Thirteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History

Thirteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History

Veranstalter
The Transatlantic History Student Organization (THSO) in collaboration with Phi Alpha Theta, the Barksdale Lecture Series, the History Department, Student Congress, and the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Texas at Arlington
Veranstaltungsort
University of Texas at Arlington
Ort
Arlington, Texas
Land
United States
Vom - Bis
25.10.2012 -
Website
Von
Isabelle Rispler

Transatlantic history, as defined by the Transatlantic PhD program at the University of Texas at Arlington, pertains to the interactions of people, goods, and ideas between any of the four continents surrounding the Atlantic basin between the time of the European “discovery” of the Americas in the 1500s and the present day. Situated primarily in the fields of both social and cultural history, its approaches are transnational and comparative in scope. Rejecting the conceptualization of cultural transmission as a one-way imposition, transatlantic scholars examine the reciprocity of cultural exchange through intercultural transfer. By taking a transnational and problem-oriented approach, scholars are able to look beyond and below the state-nations, focusing instead on the qualities of individual communities or individuals. While transatlantic history shares the geographic focus of Atlantic history, it seeks to move beyond the temporal and analytical limitations established by the fields of colonial/imperial and national history.

Programm

8:30-10:00am, Diaspora and Migration (University Hall 360)
Commentator: Dr. Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington

- Emily J. Lemus, East Carolina University: “Fleeing the Holocaust: Jewish Migration to El Salvador, 1942-1945”

- Amber Nickell, University of Northern Colorado: “Establishing ‘Roots’: The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1968-1978”

- Saundrie Shaw, University of the West Indies, Jamaica: “From Indentureship to Entrepreneurship and Creolization: The Chinese in Jamaica Post-1900”

8:30-10:00am, A Trans-Imperial, Inter-Imperial Atlantic (University Hall 334)
Commentator: Dr. Thomas Adam, University of Texas at Arlington

- Bryan Garrett, University of Texas at Arlington: “’Sick Man of Europe’: Disease, Declension, Gender, and Empire in Relational Perspective ”

- Danielle Porter Sanchez, University of Texas at Austin: “Legitimacy, Imperialism, and the Establishment of the Free French Forces in Brazzaville”

- Jan Hansen, Humboldt University, Germany: “Anti-American?: German Social Democrats, Ronald Reagan, and NATO's dual-track decision, 1979-83” (presentation in German)

10:00-11:30am, North-South Transatlantic Connections (University Hall 360)
Commentator: Dr. Stanley Palmer, University of Texas at Arlington

- Isabelle Rispler, University of Texas at Arlington/Université Paris Diderot: “A Colony like Another? Writing a Connected History of German Southwest Africa in the South Atlantic”

- John Garratt, George Washington University: “Kulturkampf in Lomé: German and Ewe Identification and Alienation in Togoland, West Africa, 1884-1914”

- Roberto Saba, University of Pennsylvania: “Seeking Refuge under the Southern Cross: Causes of Confederate Emigration to the Empire of Brazil”

1:00-2:40pm, Transatlantic Commodities and Consumption (Nedderman Hall 604)
Commentator: Dr. Christina Salinas, University of Texas at Arlington

- Kristen Burton, University of Texas at Arlington: "‘Spirits and Strong Waters’: Perceptions of Drunkenness in the North Atlantic, 1650-1775"

- Bradley Borougerdi, University of Texas at Arlington: “What is Hemp?: Meaning and Positionality in an Atlantic Context”

- Casey Schmitt, College of William and Mary: “Consuming Contraband: British American Wheat and the Formation of the Spanish Caribbean”

- Paola Figueroa, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina: “Eating Habits in Mendoza, Argentina: Sociability and Cultural Blending” (presentation in Spanish)

3:00-4:30pm, Incorporating Atlantic History into a Transatlantic Field (Nedderman Hall 604)
Commentator: Dr. John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington

- Julia McClure, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom: “Making Waves on the Historicized Atlantic”

- Chloe Northrop, University of North Texas: “‘How ignorant and supercilious’: Female Education in Jamaica during the Long Eighteenth Century”

- Emily Thames, University of North Texas: “Les boutons de l’habit de gala de Toussaint L’Ouverture: Questions of Authenticity, Ownership, and Authorship”

5:00-7:00pm, Keynote Address (Nedderman Hall 601 - The Rady Room)
- Dr. Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales, Australia: "The Spaces and Times of Transnational History and Historiography”

Kontakt

Isabelle Rispler

University of Texas at Arlington, History department

isabelle.rispler@mavs.uta.edu


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