BIG-H 2013

Berkeley International and Global History Conference

Second Berkeley International and Global History (Big-H) Graduate Student Conference: Actors and Agency in the International Past

March 15-16, 2013
3335 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley

In recent years, historians have offered new kinds of stories about the past to describe and explain processes that transcend nation-state boundaries. These efforts challenge us to reconsider our understandings of responsibility and power in history and in particular, who and what can effect change.  This graduate student  conference will consider the transnational histories and agency of non-state actors—such as people, ideas, cultures, environments, businesses, commodities, institutions-–as well as their encounters, collaboration, and conflict with state actors.

For additional information, please contact the conference organizers at bighist@gmail.com

Confirmed speakers and commentators:

From Outside Institutions

From UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Presenters

Second Big-H Conference Program (2013)

All events to take place in 3335 Dwinelle Hall on the Berkeley campus unless otherwise noted.

Friday, March 15

10 am: Panel 1: Trade, Power, and Resources in the Era of 19th Century Globalization. Chair: Jan deVries

12pm: Catered lunch

2pm: Special Session on Transnational Methodologies. Chair: James Vernon

Kenneth Pomeranz, Manu Goswami, Sam White

3:30pm: Coffee break

4pm: Panel 2: Non-State Actors in the Making of National Policies in the 20th Century. Chair: Mark Brilliant

6:30pm: Keynote Address by Tom Laqueur and Dinner. David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way.

Saturday, March 16

9am: Coffee

10am: Panel 3: Non-State Actors in the Making of National States in the 20th Century. Chair: Brian Delay

12pm: Catered lunch

1pm: Panel 4: Networks, Commodities, and Identity in the Era of Late-20th Century Globalization. Chair: James Vernon

3pm: Coffee break

3:30pm: Plenary Panel. Chair: Daniel Sargent

Jerry Davila and Emily Rosenberg

Please note that conference attendees are welcome at all panels and on-campus catered meals. Pre-registration is required for the banquet.