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
December 6: Secil Yilmaz and Abdulhamit Arvas
Both, University of Pennsylvania
“Ottoman Sexual Histories”
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)
“Authoritarian Europe and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality”
Cosponsored with Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
February 12: Sarah Pearsall
Johns Hopkins University
April 1: Lydia Walker
Ohio State University
April 15: Durba Mitra
Harvard University

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. These papers are all protected by the same password, which you can receive by emailing David Kerry (david.kerry@yale.edu) or Kyle Zarif (kyle.zarif@yale.edu)