All panels will be held in rooms 315 and 325, Shillman Hall (115 Forsyth Street)

A reception will be held at Dockser Hall Commons (50 Forsyth Street) at 6:30 on Saturday Evening

Saturday, March 12

8:15 Breakfast and Registration (325 Shillman)

9:00 Formal welcome and greeting by History Department Chair, Dr. Laura Frader

9:15–10:45 Session I

Panel 1: Correspondence, Conflict and Connection in the Early Modern World
Chair: Karin Velez (Northeastern University)
Room 315

- Naindeep Chann (UCLA) – Commensuration, Cooperation, and Competition: Explorations of the Medical Milieu in Early Modern South Asia
- Stefan Jacobsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) – Transplanting “l’esprit Chinois” to a European Administration: Henri Bertin and the Correspondence with Beijing
- Sean Delaney (Northeastern) – Letters from Exile: Epistolary Discourse in Early Plymouth Colony

Panel 2: Transmitting Culture Across Borders
Chair: Rachel Gillett (Northeastern University)
Room 325

- Vasilios Kostakis (Northeastern) – Mihally Munkacsy
- Victoria Waxman (Northeastern) – Gustav Mahler as a Node of Multiculturalism in the Cities of Vienna and New York
- Mei-Ying Chiang (Rutgers University, Newark) – Whiteness in American Beauty Culture, Whiteness in 1930s Shanghai Women: Being “Modern and Sexy”

11:00–12:30 Session II

Panel 3: Pirates, Arms and Oil: Transnational Networks Under Cover
Chair: Woodruff D. Smith (UMass-Boston)
Room 315

- Giovanni Venegoni (Alma Mater Studiorum University, Bologna) – Pirates and other Caribbean cultural brokers
- Naci Yorulmaz (University of Birmingham) – Brothers in Arms: Germany and the Ottoman Empire—The Historical Beginnings of the Arms Trade in the Shadow of Personal Influence (1876–1914)
- Mark Seddon (University of Sheffield) – State-Private Networks and the Global Control of Oil: British and US Rivalry over the Venezuelan Oil Industry, 1941–1944

Panel 4: Creating and Commemorating Collective Memory
Chair: William M. Fowler (Northeastern University)
Room 325

- Colleen McCormick (Northeastern) – Mind the Gap: Building Bridges between World History and Public History
- Ross Newton (Northeastern) – True Tales from the Freedom Trail: Confessions of a Part-Time Docent
- Matthew Williamson (Northeastern) – Traitors and Founders: Loyalists in American and Canadian History

12:30–1:30 Lunch

1:30–3:00 Session III

Panel 5: Economic Spaces Beyond the Periphery of World Systems
Chair: Prasanann Parthasarathi (Boston College)
Room 315

- Matthew Thomas (William and Mary) – Pacific Trade Winds: Towards a Global History of the Manila Galleon
- Moritz Pöllath (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany) – NATO’s Foundation and Success: The Significance of Geographical and Cultural Factors
- Reynaldo Ortiz (Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton) – De-Jure and De-Facto Chattel-Racial Slavery, Resistance, and Capitalism During the Second Servitudes: 1791–1888

Panel 6: Owning Culture, Controlling Memory: Studies in Scale
Chair: Harvey Green (Northeastern University)
Room 325

- Beth Petitjean (Villanova) – We Want Our Stuff Back: A Look at Art Imperialism
- Tom Chen (UCLA) – Ban and ban: Censorship and Editions of Mo Yan’s The Garlic Ballads
- Kathy Shinnick (Northeastern) – Discovering the Memory of Oak Ridge, TN’s “Secret City”

3:00–3:30 Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

3:30–5:00 Session IV

Film Screening: Swahili Fighting Words, Mashairi ya Kuimbana, by Mohamed Yunus Rafiq (Brown University)
Presenter and Commentator: Katherine A. Luongo (Northeastern University)
Room 315

5:15–6:30 Keynote Address: “Redefining World History,” by Peter Gran (Temple University)
Room 105 Shillman

6:30 Reception (Dockser Hall)
Sunday March 13

8:30 Breakfast (325 Shillman)

9:15–10:45 Session V

Panel 7: Children in World History
Chair: TBA
Room 315

- Daowen Chen (Washington University, St. Louis) – Politics of Children: Political Cultural Indoctrination through textbooks in China’s Cultural Revolution
- Rachel Moloshok (Northeastern) – “My affairs”: Identity, Autonomy, and Artful Subversion in the Childhood Diary of Sarah Gooll Putnam, 1860–1865
- Katherine Minahan (Northeastern) – Exhibit Script: “Pens Mightier Than Swords: Child Witnesses to Genocide in the 20th Century”

Panel 8: National Identity in World Migration
Chair: Christoph Strobel (UMass-Lowell)
Room 325

- Michelle Mann (Brandeis) – Immigration and National Identity in Third-Republican France
- Jaime Lugas (Northeastern) – Forced Assimilation or Friendly Incorporation?: Americanization Efforts 1880–1920
- Stacy Fahrenthold (Northeastern) – “Do They Know Us? Will They Like Us?” Syrian-American Educators and Syria’s Image Abroad, 1924–1945

11:00–12:30 Session VI

Panel 9: Comparative Empires
Chair: Jeremy Prestholdt (UC-San Diego)
Room 315

- Colin Sargent (Northeastern) – The Mantle of Tamerlane: Russia and the Russians in Punch and Parliament during the Great Game and the Cold War
- Marica Piedigrossi (McMaster University) – The Delusion of Control from the “Tea Garden to the Teapot”: A Study of Late-Nineteenth Century British Tea Advertisements
- Edip Golbasi (Simon Frasier University, British Columbia) – Discussing Ottoman Colonialism in the Age of Modern Colonial Empires
- Ethan Hawkley (Northeastern) – Staging Empire in the Philippines: Representing the World in Local Space

Panel 10: Engaging World History Methodologies: The Macro-Micro Paradigm
Chair: Peter Gran (Temple University)
Room 325

- Andrew Kuech (Northeastern) – America the Imperialist, American the Benevolent: Locating US Empire in Chinese Cold War Propaganda
- James Bradford (Northeastern) – The Flowering of an Industry: the Transformation of the Helmand Valley from a US-funded Agro-industrial project to the Largest Opium Industry in the World
- Stephanie Boyle (Northeastern) – Cholera, the World, and the Egyptian Delta City of Tanta
- Andrew Jarboe (Northeastern) – Empires in the First World War: When the Colony Came to the Metropole/When the Metropole Became the Colony

12:30–1:30 Lunch

1:30–3:30 Session VII

Roundtable: Paradigms and Anarchy: Producing “World Historical” Knowledge
Chair: Gerald Herman
Room 315

- Allyssa Metzger (Northeastern) – Producing Knowledge in Light of World History
- Ronald Chung-yam Po (Heidelberg University) – Conceptualizing the World in Eighteenth Century China
- Joseph Fronczak (Yale) – The Popular Front: The Worldwide Circulation of Practices and the Making of a Global Movement
- Golnar Nikpour (Columbia) – Struggle and Injury: On the Origins of Human Rights in 20th Century Iran