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)
Introduction: This paper is a work-in-progress chapter from Dr. Liang's dissertation titled "When Disaster Strikes: The 1954 Yangtze River Flood, Disaster Politics, and Environmental Technologies," which is being developed into a book. The book focuses on Hubei province, the epicenter of the 1954 flood, as a microcosm to explore the complex interactions between local communities, state authorities, and the international community in responding to the catastrophe. It investigates the management of the disaster as a tangible event, examining the use of environmental technologies, relocation efforts, and medical interventions. It also explores the construction and deployment of the disaster narrative in China’s early Cold War diplomacy and its lasting and multifaceted commemoration within local society.
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 an upcoming book on the international movement against "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)
