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The Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International and Global
History (Con-IH) is organized by Harvard graduate students who are
immersed in the field of international history. The conference selects
12 graduate students from around the world to participate in a two-day
conference to present and discuss cutting-edge scholarship in various
themes of international and global history. This two-day conference
takes place from April 2 - 3 2020. For panels and schedules, please see
below or the conference agenda.
10:00AM-12:00PM: TECHNOLOGIES OF IMPERIAL DISCIPLINE
Amy Hodgson, University of Melbourne: "‘This
is unbearable. I don’t want to do this kind of job’: Discipline and
Policing in the Transnational Category of Truth Commission Labor"
Georgia Brunner, Emory University: “Forced Labor and Gender in Colonial Rwanda”
Meleia Simon-Reynolds, UC Santa Cruz: “Photographic Representations of Filipino Sugar Plantation Laborers in Hawai’i”
12:00PM- 1:30PM: LUNCH
1:30PM- 3:30PM: MAKING THE CRIMINAL
Marcelo Ferraro, University of São Paulo: “The Political Economy of Punishment: Slavery in Brazil and the United States in the Nineteenth Century”
Ryan Fontanilla, Harvard University: “A History of the Heist: Organized Thieves and the Labor of Taking in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, ca. 1830s-1890s”
Lacy Feigh, University of Pennsylvania: “Punishing Slavery: Enforcing Abolition in 1940s Ethiopia”
