#  Global American Studies Symposium 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 1, 2017** 

 08:15AM - 05:45PM EST 

####  pin\_drop 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)

 10:45 to 10:55 – SHORT BREAK 10:55 to 12:35 – BLACK LIBERATION ACROSS CENTURIES- *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)

 12:35 to 1:30 – LUNCH 1:30 to 3:30 – MIGRATION AND THE TRANSNATIONAL- *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)

 3:30 to 3:40 – SHORT BREAK 3:40 to 5:30 – *(ANTI-)* IMPERIALISM- *“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)



 

 



 

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