Berkeley International and Global History Conference

The Contingency of Transmission

Fourth Berkeley International and Global History (Big-H) Graduate Student Conference

September 22-23, 2017
3335 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley

Conference Program

Friday, September 22

9:00AM: Coffee, Tea, and Pastries

10:00AM: Opening Remarks: Anthony Gregory (UC Berkeley)

10:10AM - 12:00PM: Panel 1 - Transnational Solidarity

• Chair: Varsha Venkatasubramanian (UC Berkeley)
• Kyle Romero (Vanderbilt), “Refugee Politics, Foreign Aid, and the Emergence of American Humanitarianism.” Commenter: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley)
• Disha Karnad Jani (Princeton), “The Interwar League against Imperialism.” Commenter: Daniel Sargent (UC Berkeley)
• Utathya Chattopadhyaya (University of Illinois), “Migration, Co-operation and the Politics of Ganja: The Global Iterations of an Asian Intoxicant, 1840-1940.” Commenter: Sven Beckert (Harvard University)

12:00PM - 1:20PM: Catered Lunch for Participants

1:30 to 3:10: Special Panel - Teaching Global History

• Daniel Sargent (UC Berkeley), Alan Karras (UC Berkeley), Heidi Tinsman (UC Irvine)

3:10PM-3:40PM: Refreshment Break

3:40PM-5:30PM: Panel 2: Governance and Humanity

• Chair: James Lin (University of Washington)
• Christopher Szlaba (Cornell), “Colonialism, Technocracy, and International Law in the Struggle for Global Migration Governance.” Commenter: James Vernon (UC Berkeley)
• Julia Shatz (Berkeley), “The ‘Glocalization’ of Governance: Child Welfare in Interwar Palestine.” Commenter: Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara)

5:40PM-6:30PM: Break, Walk to Faculty Club

6:30PM-9:30PM: Banquet at the Faculty Club (invitation only)

• Keynote Address: Mary Elizabeth Berry (UC Berkeley)

Saturday, September 23

9:00AM: Coffee, Tea, and Pastries

10:00AM: Opening Remarks

10:10AM-12:10PM: Panel 3 - International Ideology

• Chair: Joseph Ledford (UC Berkeley)
• Hilary Lynd (UC Berkeley), "Living Together, Living Apart: The Soviet Ethnoterrorial Federation in Apartheid’s Mirror" Commenter: Elizabeth McGuire (Cal State University, East Bay)
• Qingfei Yin (George Washington University), “Confronting the Communist State: The Chinese-Vietnamese Land-Maritime Border during the Cold War, 1949-1979,” Commenter: Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt)
• John Chen (Columbia), “Islamic Modernism in China: Chinese Muslim Elites, Guomindang Nation-Building, and the Limits of the Global Umma, 1900-1960.” Commenter: Brooks Jessup (UC Berkeley)

12:10PM - 1:20PM: Catered Lunch for Participants

1:20PM - 2:40PM: Panel 4 - Identity beyond Borders

• Chair: Anthony Gregory (UC Berkeley)
• Deborah Wood (UC Berkeley), “Cultivating Christianity in China: Representations of Math, Religion, and the State over the 17 th -Century Jesuit Mission to China.” Commenter: Minghui Hu (UC Santa Cruz)
• Janira Teague (UCLA), “I, Too, Am America: African American and Afro- Caribbean Identity,” Commenter: Michel Laguerre (UC Berkeley)

2:40PM - 3:00PM: Refreshment Break

3:10PM - 4:50PM: Plenary Panel - Global History in an Anti-Globalization Age

• Brian DeLay (Chair), Rebecca Herman (UC Berkeley), Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt), Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara)

Please send any questions or comments to: bighist@berkeley.edu