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AHA presentations with History Grad Center scholars

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GraduateA Radical Promise? Building Institutional Contexts in this Interdisciplinary Moment

chair:

Chase Robinson, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Panel:

Neil Agarwal, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Joshua Brown, City University of New York, Graduate Center
David P. Jaffee, Bard Graduate Center
Micki Kaufman, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Chelsea Schields, City University of New York, Graduate Center and Goucher College

AHA Local Arrangements Committee

Academic Disciplines between Remaking Europe and Shaping International Institutions, 1945–80

Malthus, Marx, and the Third World: Demography and History at the Onset of North African Political Modernity
T. Scott Johnson, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Multi/Interdisciplinary Investigations into Italy and World War I

Futurism from Foundation to World War: The Art and Politics of an Avant-Garde Movement
Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, City University of New York

The Future of the Book Review

Academic Journals
Sarah Covington, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

 

PublicHistoryRevisiting New York’s Experience of World War II through Digital Public History

The Seamen’s Church Institute’s American Merchant Marine Oral History Project: An Archival Intervention
Johnathan Thayer, City University of New York, Graduate Center and Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey

 

Facing Francoist Traumas: Negotiating a New Spain

Transnationalizing the Transition: How the International Women’s Movement Shaped Spanish Democracy, 1974–95
Kathryn L. Mahaney, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

The Age of Extreme(s): Age, Public Health, and the Postwar U.S. Welfare State, 1945–80

Chair:
Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
Topics:

Text Analysis, Visualization, and Historical Interpretation

“Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me”: Quantifying Kissinger: A Computational Analysis of the Digital National Security Archive’s Kissinger Memcons and Telcons
Micki Kaufman, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

 

Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 2: The Slavery Archive As History and Narrative

Transnational History as Epistolary Novel: Archives and the Comparative Politics of Producing Narratives of Slavery and Empire in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Gunja SenGupta, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City Univerity of New York; Awam Amkpa,New York University

 

 

Public Health Concerns in the Aftermath of Disaster: Perspectives from Colonial and Modern Latin America

Chair:
Teresita Levy, Lehman College, City University of New York
Papers:

Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication

Panel: Nora Slonimsky, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

 

Solidarity and Revolution: Transnational Perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean Radical History

So Near and Yet So Far: Nationalism and Identity among the Brazilian Exiles in Chile
Mila Burns, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

 

Slavery and Antislavery in the Antebellum North

Panel: Joseph Murphy, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Provincializing European Intellectual History

Chair: Gary M. Wilder, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Choosing Your Own History: Scholars as Game Designers

Chair: Pennee Bender, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Digital Scholarship, Academic Careers, and Tenure

Chair: Katina Rogers, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

Environmental History and Outer Space: Linking Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Natures across Time

Discovering the Final Frontier: The Seventeenth-Century Encounter with the Lunar Environment
Michael J. Rawson, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

 

Hydroelectric Development in Mexico, Palestine, and the U.S. South: Three Cases of Modern State Coproduction

Powering Mexico: Hydroelectricity, Foreign Interests, and the Modernizing State, 1900–20
Jonathan Hill, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

The Living Dead, Microscopic Fibers, Invisible Cloaks, and Radical Cartoons: Methods of Textile Studies for Historians

Visual Culture and the Bloomer Costume: Using Images as Sources
Laura J. Ping, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

Frontiers of Blackness in Argentina, Colombia, and the Circum-Caribbean, 1810–1930

Comment: Herman Bennett, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Open Access: U.S. Journals, U.K. Authors, and Beyond?

Presiding: Martin Burke, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Tour 3: Twentieth-Century Queens

Tour leader: Katie Uva, City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

Social Values of Color: Making and Meaning of Color through Time and Space

Chair: Rachael B. Goldman, College of New Jersey
Papers:
Coloring the Roman Mind
Rachael B. Goldman, College of New Jersey

Harlem: The Unmaking of the Ghetto

Panel: Kevin McGruder, Antioch College

 

Burning the Reichstag: A Dialogue between History and Law

Comment: Benjamin C. Hett, Hunter College, City University of New York

Gran Colombia Studies Committee: Toward a History of Paramilitarism in Colombia

Comment: Mary J. Roldán, Hunter College, City University of New York

 

History in the Federal Government: Careers Serving Policy Makers and the Public

Mentor: Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

 

Protestants and Catholics in Colonial New England

Chair: Laura Chmielewski, Purchase College (State University of New York)

Multi/Interdisciplinary Investigations into Italy and World War I

Futurism from Foundation to World War: The Art and Politics of an Avant-Garde Movement
Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, City University of New York

 

 

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