Sherene Seikaly, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk on her current book project “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine” at Boston College on March 25. Her book will follow the trajectory of a peripatetic medical doctor, Seikaly’s great grandfather, to place Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.  Seikaly is author of the award-winning book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine, which examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. She is the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB, editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and co-editor of Jadaliyya. This event is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by the Boston College History Department. The lecture, to be held in Gasson 100 starting at 7 p.m., is free and open to the public, but registration is required.