Harvard International and Global History Seminar

This seminar is open to the public.

The Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

The seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has met several times each term on Wednesday afternoons since 2003.

Seminar Website

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Chairs

Erez Manela

Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History; Interim Director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University.

Research interests: International history; evolution of international society; US foreign relations; modern Middle East; modern East Asia; and international and global health.

Erez Manela.

Jamie Martin

Faculty Associate.
Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of international political economy; the world wars; empire and colonialism; economic crisis; and history of economic and political thought.

Jamie Martin photo

Upcoming Seminars

HIGHS: Harvard International and Global History Seminar

November 18, 2026
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EST
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Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (125)

Remaking the Economy: Performing Digital Sovereignty in Postcolonial Kenya

Speaker: Bulelani Jili, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

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HIGHS: Harvard International and Global History Seminar

December 2, 2026
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3:45PM - 5:45PM EST
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Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (125)

From Law to Force: Ending the Ottoman Capitulations, 1914-1923

Speaker: Aimee Genell, Assistant Professor of International History, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

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