The Intersection of Diaspora, Immigration and Gender In World History

Fall Program:

Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota, “Gendered Transitions in International Migration.” October 15, 2010

Kwasi Konadu, City University of New York, “Diaspora, Africa, and the Akan Optic: The Akan in the British Caribbean.” October 22, 2010

Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley, “The Hong Kong Project”: A History of Chinese International Adoption in the United States.” November 12, 2010

Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine, “Finding Charity Folks:  Public Memory and the Reconstruction of an Enslaved Biography.” November 19, 2010

Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh, “Rethinking the Amistad Rebellion.” December 3, 2010

Spring Program:  

April 1: Special session on Latin American Jewry 

• Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas, El Paso
• Judti Bokser Liwerant, Universidad Naiconal Autónoma de México
• Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
   

April 15: Roxana Galusca

April 22: Greg Smithers

April 29: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney

May 6: Yuh Ji-Yeon, Northwestern University, Korean Diaspora

Senior Faculty Fellow: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney, Chileans in Cold War Germany
Junior Faculty Fellow: Gregory D. Smithers, Cherokee Diaspora, 1820s-1930s
Dissertation Fellow: Roxana Galusca, “The Politics of Anti-Sex Trafficking Humanitarianism in the U.S.: From Neoliberal Compassion to Women’s Rights.”