The 11th Graduate Student Conference on International History

Date and Time

March 11, 2011
10:00AM - 06:00PM EST

"Mobilities, Flows and Networks in Global History"

For more information please consult the conference website http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/ . The conference is free and open to the public, and online registration is now open.

Thursday, March 10

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm Welcome remarks

1:45 pm – 3:45 pmPanel 1: Revolutionary News

  • Octavie Bellavance (Yale University): Transcontinental Networks and the Russian Émigré Press, 1856-63
  • Francesco Morriello (McMaster University): The Flow of Revolutionary News: An Analysis of Communication Networks between St. Domingue and Martinique
  • Denis Clark (Oxford University): A 'Coarse Crew' finds its voice: the Polish National Committee’s Quest to Liberate Poland

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Panel 2: Aesthetics of the Global

  • Galia Duchin Arieli (Hebrew University): The Reflection of the Global, the Local and the Personal in Israeli Art: Music, Poetry and Visual Art
  • Husni Abu Bakar (University of California, Riverside): The Sailing Sultan: Navigating the River in an 18th century Malay Text
  • Meha Priyadarshini (Columbia University): China in Mexico: Trade, Artisanal Practice and the Creation of New Tastes in the Early Modern World

Friday, March 11

10:00 am – 12:00 pmPanel 3: Quartermasters without Borders

  • Rodolfo Fernandez-Martinez (Georgetown University): Revolution and Global Capitalism in Northeastern Mexico
  • Masato Hasegawa (Yale University): Supplying a War in a Borderland: China’s War in Korea and the Procurement of Provisions across the Yalu River, 1592-1593
  • Giovanni Venegoni (Università Alma Mater Studiorum): Networks in Borderlands. Saint-Domingue and the Caribbean: A Case Study

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Panel 4: Ideologies on the Move

  • Philip Fileri (Harvard University): The End of History and the Idea of Europe: The French Reception of Fukuyama’s Work in 1989
  • Marc Herman (University of Pennsylvania): Human Law in Divine Hands: A Provencal Rabbinic Response to Northern French Law
  • Julia Teresa McClure (University of Sheffield): Franciscan "Translocality"and the Discourse of the New World

4:15 pm – 6:00 pmPlenary Session and Discussion

  • Charles Maier (Harvard University)
  • Erez Manela (Harvard University)
  • Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh)
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