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Big-H Program and Papers

All events to take place in 3335 Dwinelle Hall on the Berkeley campus unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, March 3

 

Special Session: Kristin Hoganson, “Taking a Spatial Turn to the Heartland Myth: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1850–1900,”  4-6pm, 223 Moses Hall

 

Friday, March 4

 

11am: Welcome


11:15am: Panel 1: Forces of Integration. Chair: Carlos Noreña

  • Matthew Sargent (Berkeley), “Corporate Science: Cross-Cultural Information Exchanges under the Dutch East India Company.” Commentator: Brian DeLay
  • Shanon Fitzpatrick (Irvine), "Mediating Global Encounters: Physical Culture and Macfadden Publications' Pulp Empire, 1899-WWI."  Commentator: Kristin Hoganson

1pm: Catered lunch

 

2pm: Special Session on Publication in International History. Chair: Daniel Sargent

Susan Ferber, James Sheehan, and Emily Rosenberg

 

3:30pm: Coffee break

 

4pm: Panel 2: Containment of Integration. Chair: Jan de Vries

  • Stephen Gross (Berkeley), "Economic Pioneers or Missionaries of the Third Reich?: Cultural Diplomacy and Professional Exchange in Southeastern Europe, 1933-1939." Commentator: Emily Rosenberg
  • Vanessa Ogle (Harvard), “When Nationalists of all Countries United: France, Time Reform, and the Politics of Internationalism During the Age of Global Comparison, 1884-1920.” Commentator: Tom Laqueur (Paper to be distributed privately, not through this website)
  • Peter Thilly (Northwestern), "Smuggling and the Chinese Maritime Customs in Fujian, 1861-1876." Commentator: Alex Cook

Saturday, March 5

 

9am: Coffee

 

10am: Panel 3: Expertise and Integration. Chair: Richard Cándida Smith

  • Grace Leslie (Yale), "Writing a 'Truly International' History: Internationalism, the Cold War, and the UNESCO History of Mankind Project, 1954-1956." Commentator: David A. Hollinger
  • Kelly Peterman (Virginia), “Elite Networks and Interdependence in the 1970s.” Commentator: Daniel Sargent
  • Samantha Iyer (Berkeley), “A History of Demographic Thought: Late Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Development Narratives.” Commentator: Nils Gilman

12pm: Catered lunch

 

1pm: Panel 4: Power and Integration. Chair: John Connelly

  • Patrick Sharma (UCLA), "The Origins of World Bank Structural Adjustment Lending." Commentator: Daniel Sargent
  • Patrick Kelly (Chicago), "Transnational Human Rights Activism in the Southern Cone in the 1970s." Commentator: Richard Cándida Smith
  • Stephen Wertheim (Columbia), "Globalization Takes Power: The Rise of Humanitarian Interventionism in Post-Cold War America."  Commentator: Erez Manela

3pm: Coffee break

 

3:30pm: Plenary Panel. Chair: David A. Hollinger

Speakers: Brian DeLay, Erez Manela, Emily Rosenberg, James Vernon

 

Reception to follow.