Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

The precirculated seminar papers are available at <http://bit.ly/wighseminar> (Harvard ID required) or by request to <jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu>.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ 2013–2014 ](/academic-year/2013%E2%80%932014)
- [ Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History ](/event-categories/weatherhead-initiative-global-history)
 
 

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