Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Comparative Perspective

Graduate Student Conference

Department of History
The Ohio State University
19th April 2013
168 Dulles Hall

Spaniards encounter Americans in the New World.

8:15am: Breakfast & Opening Remarks

8:30am-10:15am

Panel One: Fluid Communities: Negotiating Religion, Politics, and Warfare in the Early Americas

Chair: Robin Judd

  • Jonathon Romaneski, "Religion of Rebellion: The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment in Lexington and Concord, 1740-1775"
  • Dani Anthony, "'They deserve to be harshly punished': Ethnicity and Governance in 16th-century Peru"
  • Timothy Leech, "'A Constitutional Army': The Massachusetts Provincial Congress and the Decision to Establish the Continental Army"

Discussant: Cameron Jones

10:15am-10:30am: Coffee break

10:30am-12:00pm

Panel Two: Fragile Contacts Across Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Politics and Humanitarianism

Chair: Stephanie Smith

  • Sara Halpern, "Guardians of Humanity?: The Joint Distribution Committee's Bargain with the International Refugee Organization over Jewish Refugees in Shanghai"
  • Andrew Skabelund, "Tightropes and Balance Beams: U.S. Foreign Policy towards French North and West Africa in the 1950s"
  • Hideaki Kami, "Between Diplomacy and Human Migration: Jimmy Carter's Policy toward Cuba and Origins of the Mariel Refugee Crisis"

Discussant: Timothy Leech

12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch

1:00pm-2:30pm

Panel Three: Contested Ideas of Ethnicity and Nation: Views from the Local Level

Chair: Margaret Newell

Cameron Shriver, "The Northwestern Confederacy:  Local Life and Federal Politics in a Native Region, 1788-1795"

  • Jessica Wallace, "Creating a Wartime Community:  Fort Loudoun's Overhill Cherokees and British Colonists during the Seven Years War"
  • Reyna Esquivel-King, "A New Hero: Examining Representations of Urbanization and Modernization in Atuad del Vampiro (1953)"
  • Megan Uhrig, "The Andean Exception: Indigenous Social Movements in Peru"

Discussant: Nick Crane

2:30pm-2:45pm: Coffee break

2:45pm-4:15pm

Panel Four: Changing Ideas of Race Across the Atlantic

Chair: Theodora Dragostinova

  • Jim Harris, "The Interconnection of Race and Nationality in the Interwar Anthropology of Sir Arthur Keith"
  • Sandy Bolzenius, "The Trouble with Black Wacs: Gender, Race, and Military Discipline during World War II"
  • Leticia Wiggins, "Institutionalizing Activism, Deconstructing Borderlands: La Raza in the Midwest, 1970-1978"

Discussant: Mark Boonshoft

4:15pm: Closing remarks