UCL Americas Research Network 2024 Conference "Historical Roots and Modern Realities: Nationalism across the Americas" [Announcement]
Thomas Cryer
United Kingdom
University College London's Americas Research Network (RESNET) is proud to announce the opening of attendee registration for its online 2024 conference, “Historical Roots and Modern Realities: Nationalism across the Americas.” Join us this Friday, June 28, via Zoom to hear contemporary and historical perspectives on this critical topic from researchers and practitioners based across London and the globe. For more information on our program, please see the timings below (all times GMT+1).
Through the generous support of UCL and the British Association of American Studies, we are proud to offer free registration to all attendees. To sign up to attend today, simply fill in this form https://forms.gle/JeJRSRZ7pL2KmHee7 or contact nationalismacrosstheamericas@gmail.com.
10.00-11.30 | Celebration, Reparation, and Modernization: State Building in Latin America | Chair: Pablo Uchoa
- Stephanie Ashton-Sanchez (UCL) | Centennial Celebrations of Colombia’s Independence: The Case of Ciénaga, 1910-1911
- Marieta Valdivia Lefort (UCL) | Reparation for Chile's Economic Independence: The Role of Citizenship Formation in National Progress (1912-1931)
- Fernando Remache-Vinueza (Bremen) | Modernization in the Southern Cone: National Identity Myths and Developmentalism in Argentina 1958-1962
11.45-13.15 | The Contours of Liberation: Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Black Thought | Chair: Frankie Chappell
- Marietta Kosma (Oxford) | Nationalism and Motherhood in Alice Walker’s Meridian
- Jordan Powell (UCL) | Ontological Antonyms? On W.E.B Du Bois’ Disaffected ‘American Negro’
- Laura Wilson (British Library) | ‘The Ambiguous Domain’: Representations of Cuba and Haiti in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
14.15-15.45 | Selling the Nation: Nationalism beyond Borders | Chair: Shodona Kettle
- Francesca Edgerton (UCL) | A Diplomatic Defence of Asylum: Mexico at the Inter-American Conferences of 1928 and 1933
- Aidan Jones (KCL) | The Theatre of Diplomacy and Nationalism: Prince Alfred and the Americas
- Zaka Toto (Université des Antilles) | Martinique has its Flag
16.00-17.30 | "In God We Trust?" Nationalism and Commemoration in the U.S. | Chair: Thomas Cryer
- Nathalie Dupont (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale) | Godsploitation, Godlywood and American Nationalism
- Michelle Graabek (Independent Scholar) | The ‘Swedish Rebellion’ in Utah of 1902 and Tension between Religion, Cultural Identity, and Nationalism
- Pat O’Connor (Wichita State) | Commemoration, Honor, and Fraternity: The Sons of Confederate Veterans' Mechanized Cavalry
- Will Ranger (UCL) | Celebrating America’s Birthday: Young People, Public Education, and the American Revolutionary Bicentennial of 1976
17.40-18.30 | United States Studies Online Sponsored Book Hour | Robert Schertzer (University of Toronto) and Eric Taylor Woods (University of Plymouth), authors of The New Nationalism in America & Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2023) | Chaired by Aija Oksman
19.00-20.30 | Keynote Address | Alvita Akiboh (Yale), author of Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Thomas Cryer
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