The Harvard Graduate Conference on International History: Migration, Immigration, & Diaspora

The organizing committee for the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) will hold its seventeenth annual conference. This year’s theme is migration in international and global history. Human migration, immigration and diasporas have played a fundamental role in world development and continue to do so. The forced and free movements of people throughout history intersect with some of the most important subjects of urbanization, imperialism, slavery, capitalism and globalization. Con-IH 17 seeks to discuss cutting-edge studies that take up the subject of migration in international, regional, and global historical context, for any era from Antiquity to the present, and proceeding outward from any world region. The 2017 keynote speaker is Paul Kramer, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University. The Conference will feature twelve papers by graduate students studying in seven countries whose research on migration, immigration, and diaspora spans the 13th to the 21st centuries and touches nearly every continent.