Fall 2023
September 11: Ayşe Zarakol
University of Cambridge
“Bringing Nature Back into the History of International Politics”
Location: HQ 132
Time: 4-5:30 PM
October 2: Fahad Bishara
University of Virginia
“Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History”
Location: HQ 132
Time: 4-5:30 PM
November 13: David Armitage
Harvard University
“Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Eighteenth-Century Diplomatic Culture”
Location: HQ 132
Time: 4-5:30 PM
December 6: Secil Yilmaz and Abdulhamit Arvas
Both, University of Pennsylvania
“Ottoman Sexual Histories”
Location: HQ 136
Time: 5 PM
Cosponsored with Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
Spring 2024
February 1: Camille Robcis (Columbia University), Dagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center) and Hadley Renkin (Central European University)
Moderated by Carolyn Dean (Yale University)
“Authoritarian Europe and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality”
Location: HQ 276
Time: 5 PM
Cosponsored with Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
February 12: Sarah Pearsall
Johns Hopkins University
Location: HQ 401
Time: 4-5:30 PM
February 15: Alvita Akiboh
Yale University
Book Talk: Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire
In conversation with David Engerman, Beverly Gage, and Stephen Pitti
Location: HQ 134
Time: 4PM
Cosponsored with the Department of History and the Modern US Workshop
April 1: Lydia Walker
Ohio State University
States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
Location: HQ 401
Time: 4-5:30 pm
April 15: Durba Mitra
Harvard University
“The Conference, or, What if Gathering Together Liberated Us?”
Location: HQ 107
Time: 4-5:30 PM
The hyperlinks to the reading for this semester’s events will be circulated via email and added to this site a week prior to each meeting.