Harvard International and Global History Seminar

PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. Palestine, Israel, and the Road to Permanent International Intervention, 1947-1949 Speaker Derek Penslar, Faculty Associate (on leave fall 2026). William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of...

Panel: Revolution as a Comparative Method Panelists Ibrahim Elhoudaiby, Postdoctoral Associate, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. Idriss P. Fofana, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Sylvia Sellers-García, Associate...

The Guns That Went into and out of the US Civil War Speaker Brian Delay, Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States, University of California, Berkeley. Chairs David R. Armitage, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Lloyd C...

The Ottoman Empire and the English Financial Revolution: Making Money Global in the Late Seventeenth Century Speaker Ellen Nye, Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University. Comment Ida Beckett, MA Candidate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies...

Man of the World: The Cosmology of a Victorian Globetrotter Speaker Stuart Ward, 2025-2026 Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies, Harvard University; Professor and Head of the Saxo Institute for History, Ethnology, Archaeology and...

Real Estate in the Middle East? - Capitalist Territoriality and Imperial Statecraft in French Syria, 1918–1923 Speaker Adam Mestyan, Faculty Associate. Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and...

International Interventions in Greece in the Shadow of the Crimean War Speaker Georgios Giannakopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Department of International Politics; Associate Dean Enterprise, Engagement and Employability, School of Policy &...

Rethinking France’s Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History Speaker Miranda Spieler, Professor, Department of History and Politics, The American University of Paris. Chairs David R. Armitage, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar...

Moralizing Capitalism: International Christian Commitments to Corporate Social Responsibility Speaker Sandrine Kott, Professor of Modern European History, Department of General History, University of Geneva; Global Distinguished Professor of History...

“'The Great Marketplace': African Development in a Neoliberal World” Speaker: Vivien Chang, Postdoctoral Fellow in US Foreign Policy and International Security, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. Comment: Quinn Slobodian...