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The Ottoman Empire and the English Financial Revolution: Making Money Global in the Late Seventeenth Century

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Sponsors: Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University. Speaker: Ellen Nye (Purdue/Harvard Academy), with a comment by Ida Beckett (Harvard). For a copy of the pre-circulated...

Rethinking France's Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History

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Host: Harvard International & Global History Seminar ( HIGHS ), co-sponsored with the History Seminar, Center for European Studies, and the Early Modern Workshop Speaker: Miranda Spieler (American University of Paris), Comment: Jin-Woo Choi (Harvard)...

Community, Corporation, and the Institutions of Britain’s Early Modern International Trade

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Sponsor: Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History Seminar Speaker Edmond Smith , Professor in Economic Cultures, University of Manchester Commentator Siân Davies , Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH. PhD in Economic and Social History, School of History...

Stephanie DeGooyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "The Right to Migration, 1689-1776". Comment: Angela Yan, Harvard. (The Harvard International and Global History Seminar, HIGHS)

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HIGHS Seminar: The Right to Migration, 1689-1776 The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS) https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs This session will take place in person, with an option for remote access. Please register in advance to...

Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), “Did Ireland Have an Empire?” (Harvard Early Modern Workshop, Dept of Celtic Languages & Literatures, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Celtic Literature and Culture, Harvard International and Global History

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Co-sponsored by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Celtic Literature and Culture, and the Harvard International and Global History Seminar. A lively discussion...

The ‘Western’ Mind: The Origins of a Myth, 1700–1800

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Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University. Speaker: Dmitri Levitin (Oxford) Abstract: In 1800, German writers started offering genealogies of modernity...

James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)”

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Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard. Abstract : The publication of Erik Pontoppidan’s Natural History of Norway (1752-55 in different language editions) offers a unique, multi-dimensional subject for a ‘book biography’...

Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University: "Strategies and Stereotypes in Renaissance Ethnography"

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Sponsor: Oakley Center and the History Department at Williams College, with additional support from Comparative Literature, the Graduate Program in the History of Art, Religion, Special Collections, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty The Keynote...

Francesca Trivellato, History, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton: The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe

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Sponsor: Weatherhead Initiative on Global History This year’s workshop, led by Sven Beckert and Sophus Reinert, will explore the theme of global capitalism. We have a wide range of papers exploring such issues as the Caribbean origins of modern capitalism...

Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ: "The Credit Nexus: Religious Toleration and Business Contracts in Livorno and Amsterdam,17th-18th Centuries"

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Sponsor: Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History, History of Global Capitalism seminar Commentators: Bora Gobekli, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Ellen M. Nye, Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University. Register by emailing...

Repression of Migrants and Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Learning from 21st-Century and 18th-Century Syria

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Aaron David Shakow, PhD Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School This talk will discuss tuberculosis among Syrian migrants in Lebanon and its relationship to the...

Prof. Brad Gregory (Notre Dame): "An Unorthodox History: The Anthropocene and Western Christianity". Commentator: Reed Morgan (Dept of History). (Sponsor: The Harvard International and Global History Seminar)

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For a copy of Prof. Gregory's precirculated paper, please contact Jesse Robertson .