Participants

Stephanie Boyle, Northeastern University: Cholera, the World, and the Egyptian Delta City of Tanta

James Bradford, Northeastern University: The Flowering of an Industry: the Transformation of the Helmand Valley from a US-funded Agro-industrial project to the Largest Opium Industry in the World

Naindeep Chann, University of California, Los Angeles: Commensuration, Cooperation, and Competition: Explorations of the Medical Milieu in Early Modern South Asia

Daowen Chen, Washington University, St. Louis: Politics of Children: Political Cultural Indoctrination through Textbooks in China’s Cultural Revolution

Tom Chen, University of California, Los Angeles: Ban and ban: Censorship and Editions of Mo Yan’s The Garlic Ballads

Mei-Ying Chiang, Rutgers University, Newark: Whiteness in American Beauty Culture, Whiteness in 1930s Shanghai Women: Being “Modern and Sexy”

Sean Delaney, Northeastern University: Letters from Exile: Epistolary Discourse in Early Plymouth Colony

Joseph Fronczak, Yale University: The Popular Front: The Worldwide Circulation of Practices and the Making of a Global Movement

Stacy Fahrenthold, Northeastern University: “Do They Know Us? Will They Like Us?” Syrian-American Educators and Syria’s Image Abroad, 1924–1945

Edip Golbasi, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia: Discussing Ottoman Colonialism in the Age of Modern Colonial Empires

Ethan Hawkley, Northeastern University: Putting People in their Place: Staging Power, Ethnicity, and Conversion in Philippine Space, 1570–1605

Stefan G. Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Denmark: Transplanting ’l’esprit Chinois’ to a European administration: Henri Bertin and the correspondence with Beijing

Andrew Jarboe, Northeastern University: Empires in the First World War: When the Colony Came to the Metropole / When the Metropole Became the Colony

Vasilios Kostakis, Northeastern University: Mihaly Munkacsy

Andrew Kuech, Northeastern University: America the Imperialist, American the Benevolent: Locating US Empire in Chinese Cold War Propaganda

Jaime Lugas, Northeastern University: Forced Assimilation or Friendly Incorporation?: Americanization Efforts 1880–1920

Michelle Mann, Brandeis University: Immigration and National Identity in Third-Republican France

Colleen McCormick, Northeastern University: Mind the Gap: Building Bridges Between World History and Public History

Allyssa Metzger, Northeastern University: Paradigms and Anarchy: Producing “World Historical” Knowledge

Katherine Minahan, Northeastern University: Exhibit Script: “Pens Mightier Than Swords: Child Witnesses to Genocide in the 20th Century”

Rachel Moloshok, Northeastern University: “My affairs”: Identity, Autonomy, and Artful Subversion in the Childhood Diary of Sarah Gooll Putnam, 1860–1865

Ross Newton, Northeastern University: True Tales from the Freedom Trail: Confessions of a Part-Time Docent

G. S. Nikpour, Columbia University: Struggle and Injury: On the Origins of Human Rights in 20th Century Iran

Reynaldo Ortiz, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton: De-Jure and De-Facto Chattel-Racial Slavery, Resistance, and Capitalism During the Second Servitudes: 1791–1888

Beth Petitjean, Villanova University: We Want Our Stuff Back: A Look at Art Imperialism

Marica Piedigrossi, McMaster University, Ontario: The Delusion of Control from the “Tea Garden to the Teapot”: A Study of Late-Nineteenth Century British Tea Advertisements

Ronald Chung-yam Po, Heidelberg University: Conceptualizing the World in Eighteenth Century China

Moritz Pöllath, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena: NATO’s Foundation and Success: The Significance of Geographical and Cultural Factors

Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, Brown University: Swahili Fighting Words: Mashairi ya Kuimbana

Colin Sargent, Northeastern University: The Mantle of Tamerlane: Russia and the Russians in Punch and Parliament during the Great Game and the Cold War

Mark Seddon, University of Sheffield: State-Private Networks and the Global Control of Oil: British and US Rivalry over the Venezuelan Oil Industry, 1941–1944

Kathy Shinnick, Northeastern University: Discovering the Memory of Oak Ridge, TN’s “Secret City”

Matthew Thomas, College of William and Mary: Pacific Trade Winds: Towards a Global History of the Manila Galleon

Giovanni Venegoni, Alma Mater Studiorum University, Bologna: Pirates and other Caribbean Cultural Brokers

Victoria Waxman, Northeastern University: Gustav Mahler as a Node of Multiculturalism in the Cities of Vienna and New York

Matthew Williamson, Northeastern University: Traitors and Founders: Loyalists in American and Canadian History

Naci Yorulmaz, University of Birmingham: Brothers in Arms: Germany and the Ottoman Empire—The Historical Beginnings of the Arms Trade in the Shadow of Personal Influence (1876–1914)

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