Online Event
This event is part of the International History and Politics Forum.
The International History and Politics Department warmly invites you to this International History and Politics Forum event. The International History Forum and Politics (IHPF) is a regular series of discussions convened by the International History and Politics Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies to discuss a variety of global questions from a multiplicity of historically-informed perspectives.
M’hamed Oualdi is full professor of history at Sciences Po-Paris. He is a historian of Early Modern and Modern North Africa trained in Arabic at Inalco-Paris and in history at the Sorbonne University (Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) from which he obtained his PhD in 2008. Prior to joining the faculty at Sciences Po, he was associate professor at Princeton University (2013-2019) and maître de conferences at Inalco-Paris (2010-2013). His research has centered on two main topics: on slavery and its social impacts on Ottoman Tunisia and on the many effects of transitioning from the Ottoman rule to a French colonial domination in North African societies.