Events

Past Event

International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop: Sonali Dhanpal

March 11, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Fayerweather Hall | 1180 Amsterdam Ave | Room 413

Presenter: Sonali Dhanpal (Columbia University)

Topic: “The Paper Bureaucracy of Land: Drawing Caste into a ‘Racial’ Regime of Property in Colonial Bangalore”

Respondent: Debashree Mukherjee (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 5:00–6:30pm, in Fayerweather Hall, Room 413 unless otherwise specified, 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.


March 25th 

Presenter: Jakub Straka (Masaryk University)

Topic: “Behind the Iron Curtain: Art, Cultural Encounters, and State Control in 1960s Czechoslovakia”

Respondent: Patryk Tomaszewski (Fordham University)

April 1st

Presenter: Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín (University of Vienna)

Topic: “Ahead of the Times: Erecting the United Nations Headquarters in New York City’s 'Empire State’ (1939-1952)”

Respondent: Kim Phillips-Fein (Columbia University)

April 8th

Presenter: Paris Papamichos-Chronakis (Royal Holloway, London)

Topic: “Dark Cosmopolitanism: Greek Αntisemitism in Mediterranean Perspective, 1840-1914”

Respondent: Louis Fishman (CUNY)

April 15th

Presenter: Hongyi Yu (Columbia University)

Topic: “The Revival of the Interpersonal Propaganda Against the Backdrop of Cinematic Exchange Between Socialist China and North Korea in the 1960s”

Respondent: Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College, CUNY)

April 22nd

Presenter: Patrick Cohrs (University of Florence)

Topic: “Transformative Learning: The Remaking of World Order in the Long 20th Century”

Respondent: Adam Tooze (Columbia University)

April 29th

Presenter: Glenda Sluga (European University Institute)

Topic: “What Does International, Global, and Transnational History Really Mean?”

Respondent: Matthew Connelly, Mark Mazower, and Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)