On Friday, April 9th and Saturday, April 10th, the Graduate Student History Association at New York University presents its first graduate student history conference titled "Solidarity: The 'Social' in Thought and Practice."
All sessions will take place in the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, New York University, New York, NY 10012.
There is no registration fee for this conference.
5:30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
William Sewell, University of Chicago
"What is 'the Social' in Social History?"
9:00 - 10:00 am COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
10:00 am - 12:00 pm SESSION ONE
Panel Title: "Working Class Solidarities: Tensions Between Work and Identity"
* Teal Rothschild, New School for Social Research, "Alliances Across Social Boundaries: An Analysis of Two Strikes in New York City, 1885-1921."
* Mark Thomas, York University, "Discourses of Solidarity and the Politics of Labour Movement Formation in Canada."
* William Kraus, West Virginia University, "Power, People, and Place: A Gramscian Analysis of Catholicism, Catholic Coal Miners, and the Fairmont Coal Field of West Virginia in the 1920s."
* Roni Gechtman, New York University, "Seeking Solidarity Across Ethnic and National Boundaries: The Polish Jewish Labor Bund and the 'National Question' Debate, 1919-1939."
1:30 - 3:00 pm SESSION TWO
Two concurrent panels
Panel Title: "Citizen Women: Organizing, Gender and the Nation"
* Stephanie Booth, University of Salford, "Nationalism and Gender in Britain and the Czech State around 1900."
* Jocelyn Olcott, Yale University, "Women's Organizing in Post-Revolutionary Mexico in the 1930s."
* Francisco M. Fuentes Millan, New York University, "Marti, Patria, and Women."
Panel Title: "The Natural Order of Society?: Biology & Theology,
Nations & Generations"
* Constantin Iordachu, Central European University, "Generational Solidarity: The 'Young Generation' in Romania between the Wars."
* Martin Nesvig, Yale University, "Mexican Visions of a 'Natural Order of the Sexes'."
* James Bjork, University of Chicago, "Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Ambivalence in Upper Silesia, 1890-1914"
3:00 - 3:30 pm COFFEE BREAK
3:30 - 5:00 pm SESSION THREE
Two concurrent panels
Panel Title: "Controlling Communities, Communal Control: Solidarity as Hegemony and Resistance"
* Peter Kalliney, University of Michigan, "The Empire's Old Clothes: Community Policing in Britain."
* Eric Marshall, University of Georgia, "Chaos and Community in Resurrection City."
* Carol Keiko Matteson, Yale University, "Severing the 'Bonds among Men': Customary Property, Community Resistance, and the French Forest Code of 1827."
Panel Title: "Theorizing Solidarity: Classic Perspectives, Current Debates"
* Mark Brilliant, Stanford University, "Constructing Solidarity: The Liberal Cosmopolitan Response to the 'Culture Wars'."
* John Savage, New York University, "Solidarity and the Law in Turn-of-the-Century France."
* John-Justin McMurtry, York University, "Solidarity and the Life-World: Reflections on Herbert Marcuse."
Please feel free to circulate this announcement.
If you have questions or need more information, contact:
Jane Rothstein, jr231@is5.nyu.edu
or
Louis Anthes, lqa9210@is2.nyu.edu
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