2010-2011 Schedule

Fall Program:

Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota, “Gendered Transitions in International Migration.” October 15, 2010
 
Kwasi Konadu, City University of New York, “Diaspora, Africa, and the Akan Optic: The Akan in the British Caribbean.” October 22, 2010
 
Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley, “The Hong Kong Project”: A History of Chinese International Adoption in the United States.” November 12, 2010
 
Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine, “Finding Charity Folks:  Public Memory and the Reconstruction of an Enslaved Biography.” November 19, 2010
 
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh, “Rethinking the Amistad Rebellion.” December 3, 2010
 

Spring Program:  

April 1: Special session on Latin American Jewry
 
Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas, El Paso
Judti Bokser Liwerant, Universidad Naiconal Autónoma de México
Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
 
April 15: Roxana Galusca
 
April 22: Greg Smithers
 
April 29: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
 
May 6: Yuh Ji-Yeon, Northwestern University, Korean Diaspora
 
CHR Fellows:
(dates of presentations to be announced)
 
Senior Faculty Fellow: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney, Chileans in Cold War Germany
 
Junior Faculty Fellow: Gregory D. Smithers, Cherokee Diaspora, 1820s-1930s
 
Dissertation Fellow: Roxana Galusca, “The Politics of Anti-Sex Trafficking Humanitarianism in the U.S.: From Neoliberal Compassion to Women’s Rights.”