*Name changed from Global and International History Workshop (GIHW) to Global History Seminar (GHS)
Fall 2024:
September 30 - Isaac Nakhimovsky, Yale University, The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
October 14 - James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University, ”Legal Realism after Nuremberg: Raphael Lemkin, Robert Jackson, and the Transatlantic Legal Imagination”
October 28 - Jonathan Sheehan, University of California–Berkeley, “The Enlightenment: Secular Experiments in the Sacrificial Imagination”
December 2 - Gabriel Rocha, Brown University, “Schemes of Eternal Returns: Afonso de Torres and the Rise of Atlantic Carreras, 1520s–1550s”
Spring 2024:
February 12 - Sarah Pearsall, Johns Hopkins University, “Freedom Round the Globe: A New History of the American Revolution”
February 15 - Alvita Akiboh, Yale University, Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire
April 1 - Lydia Walker, Ohio State University, States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
April 15 - Durba Mitra, Harvard University, “The Conference, or, What if Gathering Together Liberated Us?”
Fall 2023:
October 2 - Fahad Bishara, University of Virginia, “Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History”
November 13 - David Armitage, Harvard University, “Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Eighteenth-Century Diplomatic Culture”
December 6 - Secil Yilmaz and Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania, “Ottoman Sexual Histories”
Spring 2023:
January 30 - Paul Landau, University of Maryland at College Park, “Black Communists and the Revolution: South Africa, 1960”
March 6 - Amna Qayyum, Yale University, Jackson School Kissinger Visiting Scholar, “Islamic Modernism and the Ethics of Birth Control in Pakistan”
April 3 - Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania, “Knowledge Without a Nation, Concepts Without a Discipline: Albert O. Hirschman and the Irony of Cold War Development Assistance”
Fall 2022:
October 3 - Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, New York University, “Post-Imperial Possibilities:
Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia”
November 14 - Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University, “To Reckon with the Riot: Social Protest and Global Economic Governance”
December 5 - Philip Stern, Duke University, “The Wild Chimera of a Visionary Brain: Corporations, Legal Geography, and the Making of the “British” Empire”
Spring 2021:
February 15 - Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales, The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire
March 1 - Sujit Sivaundaram, University of Cambridge, Waves Across the South: A New HIstory of Revolution and Empire
March 29 - Natasha Wheatley, Princeton University, “Making a World of States”
April 12 - Edward Keene, University of Oxford, “What is the International System?”
Fall 2020:
October 1 - Sara Abrevaya Stein, University of California–Los Angeles, “Botánica Sephardica”
October 22 - Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge, Dreamworlds of Race: Empir and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America
November 5 - Mira L. Siegelberg, University of Cambridge, “Statelessness: A Modern History”
November 19 - Anna Katharina Becker, Aarhus University, “Corpus rei publicae: The Early Modern State Embodied”
Fall 2019
September 24 - Agnieszka Sobocinska, Monash University, “Saving the World? Western volunteers and the rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex”
October 10 - Brooke Blower, Boston University, “Gibraltars of the Pacific: American Colonialism in Southeast Asia and the Road to Pearl Harbor”
October 23 - Arne Westad and Greg Grandin, Yale University, A conversation on “What Is International History?
November 7 - Isaac Nakhimovsky, Yale University, “The Russian Century That Wasn’t: Liberalism, the Holy Alliance, and the History of Global Order”
November 20 - Or Rosenboim, University of London, “Political spaces: Empires and Nations in the History of International Thought
December 3 - Kris Manjapra , Tufts University, “Racial Capitalism as Necrospeculation”
Fall 2018
October 3 - Faculty Panel Discussion on “Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India,” David Engerman, Yale University
November 29 - Erez Manela, Harvard University, “International Society as Historical Subject”
Spring 2018:
February 15 - Deborah Coen, Yale University, “Climate and Empire: Habsburg History for teh Anthropocene”
March 1 - Samuel Moyn, Yale University, “Global Intellectual History” with a response by Rohit De
March 8 - Jennifer Allen, Yale University, “National Commemoration in an Age of Transnationalism”
April 12 - Srinath Raghavan, King’s College, “Fierce Enigmas: The United States & South Asia in the Long Twentieth Century”
April 19 - Gabriella Soto Laveaga, Harvard University, “Experimental Camps, Hybrid Seeds, and Contesting Histories: ‘Development’ before Development Aid in Mexico & India”
April 26 - Ben Kiernan, Yale University, “Viet Nam: A History of the Earliest Times to the Present”
Fall 2017
October 5 - Yale Faculty Roundtable “Beyond Borders: New Directions in International History”
October 13 - Joanna Lewis, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Death Iconicity and Emotion: (the journey) to Livingston, Africa and an Empire of Sentiment”
Nov 2nd - Laura Beers, University of Birmingham, “Ellen Wilkinson’s International Spiderweb”
Nov 9th - Micol Seigel, Indiana University–Bloomington, “Violence Work: Reflections on Transnational Method in Studying the State”
Spring 2016
February 9 - Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University, ”Building the World: Construction and the Business of Global Modernization”
February 16 - David Armitage, Harvard University, “Three Narratives of Civil War: Recurrence, Remembrance, and Reform from Sulla to Syria”
March 8 - Marci Shore, Yale University, “The Lost Treasure of Revolution:The Maidan and the Return of Metaphysics in Eastern Europe”
March 29 - Ed Rugemer, A Yale University, “The Slaveholders’ Revanché: Jamaica and South Carolina during the Era of the Haitian Revolution”
April 5 - Jay Sexton, Oxford University, “The Nineteenth Century U.S. Steam Empire”
April 26 - Paul Kennedy, Yale University, “The Creation of a New Book: ‘Grand Strategy and the Shifting Naval Power Balances, 1936- 1947’”