NICHOLAS D. CHABRAJA CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES

Past Graduate Global Exchanges

2016-17 Global Graduate Exchanges with QMUL and HKU

• In 2017 a group of QMUL School of History students and Dr. Christopher Moffatt and a group of HKU grads with Prof. John Carroll came to NU from April 9-16, taking part in CCHS events, including the April 14, 2017 conference on "The Popular and/in History."
• A group of NU graduate students and Professor Haydon Cherry traveled to Hong Kong to take part in the annual graduate History Spring Symposium on May 11, 2017:

1. Alvita AKIBOH (4^th year)—“Undoing Americanization: The Japanese Occupation in the U.S. Pacific”
2. Kevin BAKER (6^th year)—“Living with Limits: Asia Growth, the Club of Rome, and the Birth of Sustainable Development”
3. Anisha BHAT (1^st year)—“A Social History of Africans in Early Modern India: Race, Power and Love in the Making of an Afro-Deccani Social Identity, c. 1500-1700”
4. Youjia LI (3^rd year)—“The Flowing Cho: Defining Edo’s Space through Urban Transportation”

2015-16 International Graduate Exchange with the School of History, Queen Mary University of London:

QMUL School of History students and Dr. Christopher Moffatt come to NU from April 10-17, taking part in CCHS events, including the April 15 conference.

In London with QMUL March 21 conference on “Negotiating Relationships: Analysing Connections (and Divisions)”

• Ruby DAILY, “Sex in the ‘Anglo World’: Tracing Twentieth-Century Anglo-Sexual Community through Fetishism, Sexology and Amateur Erotics”
• Amanda KLEINTOP, “The terms of Emancipation: Negotiating Federal Emancipation Policy in the Civil War in Louisiana”
• Laura McCOY, “’I Commend My Family to Your Attentions’: Familiar and Familial Relationships in the Global Early American Republic”
• Aram SARKISIAN, “’These Radicals’: Russian Orthodox Christianity and 100 Percent Americanism in Red Scare Detroit, 1917-21”

In Evanston for April 15 conference on “Intimate Histories: Intersections between the Global and the Personal”

• Kerrie HOLLOWAY, “Humanising Humanitarianism: Identifying the Spanish Refugee’s Voice in the Aid Narrative”
• Ella KILGALLON, “Angela of Foligno: An Intimate Account for a Global Audience”
• Itay LOTEM, “Anti-Racist Activists, France’s Memory of Slavery and the Rediscovery of Black Identity”
• James SOUTHERN, “’On the Coattails of the Clever Middle-Class Types’: Interviewing Postwar Britain’s Working-Class Diplomats”

2015-16 International Graduate Exchange with the History Department of Hong Kong University:

 In Evanston for April 1 conference on “The Power of the Past”

• Aurelio INSISA (Hong Kong U)—“The Mythopoesis of an Empire: Tang China’s Imperial Legacy and Song Dynasty’s Soft Power in East Asia (10-11^th C.)”
• Nathan KWAN (Hong Kong U)—“Mediating between Empires: The Role of the Kowloon Xunjian in Sino-British Relations, 1843-1856”
• David SAUNDERS (Hong Kong U)—“National Identity and Local Myth: The Sulu Sultanate, the Philippines and the Manufacturing of Anti-Colonial Tradition, 1946-1963.”
• Sarah YU (Hong Kong U)—“How ‘Modernization’ Became ‘Reconstruction’: Chinese Study Abroad, 1937-1945.”

In Hong Kong for the May 5 HKU History Symposium

• Emma GOLDSMITH, “57 weeks in Exile: Richard Holt on a Blue Funnel Business Trip, 1892-3”
• Michael FALCONE, “Leviathans and Lab Coats: Global Power and Technological Nationalism in the U.S. and Asia”
• Guangshuo YANG, “Myth and Counter-Myth: The Dialectics of Mythmaking of the Animal Protection Movement in 1930s Shanghai”
• Yanqiu ZHENG, “In and Beyond the Cultural Cold War: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States at the Crossroads, 1943-1955"

 2014-2015 International Workshops/Exchanges

International Graduate Exchange with Queen Mary University of London

March 14-22 exchange and conference--NU participants: Jessica Biddlestone, Kyle Burke, Ryan Burns, Ashley Johnson, Joel Penning, Keith Rathbone, and Emily VanBuren.
School of History, QMUL

NU students were paired with a counterpart sharing their interests at QMU for several days of collective events, with time also allotted to explore London’s academic and cultural resources independently. NU participants were expected to give a brief overall description of their research interests and to take an active part in exchange activities. Ryan Burns, Kyle Burke, Joel Penning, and Keith Rathbone delivered papers at the graduate conference “Crossing the Line: Exploring the Challenges of Borders and Boundaries” on Monday, March 15, while Center Director Sarah Maza gave a talk on “Writing History” (on her upcoming book) on March 17.

Hong Kong University History Department graduate Symposium, May 7, 2015

NU participants:

• Keith CLARK—“China and the World Stage: The 1971 Transfer of the UN’s ‘China Seat’ from Taipei to Beijing”
• Alex HOBSON—“ How to Uproot an Empire: The Anti-Imperialist Vision of Dr. Hurj Habash, Dr. Wadi’a Haddad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1967-70”
• Alexandra LINDGREN-GIBSON—“Class and Colonial Knowledge: The Miseducation of Private Frederick Lambert”
• Blake SMITH—“The Circulation of Antisemitism and Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Late-Eighteenth-Century Java and Western Europe”
• Rachel TAYLOR—“’Coolie’ Fantasies: German East Africa and the Ideal of the East Asian Laborer”

2012-2013 Global Exchange: Istanbul, Turkey

2011-2012 Global Exchanges: Prague, Czech Republic; Dublin, Ireland; Rome, Italy

2010-2011 Global Exchanges: Sestri Levante, Italy; Rio, Brasil

2009-2010 Global Exchanges: Cambridge, UK; Trinity College Dublin in Evanston

2008-2009 Global Exchanges: Galway, Ireland; Munich, Germany