Program

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Sessions

Session 1: Travel and the Transnational

  • Chair: David Armitage
  • Kathleen Davidson
    University of Sydney
    ‘Museum traffic: nineteenth-century photography and the reframing of natural history.’
  • Rebecca Dorgelo
    University of Tasmania
    ‘Travel, History, and Transnationalism: William Dalrymple’s Writing about Delhi.’
  • Agnieszka Sobocinska
    University of Sydney
    ‘Crossing Borders: Unpacking the Australian traveller on the Overland trail.’

Session 2: Transnationality and Universality

  • Chair: Marilyn Lake
  • Michael Thompson
    University of Sydney
    ‘“World Traveler-Religious Statesman-Author-Speaker”: Sherwood Eddy, the global YMCA, and the emerging discourse of “international relations” in 1920s Protestant America.’
  • Alex Cameron-Smith
    University of Sydney
    ‘Sir Raphael Cilento: Paternalism and Medicine in the Pacific, 1924-9.’
  • Roland Burke
    University of Melbourne
    ‘Fighting against Universality: Global Opposition to Human Rights, 1948-1978.’

Session 3: Seeing Beyond the State

  • Chair: Adrian Vickers
  • Sarah De Santis
    La Trobe University
    ‘Deconstructing the Immigrant Paradigm of a Nation Myth’
  • Amrita Malhi
    Australian National University
    ‘Transnational connections and the uprising in Terengganu, Malaya, 1928.’
  • Nalini Mohabir
    University of Leeds
    ‘Towards a conceptual framework to understand the relation between Indo-Caribbeans and India.’

Session 4: The Transnational/International Nation-State

  • Chair: Akira Iriye
  • Sally Percival Wood
    Deakin University
    ‘Chou Gags Critics in Bandoeng’ or How the Media Framed Premier Chou En-lai at the Bandung Conference, 1955.’
  • Benjamin Silverstein
    La Trobe University
    ‘Indirect Rule and the Transnational: An Australian Instance of an African System.’
  • Xiaoli Zhang
    Peking University
    ‘Japanese Transnational Cultural Experience in Its Own Land: Allied Radio Programs and the Reorientation of Japan.’
  • Xinxian Zheng
    Peking University
    ‘Between Red Cross and Patriot Blood: Florence Nightingale-ism in the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.’

Session 5: Cold War

  • Chair: Matthew Connelly
  • Jane Hong
    Harvard University
    ‘Foreign-Born Asian Americans in an Age of Anti-Communism: The Deportation Trial of Diamond Kimm and the Korean Independence Newspaper in Transnational Perspective, 1943-1961.’
  • Nick Irving
    University of Sydney
    ‘All the Way? Transnational Tensions in the Early Vietnam Anti-War Movement, 1959-1966.’
  • Robert Karl
    Harvard University
    ‘The Politics of International Community Development in Colombia’s New Cold War, 1957-66.’