Presenter: Camile Robcis
Topic: "The United Nations, the Vatican, and the Birth of Anti-Genderism" - chapter of a current book project, The War of Gender
Respondent: Durba Mitra (Harvard University)
Abstract: In this chapter, Camille Robcis traces the intellectual history of a global movement that she is calling “anti-genderism.” By “anti-genderism,” she is not referring to the more generalized opposition against women’s rights or sexual equality but rather to the narrower assertion that a “gender ideology” forged in academia has become the driving force behind social policy and politics more broadly. She focuses on the Beijing Women’s conference (1995) where these debates around the semantic ambiguity of the term “gender” exploded.
About the International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop
We are thrilled to announce that the International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop will be supported by ISERP, along with Professors Mark Mazower, Adam Tooze, and Matthew Connelly.
This newly designed workshop builds on its earlier version (International History Workshop) but aims to expand its scope - geographically, chronologically, and methodologically. A key new feature is the inclusion of a respondent for each guest speaker, fostering deeper engagement with the presented work.
Our goal is to bring together a diverse group of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members interested in comparative, transnational, global, and international subjects. The workshop will meet weekly on Wednesdays, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., in Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, and will serve as a forum for discussing work-in-progress.
We hope you will find this schedule as engaging as we do and that many of you will join us this semester! To receive the paper (which will be distributed approximately a week in advance), please RSVP using this link. Only registered participants will receive the papers.
Full Spring Semester Schedule: Second Half
March 26
Presenter: Yue Liang (Grand Valley State University)
Topic: "The 1954 Yangtze River Flood and Early Cold War China-U.S.-India Relations"
Respondent: Eugenia Lean (Columbia University)
April 2
Presenter: Camile Robcis (Columbia University)
Topic: "The United Nations, the Vatican, and the Birth of Anti-Genderism" - chapter of a current book project, The War of Gender
Respondent: Durba Mitra (Harvard University)
April 9
Presenter: Nara Milanich (Barnard College)
Topic: "One Day I'll Tell You Everything: History as Narrative Non-Fiction". A project on the son of an African-American soldier in post-WWII Italy, exploring family, transnationalism, gender, sexuality, and Blackness in Europe
Respondent: Alexander Stille (Columbia University)
April 16
Presenter: Nora Lessersohn (Georgetown University & Columbia University)
Topic: "Irish Turks and Circassian Beauties: Authenticity, Hybridity, and an Ottoman-America Joke" - chapter of an upcoming book, co-edited with David Sim, To See a World: Microhistories of the Global United States (Cornell University Press)
Respondent: Edhem Eldem (Columbia University)
April 23
Presenter: Chloë Mayoux (Harvard University)
Topic: "Independence in the Nuclear Age: Nigerian Foreign Policy Beyond the Cold War and Decolonisation"
Respondent: Matthew Connelly (Columbia University)
April 30
Presenter: Glenda Sluga (European University Institute)
State-of-the-Field Roundtable: What Does International, Global, and Transnational History Really Mean?
with Matthew Connelly and Mark Mazower (Columbia University)
