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

The Fourth Big-H Conference will consist of panel discussions, running 20 minutes. Each presentation will be followed by a short reflections by a faculty commenter arranged by the conference organizers. Rather than a typical conference paper, we seek broad but concise overviews of dissertations-in-progress. While example, detail, and texture is of course welcome, the bulk of each presentation should focus on overall arguments and major scholarly interventions. We envision the Big-H conference as an opportunity for emerging scholars to engage a diverse audience of different methodological, geographic, and period specialties and ‘test drive’ their largest claims and interventions. Q and A will follow presentations and comments. Big-H will also include a roundtable discussion on teaching global history.  

Confirmed Presenters, Speakers, and Commentators

Presenters

• Qingfei Yin - George Washington University
• Disha Jani - Princeton University
• Deborah Wood - University of California, Berkeley
• Utathya Chattopadhyaya - University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Christopher Szabla – Cornell University
• John Chen – Columbia University
• Janira Teague – University of California, Los Angeles
• E. Kyle Romero – Vanderbilt University
• Julia Shatz - University of California, Berkeley
• Hilary Lynd - University of California, Berkeley

Outside Faculty

• Sven Beckert – Harvard University
• Sherene Seikaly – University of California, Santa Barbara
• Elizabeth McGuire – Cal State, East Bay
• Minghui Hu – University of California, Santa Cruz
• Paul Kramer – Vanderbilt University
• Heidi Tinsman – University California, Irvine

UC Berkeley Faculty

• Mary Elizabeth Berry
• Michel Laguerre
• Christine Philliou
• Mark Peterson
• James Vernon
• Brooks Jessup
• Alan Karras
• Rebecca Herman
• Daniel J. Sargent
• Brian DeLay