International and World History: A conference featuring the thesis prospectuses of the students in the MA/MSc program Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016, 10:45 am to 5:30pm Fayerweather Hall 302, 310, and 311

Schedule of Events

10:45-11:15am, Opening Coffee/Pastries (Fayerweather 3rd Floor)

11:15-1:00pm, First Panel Sessions (Fayerweather 302), Navigating War and Peace: Political Histories of the 20th Century Chair: Kelly Wood    Jacqueline Burns, “Administrators in Arms: Anglo-American Civil Servants and the   Second World War   Alexandra Fergen, “Democracy in the Making: Press Freedom in Postwar West Germany    Madeline Klimek, “‘Women can keep secrets’: The Internment of Female Civilians in Great Britain and Canada During the Second World War   Madeline Wahrman, “The Performance of Peace: Zhou Enlai and the Bandung Conference”   Matthew Frakes, “A Breach in the Special Relationship?: Reagan, Thatcher, and the American Invasion of Grenada

Defining Ourselves: Reconfiguring Identity in the Postwar World (Fayerweather 311) Chair: Sabrina Katz   Monique Kil, “From Saving to Spending: The Americanization of Dutch Consumer Culture in the 1950s and 1960s   Clemens Poole, “Recognizing Unrecognized States in Post-Soviet Space   Talia Ertman, “ ‘Every Courageous and Incisive Measure’: The Grassroots Participation of Jewish and African-American Women’s Groups in the American Domestic Propaganda Campaigns of the 1950s   Kelly Wood, “Elsassisch or Alsacien?: Alsatian Identity and the 1953 Bordeaux Trial”   Blaze, Joel, “The World is Watching, Except When it Forgets: The Historical and International Roots of the Politics of Memory in Modern Bosnia and Herzegovina”

1:00-2:00pm, Lunch (Fayerweather 411)

2:00-3:30pm, Second Panel Sessions (Fayerweather 311) Shades of Imperialism: The Rise of Modernity in Asia Chair: Matthew Frakes   Emilie Foyer, “Streaming into Japan: The Evolution of Transportation to and within Japan and the Spatial Dimension of Nineteenth-century Western Tourism   Zhou Fang, “Navy and Nation: Fuzhou and Yokosuka Arsenals in the Early Modernization of China and Japan”   Kara McMahon, “The Second Army of Occupation: The Fraught Role of American Female Teachers in the Philippines, 1900-1909”   Chen Gong, “The Telegraph’s Introduction in China, 1870-1900” Shaping Conflict: Varying Experiences Inside Spaces of Armed Struggle (Fayerweather 302) Chair: Thalia Ertman   Matthew Gailani, “Saddam’s Shields: The Story of Foreign Hostages During the First Gulf War”   Ashley Syed, “From Cuba to Iran: Guerilla Warfare in the 1970s”   Martijn Veenendaal, “Tyrannicide and Democide: Moralities of Terrorism During the Russian Revolution of 1905”   Nathan Grau, “That Morning When Anything Was Possible: Integration and the French Army in Algeria, 1955-61”

3:30-3:45 Coffee (Fayerweather 3rd Floor)

3:45-5:30pm, Third Panel Session (Fayerweather 310) Bridging the Divide: Physical and Social Structures in the Colonial World and Beyond

Chair: Emilie Foyer

Sabrina Katz, “Development unsettled: Displacement, Gender, and Production during the Colonial Dam Revolution, Northern Rhodesia and Mozambique, 1956-75

Brenna McCallik, “‘To Meet and Understand Each Other’: The 1911 Universal Races Congress and the Ethics of Empire”

Shriya Patnaik, “The Minority Question?: A History of Gender in Colonial India through Temple-Dancers in Orissa”   Jennifer Pierson, “What’s so Universal about Secularity?: The 1955 Bandung Conference and the Construction of Human Rights Vocabulary in a Religious Space, 1940s-1960s”   Nadia-Estelle Fiat “The Question of Thailand’s Independence: The Kra Canal and India-China (Dis)Connectivity in the 19th Century”

5:30-6:00pm, Sparkling wine toast (Fayerweather 310)

6:00-7:00pm, Department of History Reception (Kellogg Center/15th Floor International Affairs Building)

7:30pm, Farewell dinner for MA/MSc students (Bistro Ten 18, 1018 Amsterdam Avenue at 110th Street)

**For more information/a panel schedule, please contact worldhistory@columbia.edu