Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date and Time

April 11, 2016
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Level Library

“Africans on the World Stage: a Critique of World Historiography”

Speaker:

Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, University of Pittsburgh.

Commentator:

Jean Comaroff, Faculty Associate. Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Sarah Balakrishnan, PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

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.

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