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“Power, Place and People: The Local and the Global” Schedule of
Events
Saturday, March 18
8:00am: Breakfast and Registration
8:45am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00-10:30am: Session 1
Panel 1: “Imperial Manifestations: Cultural Constructions in the Age of
Empire,” West Village H 108.
Chair: Heather Streets-Salter
• Dave De Camp (NEU): “Animals of Empire, Animals in Empire:
Poster Publicity and the Empire Marketing Board, 1926-1933”
• Luke Scalone (NEU): “Pacific Horizons: The Transformation of
European Perceptions of Paradise, 1880-1900”
• Andreas Greiner (ETH Zurich): “Shaping Colonial Policies from the
Margins. Disobedient Porters, Zebra Breeding, and Railways in
German East Africa”
10:45am – 12:15pm: Session 2
Panel 2: “Enforcing Rights and Ownership in the American City,” West
Village H 108.
Chair: Nick Brown
• James Robinson (NEU): “Neighborhoods and Big Sports Capitalism,
Urban Sports, and Social Change (For Better or For Worse)”
• John Marsland (University at Buffalo, SUNY): “Squatting: The
Struggle for Decent Housing, 1968-1985”
• Lindsey Waldenberg (Texas State University): “Life in HACA’s
“Ghetto”: The Impacts of Segregation and Racism on AfricanAmerican Public Housing in Austin, Texas, 1928–1975”
• Eric Morgenson: (University at Albany, SUNY) “The Last Step to
Whiteness: Liberal Jews, Black Power, and the Collapse of the Civil
Rights Coalition”
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Panel 3: “Identity, Tolerance, and Internationalism in the Twentieth
Century,” West Village H 110.
Chair: Michele Louro
• William Whitworth (NEU): “East Germans before West Africans:
Declining Enthusiasm for Internationalism in East Germany, 19751989”
• Allison Chapin (NEU): “International Solidarity? The British TUC
and Refugees from Nazi Germany, 1933-1939”
• David Helps (University of Toronto – St. George): “Imagining the
Global Neighbourhood: The Populist Internationalism of America’s
Town Meeting of the Air, 1942-50”
12:15-1:45pm: Lunch
1:45-3:15pm: Session 3
Panel 4: “Religious Identity and Social Change in Cosmopolitan Societies,”
West Village H 108.
Chair: Maryanne Rhett
• Laura Auketayeva (University at Albany, SUNY): “Refuseniks: The
Role of Jewish Identity and Gender”
• Dima Hurlbut (Boston University): “Making Sense of Religious
Change in Postcolonial Africa: Conversion to Mormonism in
Southeastern Nigeria”
• Matt Bowser (NEU): “'I Do Not Want to See Them in This Country:'
Nationalist Agitation and the Colonial Roots of Muslim Persecution
in Burma”
Panel 5: “Managing Change in an Age of Movement,” West Village H 110.
Chair: Robert Cross
• Adam McNeil (Simmons College): “Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
and the Masculine Ideas about African American Watermen in the
Age of Revolution”
• Christian Berker (Darmstadt University of Technology): “The
Geopolitical Context for Institutional Change: The Case of Prussia in
the 17th and 18th Century”
• Richard Taylor (St. John’s University): “Migration’s Impact on the
Policing of New Amsterdam and Early New York City”
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3:15-4:45pm: Session 4
Panel 6: “Private Stories, Public Spaces: Panel and Roundtable on Public
History,” West Village H 108.
Chair: Marty Blatt
• Beka Bryer (NEU): ““No great desire to communicate ever dies”:
Anna Deavere Smith as Public Historian”
• Jessica Muttitt (NEU): “The Impact of Original Furnishings on the
Visitor Experience in Historic House Museums”
4:50-6:00pm: Keynote Address, West Village H 108.
“Echoes of Adwa: Memory, the Nation-State, and the World
Historian”, Trevor Getz, Professor of History and Department
Chair, San Francisco State University
6:00-7:30pm: Reception, 440 Egan Hall
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Sunday, March 19
8:15-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00-10:30am: Session 5
Panel 7: “Global Currents, Local Changes,” West Village H 108.
Chair: Trevor Getz
• Adisa Morenikeji (BIGASA): “Colonization and Changing Gender
Relations: Contesting Marriage, Divorce and Marital Infidelity in
Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria 1914-1960"
• Christian Ruth (University at Albany, SUNY): ““Who is this Reagan?
He Ought to be Promoted!”: Local Responses to Humanitarian Relief
in the Horn of Africa”
• Trishula Patel (Georgetown University): “’The Gist of the [Game] is
Played Out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary’: The History of an
Indian Cricket Team in Africa”
10:45am-12:15pm: Session 6
Panel 8: “Deconstructing Gender, Health, and Society,” West Village H 108.
Chair: Jackie Gronau
• Bridget Keown (NEU): “’She was sure she was in Hell’, Women and
War Trauma during the First World War”
• Sacha Mankins (Simmons College): “An International Sisterhood:
American Jewish Women’s Organizations in the Early 1920s”
• Simon Purdue (NEU): “Danger on the Docks: Belfast’s Male Workers
and Occupational Health, 1870-1914”
12:15-1:30 Lunch and Closing Remarks, Room 102