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  [###  Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought

 ](/event/waiting-people-idea-democracy-indian-anticolonial-thought)October 6, 2025

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 CGIS South 250 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### "I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You": The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought

 ](/event/i-put-my-fear-you-above-my-fear-you-role-emotions-ibn-al-jawzis)March 11, 2022

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### "The Nehru Years" by Swapna Kona Nayudu, in conversation with Erez Manela and Arunabh Ghosh

 ](/event/nehru-years-swapna-kona-nayudu-conversation-erez-manela-and-arunabh-ghosh)October 31, 2025

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 9:00AM - 10:30AM EDT 

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 https://harvard.zoom.us/j/6681476100?omn=94349404351 

 

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 Zoom link: <https://harvard.zoom.us/j/6681476100?omn=94349404351> Please email inquiries to <yiningchang@g.harvard.edu>

 

 

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   [### A Food Utopia? Ideas of Plenty and Italian Colonialism in Libya before WWI

 ](/event/food-utopia-ideas-plenty-and-italian-colonialism-libya-wwi)October 18, 2021

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### Africa for the Africans: A history of a Pan-African slogan

 ](/event/africa-africans-history-pan-african-slogan)April 22, 2022

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### Alterity and Identity: Two Paths for Post-(Neo)Liberal Politics

 ](/event/alterity-and-identity-two-paths-post-neoliberal-politics)March 4, 2022

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### Colonial Capitalism and Racialization in Asia: A View from the British Empire (Onur Ulas Ince)

 ](/event/colonial-capitalism-and-racialization-asia-view-british-empire-onur-ulas-ince)September 18, 2024

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 4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 CGIS South 153 

 

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 PRE-READ NOTICE: This is a pre-read workshop. To receive the pre-circulated draft, please email <yiningchang@g.harvard.edu>. This event is co-hosted with the Capitalism and Its Critics Workshop. This presentation lays out the main theoretical and historical... 

 

 

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   [### George III and the Law of Nations: A Global Intellectual Microhistory?

 ](/event/george-iii-and-law-nations-global-microhistory)November 22, 2021

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### In the Twilight of Attica: Toward a Genealogy of Anti-Carceral Thought

 ](/event/twilight-attica-toward-genealogy-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 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### Internationalism as Decadence: Raymond Aron's Early Critique of Pacifism

 ](/event/internationalism-decadence-raymond-arons-early-critique-pacifism)April 15, 2022

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### Islamic Socialism: Visions of Islamic Statehood and an Islamic International from the East

 ](/event/islamic-socialism)October 25, 2021

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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   [### Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought

 ](/event/leo-strauss-and-islamic-philosophy)October 22, 2021

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 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT 

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 via Zoom 

 

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 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... 

 

 

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