# Warren Center: Symposium on Global American Studies #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 11, 2014** 08:30AM - 06:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)** [Schedule](/file_url/499) Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History presents... SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL AMERICAN STUDIES Thursday, December 11, 2014 CGIS S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Gather; light refreshments provided 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Panel One: Global Labor and Empire “Corporate Empire: Fordism and the Making of Immigrant Detroit” – **Saima Akhtar** (Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, Art Histories) “From ‘Alien Labor’ to ‘Temporary Alien’ Employees: Migrant Rights at Work across Regulatory Regimes in the United States (1942-2011)” – **Gabrielle Clark** (American University, Law, Justice, and Criminology) “Enigma of Intellectual Production and Transmission in Global Capitalism: Explaining the Worldwide Sitdown Strike Movement of 1936” – **Joseph Fronczak** (Harvard University, Mahindra Humanities Center) “The U.S. Army and Colonial Military Labor in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913” – **Justin Jackson** (NYU, Draper Program) 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Panel Two: Race and Empire “‘Sympathies as Broad as the Universe’: Globalizing Black Antislavery after Emancipation” – **Justin Leroy** (Harvard University, Warren Center) “Black Sea, Black Atlantic: From Frederick Douglass to Leo Tolstoy, Images of the Caucasus in the Wake of the Civil and Caucasian Wars” – **Sarah Lewis** (Harvard University, Hutchins Center) “‘Destined by Divine Providence?’: Rethinking the Continental Geopolitics of Early Nineteenth- Century North America” – **Sarah Rodriguez** (University of Pennsylvania, History) 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch To order a lunch, email Larissa Kennedy () no later than Wednesday, December 3rd. In your email, indicate any dietary restrictions. Pay $5.00—cash or check, no credit cards—at the event. If you attend they symposium without having ordered a lunch, bring your own or visit nearby quick options. 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Panel Three: Gender, Nationalism, and Imperial Power “‘Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans’: The Transnational and Colonial History of the U.S. Welfare State” – **Emma Amador** (University of Michigan, History) “Stitching the Seams of Afro-Latina/o Political Identities across American, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Divides” – **Jose Fuste** (University of California San Diego, Ethnic Studies) “The Feminist Subject at War: Logics of Racialization in U.S. Humanitarian Imperialism” – **Elizabeth Mesok** (Harvard University, Warren Center) 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Panel Four: Expressions of State Power “Debt and Difference: The Politics of Agriculture in the United States, Egypt, and India in an Age of Global Crisis” – **Samantha Iyer** (Harvard University, Warren Center) “Nowhere to Hide: International Fugitives and American Power” – **Katherine Unterman** (Texas A&M, History) “Philippine Disorders in the Able-Bodied Empire” – **Allan Lumba** (Harvard University, Warren Center) “Mobilizing ‘Free Asians’: Asian American Soldiering through the Decolonizing Pacific” – **Simeon Man** (University of Southern California, American Studies and Ethnicity) *Our co-sponsors:* *African and African American Studies Department* *American Studies Program* *David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies* *History Department* *Hutchins Center for African and African American Research* *Institute for Global Law and Policy, Law School* *Social Science Division, and Dean Peter Marsden* *Weatherhead Center for International Affairs* --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf global\_am\_studies\_symposium\_poster.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/history/files/global_am_studies_symposium_poster.pdf) --- See also:- [ Elsewhere at Harvard ](/events/elsewhere) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/293451/event-feed.ics) Copy link link