BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Global American Studies Symposium PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1169761_0 SUMMARY:Global American Studies Symposium DESCRIPTION:

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)

LOCATION:Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20171201T131500Z DTEND:20171201T224500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR