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International History and Politics
Tuesday
10
May
Sreemati Mitter

Frozen: A Financial Account of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948

Sreemati Mitter
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MdP Auditorium 2 and Online

Sreemati Mitter, Brown University 

Chair: Professor Nicole Bourbonnais

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Sreemati Mitter is the Kutayba alGhanim Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is completing her first book, A History of Money in Palestine. Her work examines the economic, financial and monetary history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. and Master’s in history from Harvard University, a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a BA in Economics from Middlebury College. She previously worked for the Palestine Investment Fund in Ramallah, Palestinian Territories and at Credit Suisse in New York, for the Energy and Project Finance Group of its Investment Banking Division.

 

The International History and Politics Forum (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.

The IHFP takes place every other Tuesday from 16:15 to 18:00 in Auditorium 2 at the Graduate Institute (Maison de la paix) or online during the autumn and spring academic semesters.