Postdoctoral Fellows Christina Davidson,Tejasvi Nagaraja, Juliet Nebolon, and Kristina Shull will offer brief presentations of their work, and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies.
Christina Davidson: "Converting Hispaniola: Religious Race-Making from Santo Domingo to Chicago 1880-1893."
Tejasvi Nagaraja: "Soldiers of the American Dream: War Work, Jim...
Title: "Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction. A Warren Center "occasional speaker", in collaboration with the American Studies Program.
As “American dream” became a cliché in the 20th century, the contrary refrain of American nightmare was probably inevitable. This talk is about American culture and European reconstruction. Alongside the familiar currents of Henry Luce’s American Century run stranger currents of culture, as the ruin of postwar Europe led writers and...
Between 2014 and 2016 an estimated 1.6 million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean by boat to Europe. Over 12,000 deaths were recorded of people trying to make the journey, and many more unrecorded deaths are thought to have occurred elsewhere along the way before reaching the sea. In 2015, at the height of Europe’s so-called ‘migrant/refugee crisis’, over one million arrivals were recorded in Italy and Greece and 3771 people died during the crossing. Against this backdrop, the paper locates the discussion over migrant deaths at sea in the context of debates on borders,...
