SOLIDARITIES THROUGH HISTORY
March 30, 2007 in 301 Philosophy Hall
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Breakfast and Welcome
9:00 – 9:30 am
Organizers
Panel 1: Solidarity and the State
9:30 – 11:00 am
Discussant: Professor Anupama Rao, Barnard College, Columbia University
Cynthia Browne (Harvard University)
“The Role of Circulation: Visual Imagery in the Formation of Transitory, Mobile Solidarities of Resistance in Indonesia’s New Order”
Celia Donert (European University Institute)
“Recognition and Redistribution in a Communist Welfare State: Czechoslovakia after 1968”
David Austin (Université de Montréal)
“Global Nationalisms: The Montreal Congress of Black Writers and the Case of Caribbean International Opinion”
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Panel 2: The Ties that Bind: Diasporas, Family, and Nation
11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Discussant: Professor Adam McKeown, Columbia University
Brandon County (Columbia University)
“Cheminots into Malians: Families, Diasporas, and Nationalisms in the Railroad Towns of French Soudan/Mali, 1923-1968"
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Amanda Bidnall (Boston College)
“West Indian Cultural Politics and the BBC, 1945-1965”
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Mathias Mesenhöller (Universität Leipzig)
“Claiming the Resource of Trans-National Solidarity: Poland and the Polish Diaspora Communities in the late 20th Century”
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Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 pm
Panel 3: Solidarity Bridging a Distance
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Discussant: Professor Gregory Mann, Columbia University
Matthew Rothwell (University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Trans-Pacific Solidarities: Latin American Maoists and China”
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Rory Finnin (Columbia University)
“Solidarity with the Subaltern: Allusions to Crimean Tatars in Soviet Ukrainian Dissident Poetry”
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Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Columbia University)
“Transnational Solidarity Movement (s) with Palestinian Resistance: Speculations on De-Territorialized Collective Political Action”
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Panel 4: Limited Solidarities
3:45 – 5:15 pm
Discussant: Professor Frank Hadler, Universität Leipzig
Rod Coeller (American University)
“Conceptions of Mission: Conservative Christian Missionaries in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Era, 1979-1990”
Mike Green (Northwestern University)
“Black Yanks in a Prostrate Japan: Economic Opportunity, the National Security State, and Afro-Asian Solidarity, 1945-1952”
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Fredrik Petersson (Abo Academy, Finland)
“In Control of Solidarity? – Willi Münzenberg, the Workers’ International Relief and League against Imperialism, 1921-1935”
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Wrap-Up
5:15 – 5:30 pm
Professor Mark Mazower, Columbia University
Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Please contact Mari Webel for any questions about the conference.