Title: “Like Animals: Grace, History, and the Terror of Imperial Reason.” Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.
Please join the Approaches to Global History seminar. We will meet to discuss Ilham Khuri-Makdisi's paper, "Al-Bustani's Arabic Encyclopedia (1870s-1880s) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant." Please email Aaron Bekemeyer at bekemeyer@g.harvard.edu to request the paper. All are welcome!
Title: “North American Necropolitics and Gender- On #BlackLivesMatter and Black Femicide.” Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.
Albert Woodfox and Robert King were exonerated after spending decades imprisoned in Angola Penitentiary (formerly Angola Plantation) in Louisiana. King spent 29 years in solitary confinement before his release in 2001. Woodfox spent 41 years in solitary confinement before his release in 2016. The third member of the Angola 3, Herman Wallace, passed away in 2013 days after being released. All three were placed in long-term solitary confinement because of their role in forming a chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Angola.
Please join the Approaches to Global History seminar. We will meet to discuss Sara Lorenzini's paper, "Competing Visions of North-South Relations in the 20th Century: The Case of European Development Aid." Please email Aaron Bekemeyer at bekemeyer@g.harvard.edu to request the paper. All are welcome!
We will meet in the Lower Library in Robinson Hall to discuss Casey Primel's paper, "Through a Camera Obscura: Economic Science and the Emergence of the Market in Colonial Egypt." Please email Aaron Bekemeyer at bekemeyer@g.harvard.edu to request the paper. All are welcome!
Title:“The Strange Career of Education Reform: Businessmen, Behaviorists, and the Path from the War on Poverty to No Child Left Behind.” Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.
Presenter: TÂMIS PARRON Volkswagen Global Fellow, WIGH; University of São Paulo, Brazil
Commentators: WALTER JOHNSON, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University ANIKET DE, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
