Schedule

Thursday, March 28

5pm, Public Lecture

Prof. James McCann (Boston University), "Deposing the Malevolent Border: Malaria and the Blue Nile Basin" (UCC 2520D)

Friday, March 29

11am-12:30pm, The Borders of Race? Rethinking Racial Boundaries in Imperial and Transnational Contexts (UCC 2520D)

Moderator: Anny Curtius (French & Italian)

Noaquia Callahan (History, CB Fellow), “An African American Woman's International Agenda: The Life and Experience of Mary Church Terrell, 1880-1940”

Allison Wells (History), “The “Privileges” of Imperialism: Intermarriages Between American Servicemen and Filipinas, 1898-1912”

Admire Mseba (History), “Racialized Rule, Racialized Land: Colonial Experiences and Historical Narratives of land and Power in Zimbabwe”

Raquel Baker (English, CB Fellow), “Aching Whiteness: Transforming African Postcoloniality in Wizard of the Crow”

1:30-3pm, Violence over the Land: Experiences of Territorial Division and Conflict (UCC 2520D)

Moderator: Jim Giblin (History)

Deborah Taffa (English, Non-fiction Writing), “Against a Divided Land”

Marlino Mubai (History), “Dry Sea: Warfare and Environment in Rural Southern Mozambique, 1976-1992”

Nathaniel Chimhete (History), “Neo-liberal Economic Reforms and the Wanyamongo of Northern Tanzania”

Misha Quill (Anthropology, CB Fellow), “Violences in the Field: Anthropology, Human Rights and Humanitarianism”

3:15-4:45pm, Networked Worlds: Politics, Identity, and Culture in Global Contexts  (UCC 2520D)

Moderator: Meena Khandelwal (Anthropology)

Joshua D. Cochran (History), “‘They Didn’t Want the U.S. to Have Political Exiles’: Internationalizing the History of the Amnesty and Repatriation Campaign for American War Resisters, 1970-1977”

Laurena Bernabo (Communications, CB Fellow), "Hasta la Vista! The Long Decline of U.S. Media Imperialism in Latin America"

Hojin Song (Communications, CB Fellow), “I Bake & Blog Because I'm a Mother: Neoliberal Motherhood in South Korea”

Kayla Wheeler (Religious Studies), “Transmitting Islam: How English-speaking Western Muslims are Using YouTube to Share Religion and Culture”