Transnational and Global History Workshop

Global Gender History:

Michele Pajero (LSE), Gender and Violence in of Tunisia and Libya (1940-43)
Yiwei Zhang (Nanjing), Comparison of the 1970s Women’s Movements in China and the U.S.: Focus on the MacLaine Delegation to China

Transnational Science:

Sanandita Chakraborty (AUD), Botanical as a Transnational Endeavour
Audrey Ke Zhao (UC Santa Cruz), Tracing the Global Circulation of Ginseng: Commerce, Culture, and the Qing Empire in Transnational Context

Global Intellectual History:

Rohan Chopra (Oxford), ‘Persians are next to the Indians in everything’: Imagining Non-National Spatialities between India and Persia in Mohan Lal’s Travelogues (1831-34)
Zaki Rehman (Oxford), Muslims, Minorities, and Monopolies

Diasporic Culture:

Kassie Drodge (Ottawa), Unveiling the Cod’s Legacy: Newfoundland’s Folklore, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and Lost Stories of the Diaspora
Julianne Chua (Berlin), “oba sobs”: Saltwater, Kinships and Sounding Embodiments in Zong!