Global American Studies Symposium
Date and Time
December 1, 2017
08:15AM - 05:45PM EST
Location
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.
8:15 to 8:45 – GATHER and LIGHT REFRESHMENTS 8:45 to 10:45 – NATIONS AND EMPIRES
- Seminoles and Their Many Worlds – Mandy Izadi (Oxford University)
- Odor and Power in the Americas: Olfactory Consciousness from Columbus to Emancipation – Andrew Kettler (University of Toronto)
- Grasping the Gulf: Indian War in Nineteenth-Century Florida and Yucatán – Sophie Hunt (University of Michigan)
- A Haitian Plea for Captain John Brown – Mary Grace Albanese (Binghamton University)
- On the Imminence of Emancipation: Slavery and Anglo-American Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil – Isadora Mota (University of Miami)
Chair: Christopher Clements (Harvard University)
- Gwendolyn Brooks and the Politics of Cleanliness; Or, the Persistent Afterlife of the Restrictive Covenant
– Lisa Young (Washington University in St. Louis) - The Art of Solidarity: Imaging/Imagining the Black Panthers' Internationalism – Erin Reitz (Northwestern University)
- The Science of Antislavery: Scientists, Antislavery, and the Myth of Slavery’s Backwardness – Eric Herschthal (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library)
- The Dragons' of Skid Row: The Spatial Politics of Deinstitutionalization, Multiculturalism, and Gay Rights in Global Los Angeles – Nic John Ramos (Brown University)
Chair: Tejasvi Nagaraja (Harvard University)
- The Social Form of Remittances – Paul Nadal (Wellesley College)
- American Refugees: The US State Department's Relief Efforts for Americans Abroad in World War I – Evan Taparata (University of Minnesota)
- If You Cannot Deport or Release Us, We Demand Improved Meat”: Deportation Infrastructure and Immigration Detention in the 1920s – Emily Pope-Obeda (Harvard University)
- "The Bold Muslims that We Are": Gender Dynamics, Education Against Empire, and the Translation of African-American Muslim Anti-Colonialism in a Bermudian Sunni Muslim Community – Alaina Morgan (Stanford University)
- Resistiendo el Sol: Spatial Politics and Carceral Landscapes in Colorado Sugar Towns – Bernadette Pérez (Princeton University)
Chair: postdoc Melissa Castillo-Garsow (Harvard University)
- “Puerto Rico in Never-Never Land”: Questions of Law and Sovereignty in the Age of PROMESA – Mónica Jiménez (University of Texas, Austin)
- “A Great and Rising Nation”: American Naval Exploration and the Forging of a Global Maritime Empire, 1815-1860 – Michael Verney (Smithsonian Institution Libraries)
- Internationalizing the Antiwar Movement: The Vietnam War and Transatlantic Antiwar Activism in the 1960s and 1970s – Salar Mohandesi (Bowdoin College)
- “Not so much Gandhi...”: African American scholar-activists read Krishnalal Shridharani's War Without Violence in the 1940s – Malathi Iyengar (College of San Mateo)
Chair: Juliet Nebolon (Harvard University)