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International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop: Nora Lessersohn

April 16, 2025
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
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Fayerweather Hall | 1180 Amsterdam Ave | Room 411

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)


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.


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)