#  Harvard Graduate Student Conference: Sources in International History 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 14, 2014** 

 12:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S030**  



 

 



 

**For up-to-date conference schedule and registration, please visit the CON-IH 14 [website](http://con-ih.com/).**

Registration is now open for the Fourteenth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH). The theme of the 2014 symposium is Sources in International History. What types of innovative and traditional sources do historians use to write international history, and what challenges do they encounter in selecting, locating, and deploying these sources? Join us for a day of conversation about the evidence the next generation of scholars uses to make claims about a field of inquiry as spatially and temporally ambitious as international history. Professor Francis Gavin from MIT will conclude Con-IH 14 by delivering the keynote address at a Harvard Faculty Club drinks reception.

## Lunch & Welcome

12:00–1:00PM  
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S030

## Panel A: Political Sources Reimagined

1:00–2:45PM  
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S030

### Moderator:

**Philippa Hetherington,** PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

### Speakers:

"Between an International and a Domestic Reading of Peace Agreements: The Treaty of Munster (1648)"  
**Bram De Ridder,** *Graduate Student, University of Leuven.*

"Maurits Hymans: Immigrant, Agent, and Inspector"   
**Alexander Noonan,** *PhD Candidate, History Department, Boston College.*

"My Dear Premier: Nehru's Letters to Chief Ministers"   
**Swapna Kona Nayudu,** *PhD Candidate, King's College, London.*

"Universal Connector: Konrad Wachsmann and Machine-Age Building from the Weimar Republic to America's Cold War"   
**Liat Spiro,** *Graduate Student, Department of History, Harvard University*.

## Panel B: Cultural Objects & Media

3:15–5:00PM  
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S030

### Moderator:

**Daniel Lord Smail,** *Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University*.

### Speakers:

"A ‘Novel’ Lens: Using Literature to Write a History of the Global through the Local"   
**Sana Tannoury Karam,** *PhD Candidate, History Department,* *Northeastern University*.

"The Art of Decolonization: Cultural History Sources and International History"  
**Andrew Bellisari,** *Graduate Student Affiliate.* PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

"The Met’s *Punk: Chaos to Couture* Exhibit Guide: Undoing Johnny Rotten’s Representation of Punk Culture"   
**Samantha A. Smith,** *Graduate Student, Department of History,* *Loyola University*.

"Dr. Strangetweet or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media as an Academic Resource"  
**Jason G. Warren,** *PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Kentucky.*

### Keynote Address & Drinks Reception

5:30–7:00PM  
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street

### Keynote Speaker:

**Francis J. Gavin,** *Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies; Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.*



 

 



 

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