Welcome and Introductions
2021-2022
Mellon Research Seminar
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September 14, 2021
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September 21, 2021
Dagmawi Woubshet, Topic Director
Respondent: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet -
September 28, 2021
Andrew Carruthers
Migration and the Push-Pull of "Worlding"
Respondent: Ramah McKay -
October 5, 2021
Megan Robb
Becoming Elizabeth: The Transformation of a Bihari Mughal into an English Lady, 1758-1822
Respondent: Christopher Parmenter -
October 12, 2021
Job Market Workshop
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October 19, 2021
Neelam Khoja
Competing Sovereignties in Eighteenth-Century South Asia: Afghan Claims to Kingship
Respondent: David Wallace -
October 26, 2021
Theodore Schurr
Stories of Ancestry, Inheritance & Belonging
Respondent: Reyhan Durmaz -
November 2, 2021
Min Kyung Lee
Mapping Wigs and Plywood: Korean Migration and the African American Urban Landscape
Respondent: Mariola Alvarez -
November 9, 2021
Nancy Steinhardt
Architectural Migration in East Asia: The Period of Mongolian Rule
Respondent: Shelley Zhang -
November 16, 2021
Esmeralda Arrizon-Palomera
The Coloniality of Citizenship and the Turn to the Undocumented in Feminist Thought
Respondent: Meriel Tulante -
November 30, 2021
Pavel Andrade
Norte, Desierto, Frontera: Migrant Spaces in the Mexican and Latinx Novel of the NAFTA era
Respondent: Dagmawi Woubshet -
January 18, 2022
Jamie Zelechowski
Resignifying People and Territory: German and Polish Cinema vis-à-vis the Potsdam Agreement and Beyond
Respondent: Neelam Khoja -
January 25, 2022
Ishani Dasgupta
Emergence of a Deterritorialized Nation: How Tibetan Resistance Practices Confront the Precarity of Statelessness
Respondent: Sonal Khullar -
February 1, 2022
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Tales of Trespassing: Borderland Histories of Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf
Respondent: Esmeralda Arrizon-Palomera -
February 8, 2022
Shelley Zhang
Music after the Cultural Revolution: Transnational Precarity for China’s One-Child Generation
Respondent: Nancy Steinhardt -
February 15, 2022
David Wallace
Nationalizing Epics
Respondent: Jamie Zelechowski -
February 22, 2022
Joel Pattison
Trade and Religious Boundaries in the Medieval Maghrib: Genoese Merchants, their Products, and Islamic Law, 1150–1300
Respondent: Min Kyung Lee -
March 1, 2022
Sonal Khullar
A Million Migrations Now: Art and Citizenship in India's Northeast
Respondent: Andrew Carruthers -
March 15, 2022
Harry Kashdan
The Neighbor's Table
Respondent: Megan Robb -
March 22, 2022
Ramah McKay
Modeling Displacement: Enumerating and Forecasting Migration in an Age of Climate Change
Respondent: Pavel Andrade -
March 29, 2022
Somali-Italian Migration in the Novels of Igiaba Scego and Cristina Ali Farah
Respondent: Joel Pattison -
April 5, 2022
Mariola Alvarez
Becoming Brazilian: Immigrant Artists’ Groups in São Paulo
Respondent: Harry Kashdan -
April 12, 2022
Christopher Parmenter
Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE
Respondent: Theodore Schurr -
April 19, 2022
Reyhan Durmaz
Publishing Piety: Syrian Orthodox Community and Religion in Kawkab Amrika in 19th-Century New York City
Respondent: Ishani Dasgupta -
April 26, 2022
Closing Discussion