#  Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 7, 2016** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Level Library**  



 

 



 

## “Wastelands, Heartlands and El Dorados: Rethinking China’s Western Frontiers from High Qing to 20th Century”

### Speaker:

**Kenneth Pomeranz**, *University Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Chicago.*

### Commentator:

**Sunil Amrith**, *Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Professor of History, Harvard University.*

### Graduate Student Commentator:

**Tamer Elshayal**, *PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design.*

### Contact:

**Jessica Barnard**  
<jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu>

The precirculated paper is available at <http://bit.ly/wigh2015> (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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