Northeastern University Graduate Student Conference Schedule
“Out of Bounds: Exploring Global Connections”
All events will take place in the Curry Student Center
Saturday March 21
8:15- Breakfast and Registration (Room 448)
9:00- Formal welcome and greeting by History Dept. Chair, Dr. Laura Frader (Room 444)
9:15-10:45- Session I
Lands and Bounds (Room 444)
Dr. Laura Frader (chair)
Panelists:
James Bradford (Northeastern University)- “Pashtuns, Drugs and the Durand Line”
John Legrid (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)- “The Creation of Space and the Contestation of Place in Colonial New England and the Chesapeake”
Deborah Naybor (University of Buffalo)- “Gendered Lands: Restrictions of Women’s Land Rights”
11:00- 12:30- Session II
Expanding Archives and Sources (Room 442)
Dr. Harvey Green (chair)
Panelists:
Andrew Hatt (Northeastern University)- “Rethinking Colonialism and Caribbean Immigration: Material Culture and the Spanish-American War”
Sandra Zito (University of California, Irvine)- “Eclectic Eyes: Experimental Architectural Practices Look at the Spaces of Global Capitalism in Europe”
Tamara Mann (Columbia University)- “Cultural Property and the Iraq- Jewish Archives”
East-West Encounters (Room 448)
Dr. Christina Gilmartin (chair)
Panelists:
Hu Lih-Sin (Edinburgh University)- “East West Encounters: Emily Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson”
Melinda Wilson (Texas A&M University)- “Buddhism in Transformation: Houston and Beijing”
Colin Sargent (Northeastern University)- “British Gentlemen and the Opium Opportunity”
12:30- Lunch (Room 444)
1:30- 3:00- Session III
That Old Antiquated ‘Self Other’ Dialectic (Room 442)
Dr. Harlow Robinson (chair)
Panelists:
Donald Taylor (Eastern Illinois University)- “(Re)Constructing Community: Jewish Life in the Wake of 1096”
Chad Cussen (Eastern Illinois University)- “Fractured Fraternity: Altérité and the FLN”
Jeff Cutright (Eastern Illinois University)- “Do You Speak Russian?: Russification and Ukraine in the Soviet Era”
World War and Transnational Developments (Room 448)
Dr. Jeremy Neill (chair)
Panelists:
Andrew Jarboe (Northeastern University)- “Race, Manhood,
and the Troglodyte World: Senegalese Tirailleurs and the Creation of
Trench Culture”
Rachel Gillet (Northeastern University)- “Blaise Diagne and Concepts of ‘Double Victory’ in Black Atlantic Perspective”
Donald Eberle (Bowling Green State University)- “Conscription Policies in the United States and Canada and the Attitude of Military Officers towards Conscientious Objectors during the First World War”
3:00-3:30 – Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break (Room 444)
3:30-5:00- Sessions IV
Textbook Imperfect: Eurocentrism, Orientalism, and the Global Identity (Room 442)
Dr. Tiffany Trimmer (chair)
Panelists:
Gary Cirelli (Bowling Green State University)- “”When Expectations are too High: The ‘Orientalism Dilemma’ and Russia’s place in the Composition of Textbooks”
Elizabeth Dutridge (Bowling Green State University)- “Textbooks and Global Memory: Historical Revisionism and the Textbook Controversy in Japan”
Jeremy Huffer (Bowling Green State University)- “Global Disconnections? The Story of Global Exchange between the West and the Rest in U.S. World History Textbooks”
The Atlantic World (Room 448)
Dr. Anna Suranyi (Chair)
Panelists:
Ross Newton (Northeastern University)- “Christ Church and its Atlantic Benefactors: Patronage and Access to Power”
Matthew Williams (SUNY, Binghamton)- “The New York-London Voyages of Francis Goelet: Social Mobility and Economic Declension in the Atlantic World ”
Sean Delaney (Northeastern University)- “Imagining a Transatlantic Community: Roger Williams and the London press”
Angela Sutton (Vanderbilt University)- “Piracy and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
5:15- 6:30- Keynote Speaker: John Thornton- “Wrestling with World History from a Non-Western Perspective” (McCloud Suites- Third Floor)
6:30- Reception (Room 444)
Sunday March 22
8:30- Breakfast (Room 444)
9:15-10:45- Session V
The Challenge of Border Crossings: Transnational Cooperation in the Inter-war Period (Room 442)
Dr. Ines Prodohl (chair)
Panelists:
Cornelia Knab (University of Heidelberg)- “Dangerous Animals- International Cooperation Efforts against Animal Diseases in the Interwar Years”
Christiane Sibille (University of Heidelberg)- “Global Sounds: Music as part of International Intellectual Cooperation in the Interwar Period”
Maya Okuda (University of Heidelberg)- “Japan and the League of Nations: Intellectual Networks in the Interwar Period”
Violence in a Global Community (Room 448)
M. Chloe Mulderig (Chair)
Panelists:
Neysa King (Northeastern University)- “Realizing Irish Reform: State-Sponsored Development and the Targeting of Civilian Populations”
M. Chloe Mulderig (Boston University)- “Mara Salvatrucha as the World’s Most Dangerous: American Deportation Policy and the Spread of Transnational Violence”
Erin Anderson (Boston University)- “The Hand that Feeds: The Militarization of International Aid in Modern Afghanistan”
John Stevenson (University of Chicago)- “Everywhere Strangers: When and Why Do Refugees Join Insurgencies? The Politics of the Rwandan Tutsi Great Lake Diaspora, 1959-1990”
11:00- 12:30- Session VI
Roundtable- 1968 and the World (Room 444)
Dr. Timothy Brown (chair)
Panelists:
Satya Som (Northeastern University)- “Conservative Sexuality and the ‘50s in a Global Perspective”
Burleigh Hendrickson (Northeastern University)- “Decolonizing ‘1968’: Francophone Protest from Paris to Dakar”
Joe Faykosh (Bowling Green State University)- “A Culture of Rioting: A Generational Response to Global Student Protests of the 1960s and 1970s”
Samantha Christiansen (Northeastern University)- “Signs and Scenes: Transnational Connections in the Global 1968”
Zachary Scarlett (Northeastern University)- “Performing the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Youth and Semiotic Codes in the Global 1960s”
12:30- Wrap-up discussion (Room 444)
