Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
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 at Harvard and supported by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, typically meets four times each term on Wednesday afternoons.
The schedule for 2009-2010 is below. Please scroll to the bottom of the page for past years.
* Unless otherwise noted, sessions are held on Wednesdays at 4:00 pm in CGIS-South (1730 Cambridge Street), room S-050, and papers are circulated in advance by email.Fall 2009
September 24 (Thursday)
Roundtable on the legacy of Ernest R. May
Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room
*Please note the special day and venue. No advance papers*
Roundtable participants:
Graham Allison (Harvard Kennedy School)
Akira Iriye (Harvard History)
Charles Maier (Harvard History)
Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Harvard History)
Philip Zelikow (University of Virginia)
October 14
Jeremi Suri (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“A Nation-Building People: American Efforts at International Control without Empire, and the Consequences”
Comment: Vernie Oliveiro (Harvard University)
November 4
Alison Bashford (University of Sydney)
“Food, Soil, People: Geopolitics and the World Population in the Mid-Twentieth Century”
Comment: Paul Cruickshank (Harvard University)
December 2
* Special venue: CGIS S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room) *
Linda Colley (Princeton University)
“Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis"
Comment: Penny Sinanoglu (Harvard University)
Spring 2010
February 3
Alison Frank (Harvard University)
"The Fool's Duty: Cocaine Smuggling in the Austrian Empire and India, 1908-1914"
Comment: Steffen Rimner (Harvard University)
February 24
Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
"Origins of 'crimes against humanity'"
Comment: Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University)
March 22 (*Monday*)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine)
"The Boxer Rebellion in Global Perspective"
Comment: Konrad Lawson (Harvard University)
April 21
Moshik Temkin (Harvard Kennedy School)
"Malcolm X in Europe, 1964-1965"
Comment: Adam Ewing (Harvard University)
Past Sessions