UNC-KCL Workshop on Transatlantic Approaches to History

Thursday 9 May

10.00 Welcome and Introduction

10.30 - 11.30 Changing identities in contested borderlands - Talitha Ilacqua, '"Il n'ya plus de Pyrénées”? Border Disputes and Identities in the French Basque Country (1785-1856)’ - Daniel Velasquez, ‘Spanish New Orleans in the Caribbean Maritime Borderlands: Identity, Trade and Migration' - Commentator: Professor Paul Readman (KCL)

12.00 -13.00 Knowledge across Borders - Laura Cox, ‘Capital and Collaboration: Women Who Funded the Anti-Apartheid Movement’ - Katherine Ambler, ‘From Central Africa to Manchester: social anthropology and the study of British society at the end of empire’ - Commentator: Dr Anna Maguire (KCL)

14.00 - 15.00 Community, Boundaries, and Media Systems: Russian and Chinese News Cultures in Local, National, and Transnational Contexts - Donald Santacaterina, ‘“Making the Paper Come Alive”: Newspaper Reading Groups, The People’s Daily, and News Cultures in the People’s Republic of China (1949-1978)’ - Hannah Connell, ‘Mediating between local and transnational: The Russian émigré periodical publishing landscape, 1920-1940' Commentator: Dr Rebecca Scott (KCL)

15.00 - 15.30 Talk by Professor Lisa Lindsay, Chair of the History Department at UNC, Chapel Hill, on navigating the academic job market in the US

16.00 - 17.00 Plenary lecture by Dr Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century International History at KCL

Followed by a drinks reception. 

Friday 10 May

10.00 - 11.00 Exclusion and Integration: Community and the Creation of Space in the 20th Century City - Max Lazar, ‘The City of Kohn, Hirsch, Meyer, Weintraub, and Strauß: The Depiction of Frankfurt as a Jewish Space in Local Literature, 1914-1938’ - Vincent Chabany-Douarre, ‘California Dreaming: Assessing Suburban Identity in Midcentury Los Angeles’ - Commentator: Professor Adam Sutcliffe (KCL)

11.30 - 12.30 Roundtable discussion: Transnational History

12.30 - 13.00 Concluding Remarks from Dr Christine Mathias, Lecturer in Latin American History at KCL