Upcoming Events

*TIME UPDATE: This event will be taking place at 7–8.30pm EST on 31 March , not 6pm as previously stated.* Professor Oguma Eiji (Keio University, Japan) presents his paper, "The indigenization of the concept of race in modern East Asia: What was/is minzu...

Professor Han Hsien Liew (Arizona State University) presents his ongoing work on Ibn al-Jawzi, "'I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You': The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought". Title may be subject to further change. This event is...

Professor Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) presents his paper, "Alterity and Identity: Two Paths for Post-(Neo)LIberal Politics." Please note that the tite is subject to further change. Huey Hewitt (Harvard University) will discuss. Please pre-register...

Professors Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) and Taomo Zhou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) discuss their ongoing work to reframe China's Reform and Opening as a process of transnational knowledge production, paying special attention to dam...

In this roundtable, Professors Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge) and David Armitage (Harvard University) return with Professor Joshua Simon (Johns Hopkins University) to explore what the "global" is, could be, and perhaps should be, in the theory...

Professor David Armitage (Harvard University) will present his paper, “George III and the Law of Nations: A Global Intellectual Microhistory?". Théophile Deslauriers (Princeton University) will respond. Please pre-register to receive the Zoom link and...

Professor Robbie Shilliam (Political Science Department, Johns Hopkins University) will present his paper “The Politics of 'Social Death': Social Anthropology Versus Rastafari Reason." Panashe Chigumadzi (African and African American Studies, Harvard...

Professor Teren Sevea (Harvard University, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies) will present his ongoing work, "Islamic Socialism: Visions of Islamic Statehood and an Islamic International from the East". Yi Ning Chang...

Dr. Or Rosenboim (Director of the Centre for Modern History, Department of International Politics at City, University of London) will present her paper, “A Food Utopia? Ideas of Plenty and Italian Colonialism in Libya before WWI." Catey Boyle (History...

Professor Rasoul Namazi (Duke University-Kunshan, China) will present his work on Leo Strauss's political philosophy and Islam. Professor Thomas Meyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and Professor David DiPasquale (Boston College) will provide...