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 Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought
October 6, 2025
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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CGIS South 250
In Person
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024) examines how a foundational set of disputes over the terms of modern peoplehood underwrote the formation of...

A Food Utopia? Ideas of Plenty and Italian Colonialism in Libya before WWI
October 18, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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via Zoom
Virtual
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...

Africa for the Africans: A history of a Pan-African slogan
April 22, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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via Zoom
Virtual
Professor Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) presents her paper, "Africa for the Africans: A history of a Pan-African slogan." Oluwaseyi "Shae" Omonijo (Harvard University) will discuss. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Harvard Sociology Workshop...

Alterity and Identity: Two Paths for Post-(Neo)Liberal Politics
March 4, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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via Zoom
Virtual
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...

George III and the Law of Nations: A Global Intellectual Microhistory?
November 22, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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via Zoom
Virtual
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...

In the Twilight of Attica: Toward a Genealogy of Anti-Carceral Thought
April 30, 2026
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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61 Kirkland St, 202 Meeting Room (Harvard University
In Person
In the Summer of 2020, calls to defund and abolish the police rattled the bars of the public sphere. Scholars have since questioned the logic animating those calls — why should the history of police and prisons foreclose the possibility of reform? Why do...

Internationalism as Decadence: Raymond Aron's Early Critique of Pacifism
April 15, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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via Zoom
Virtual
Professor Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Wesleyan University) presents his paper, "Internationalism as Decadence: Raymond Aron's Early Critique of Pacifism." Title may be subject to further change. Simon Luo (Indiana University) will discuss. This event is...

Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought
October 22, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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via Zoom
Virtual
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...