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”