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Dr. Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Professor of History at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her recent book��Women, War and��the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971��(2011) has won numerous awards and been the subject of an international speaking tour.

Beginning in the thirteenth century, natural forces cooled Earth’s climate in a “Little Ice Age” that reached its chilliest point in the seventeenth century and, according to many scholars, destabilized societies around the world. Yet the precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighbouring societies unravelled.

History Speaker Series 2021-22

Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda

Dr Doreen Kembabazi

Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University, Belgium

; PhD, African History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Friday 26 November, 10:00am Eastern time via Zoom