#  Warren Center Symposium on Global American Studies 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 11, 2014** 

 08:30AM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room**  



 

 



 

**For the schedule and a full listing of speakers and topics, please visit the [History Department website](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/warren-center-symposium-global-american-studies).**

### "Corporate Empire: Fordism and the Making of Immigrant Detroit"

**Saima Akhtar,** *Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, Art Histories.*

### "'Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans': The Transnational and Colonial History of the US Welfare State"

**Emma Amador,** *History Department*, *University of Michigan.*

### "From 'Alien Labor' to 'Temporary Alien' Employees: Migrant Rights at Work across Regulatory Regimes in the United States (1942-2011)"

**Gabrielle Clark,** *Law, Justice, and Criminology Department, *American University.**

### "The Enigma of Intellectual Production and Transmission in Global Capitalism: Explaining the Worldwide Sitdown Strike Movement of 1936"

**Joseph Fronczak,** *Mahindra Humanities Center, *Harvard University,**

### "Stitching the Seams of Afro-Latina/o Political Identities across American, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Divides"

**Jose Fuste,** *Department of Ethnic Studies, *UC San Diego.**

### "Debt and Difference: the Politics of Agriculture in the United States, Egypt and India in an Age of Global Crisis"

**Samantha Iyer,** *Warren Center, *Harvard University.**

### "The US Army and Colonial Military Labor in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913"

**Justin Jackson,** *Draper Program, *New York University.**

### "'Sympathies as Broad as the Universe': Globalizing Black Antislavery after Emancipation"

**Justin Leroy,** *Warren Center, *Harvard University.**

### "Black Sea, Black Atlantic: From Frederick Douglass to Leo Tolstoy, Images of the Caucasus in the Wake of the Civil and Caucasian Wars"

**Sarah Lewis,** *Hutchins Center, *Harvard University.**

### "Philippine Disorders in the Able-Bodied Empire"

**Allan Lumba,** *Warren Center, *Harvard University.**

### "Mobilizing 'Free Asians': Asian American Soldiering through the Decolonizing Pacific"

**Simeon Man,** *American Studies and Ethnicity, *University of Southern California.**

### "The Feminist Subject at War: Logics of Racialization in US Humanitarian Imperialism"

**Elizabeth Mesok,** *Warren Center, *Harvard University.**

### "'The Greatest Nation on Earth': The Politics and Patriotism of the First Anglo-American Immigrants to Mexican Texas"

**Sarah Rodriguez,** *History Department, *University of Pennsylvania.**

### "Nowhere to Hide: International Fugitives and American Power"

**Katherine Unterman,** *History Department, *Texas A&M.**



 

 



 

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