The Indian Ocean’s Port Cities in the Anthropocene
Monday, December 02, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Building 9, 255
105 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
Please join us for the final lecture in the Engaged Urban Histories Series!
Sunil Amrith, Harvard University
History Department
Interim Director, Mahindra Humanities Center
Director, Center for History and Economics
The Indian Ocean’s Port Cities in the Anthropocene
December 2, 2019
5-6:30pm City Arena 9-255
Amrith's most recent book is Unruly Waters (Basic Books and Penguin UK), a history of the struggle to understand and control water in modern South Asia. His previous book, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard University Press, 2013) was awarded the American Historical Association's John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History in 2014. He is also the author of Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965 (Palgrave, 2006), as well as articles in journals including the American Historical Review, Past and Present, and Economic and Political Weekly.
Organized by the DUSP PhD Program
Funding: Bemis Fund, CDD, EPP, HCED, IDG & UIS
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