Global American Studies Symposium

Date: 

Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:15am to 5:45pm

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 EmancipationAndrew 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 BrazilIsadora 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 1920sEmily 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)