Introductory Remarks

Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

Panel 1: Global America and the American Century

Todd Bennett (University of Georgia)

"Making Hay while the Sun Shines": The Big Three's Scramble for Cinematic Markets and Cultural Influence in Liberated Europe, 1942-1945.

Commentary: Richard Pells (University of Texas)

Jamie Miller (Cambridge University)

Personality, Ideology and Interest in the Origins of the Modern World Trading System: The Case of Stafford Cripps and Will Clayton.

Commentary: Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg)

Rafael Zagovec (University of Heidelberg)

"Spellbound by the Machine-God": Modernity, Mass Democracy, and Americanism among German Prisoners of War in the United States, 1943-1946.

Commentary: Frank Ninkovich (St. John's University)

Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner

Keynote Address: Ernest May (Harvard University)

Saturday, April 21

Panel 2: Interwar Encounters with Global America

Evan Dawley (Harvard University)

Expanding the View: Internationalization, Cultural Internationalism, and Missionary-Chinese Relations, 1919-1921.

Commentary: Mark Bradley (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Erez Manela (Yale University)

"A Natural and Sacred Right": Sa'd Zaghlul, Woodrow Wilson, and the 1919 Revolution in Egypt.

Commentary: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

David Ekbladh (Columbia University)

To Reconstruct the Medieval": US Non-Governmental Organizations and the Modernization of Interwar China, 1914-1937.

Commentary: Nick Cullather (Indiana University)

Panel 3: Identity, Power and Global America

Brian Delay (Harvard University)

Indian Power and Anglo-American Expansion into Northern Mexico, 1835-1854.

Commentary: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)

Clare Corbould (University of Sydney)

African Americans and the Global Black World, 1919-1935.

Commentary: Patrick Manning (Northeastern University)

Kjetil Djuve (Central Michigan University)

Chicago's Craft Unionism and the IWW's Beginning: The Roots of one Norwegian Labor Leader's Radicalism.

Commentary: Liz Cohen (Harvard University)

 

Panel 4: Global America and Local Politics

Alan McPherson (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Anti-Americanism and International Dialogue: The Panama Riots of 1964.

Commentary: Judith Ewell (College of William and Mary)

Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota)

The Making of the Freedom Struggle in US-Occupied Okinawa: A Study in Interethnic Antiracist Coalition-Building in Koza, 1969-1972.

Commentary: Daniel Botsman (Harvard University)

Tae Yang Kwak (Harvard University)

American Foreign Policy in the Vietnam War and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Korea, 1968-1973.

Commentary: Charles Maier (Harvard University)