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International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Spring 2025

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International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop
Spring Semester 2025

Fayerweather Hall, Room 411,
Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Date Presenter Topic Respondent
Feb. 5 Dillon Banis
(Columbia University)
“Children, Chocolate, and Colonialism: The Chocolate Marketing Revolution and the Rise of Working-Class Sugar Consumption in Imperial Germany, c.1850-1914” – dissertation chapter Carl Wennerlind
(Barnard College)
Feb. 12 Karuna Mantena
(Columbia University)
“The Rowlatt Satyagraha: Why and How Gandhi Civilized Disobedience” – chapter of an upcoming book on M. K. Gandhi and the politics of nonviolence Sandipto Dasgupta
(New School for Social Research)
Feb. 19 Elidor Mëhilli
(Hunter College, CUNY)
“Revise and Resubmit: An Albanian History of China in 1979” Mark Mazower
(Columbia University)
Feb. 26 Angelo Caglioti
(Barnard College)
“From the Alps to the Great Rift Valley: Hydrology, Hydropower and the Italian Colonization of Ethiopia (1935-1941)” Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia University)
March 5 Janick Schaufelbuehl
(University of Lausanne)
Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) – book presentation (the introduction and a chapter will be shared) Rohan Shah
(NYU)
March 12 Burak Sayim
(University of Antwerp)
The Making of Communism in the Middle East: Anticolonial Revolutions, Global Networks and Itinerant Militants (1910s-1920s) – chapter of an upcoming book Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
(Rutgers University Newark)
March 26 Yue Liang
(Grand Valley State University)
“The 1954 Yangtze River Flood and Early Cold War China-U.S.-India Relations” Eugenia Lean
(Columbia University)
April 2 Camille Robcis
(Columbia University)
“The United Nations, the Vatican, and the Birth of Anti-Genderism” – chapter of an upcoming book on the international movement against “gender” Durba Mitra
(Harvard University)
April 9 Nara Milanich
(Barnard College)
“One Day I’ll Tell You Everything: History as Narrative Non-Fiction” – project on the son of an African-American soldier in post-WWII Italy, exploring family, transnationalism, gender, sexuality, and Blackness in Europe Alexander Stille
(Columbia University)
April 16 Nora Lessersohn
(Georgetown University & Columbia University)
“Irish Turks and Circassian Beauties: Authenticity, Hybridity, and an Ottoman-America Joke” – chapter of an upcoming book, co-edited with David Sim, To See a World: Microhistories of the Global United States (Cornell University Press) Edhem Eldem
(Columbia University)
April 23 Chloë Mayoux
(Harvard University)
“Independence in the Nuclear Age: Nigerian Foreign Policy Beyond the Cold War and Decolonisation” Matthew Connelly
(Columbia University)