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History Seminar


This History Seminar showcases the most exciting work in the field of modern European history. Deliberately broad in scope, the presentations cut across traditional geographic and methodological boundaries. They combine polished papers and “work in progress” and feature scholars in all career stages.


Seminar Events Calendar

Rethinking France's Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History History Seminar and Harvard International & Global History Seminar — Rethinking France's Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History
October 29, 2025
3:45pm - 5:45pm
  • Miranda Spieler – Professor, American University of Paris
  • Chair David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Erez Manela – Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard University
Europe without Borders: A Conversation with Isaac Stanley-Becker History Seminar — Europe without Borders: A Conversation with Isaac Stanley-Becker
March 9, 2026
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Isaac Stanley-Becker – Staff Writer, The Atlantic
  • Chair and Discussant Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard History Department, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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