Monday, June 7, 2021
Keynote
6 – 7:10 a.m. (Pacific)
9 – 10:10 a.m. (East Coast)
3 – 4:10 p.m. (Germany)
4 – 5:10 p.m. (Moscow)
9 – 10:10 p.m. (China)
10 – 11:10 p.m. (Japan)
11 p.m. – 12:10 a.m (Melbourne)
The Chinese Question: Chinese Migration and Global Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington): Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Mae Ngai (Columbia University): Lecture
Payal Banerjee (Smith College): Commentary
Q&A
Panel 1
7:15 – 8:30 a.m. (Pacific)
10:15 – 11:30 a.m. (East Coast)
4:15 – 5:30 p.m. (Germany)
5:15 – 6:30 p.m. (Moscow)
10:15 – 11:30 p.m. (China)
11:15 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. (Japan)
12:15 – 1:30 a.m (Melbourne)
Regulating Space and Place in Late Qing China
Nan-Hsu Chen (Washington University in St. Louis):
States, Settler-Aboriginal Alliances, and Stateless Space in Maritime Southeast Qing China in the 1860s
Christina Till (China Branch Office Beijing, Max Weber Stiftung):
Administering the Borderland Empire:
Multiethnic and Multilingual Archives in Heilongjiang Province in the Late Qing Dynasty
Elliott Young (Lewis & Clark College):
Beyond Chinese ‘Coolies’ as Victims
Commentary: Gabriel Terol Rojo (Universidad de Valencia)
Chair: Sarah Beringer (German Historical Institute Washington)
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Panel 2
6 – 7:15 a.m. (Pacific)
9 – 10:15 a.m. (East Coast)
3 – 4:15 p.m. (Germany)
4 – 5:15 p.m. (Moscow)
9 – 10:15 p.m. (China)
10 – 11:15 p.m. (Japan)
11 p.m. – 12:15 a.m (Melbourne)
Cultural Encounters and Exclusion Along the Pacific Rim
Kristie Patricia Flannery (IHSS, Australian Catholic University):
Empire by Expulsion: Analyzing the First Forced Mass Migration in the Pacific World and its Legacies
Luise Fast (Universität Bielefeld):
Navigating Cultural Encounter in the North: Interpreters in Nineteenth-Century Alaska
Kankan Xie (Peking University):
Harnessing Nationalism: Chinese Education in the Late-Colonial Dutch East Indies, 1900-1942
Commentary: Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University)
Chair: Sören Urbansky (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington)
Panel 3
7:20 – 8:30 a.m. (Pacific)
10:20 – 11:30 a.m. (East Coast)
4:20 – 5:30 p.m. (Germany)
5:20 – 6:30 p.m. (Moscow)
10:20 – 11:30 p.m. (China)
11:20 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. (Japan)
12:20 – 1:30 a.m (Melbourne)
Hemispheric and Transpacific Approaches Toward Regulating Mobility
Ricardo Martínez Esquivel (Universidad de Costa Rica):
Unwanted Immigrants, Social Control, and Exclusion in Costa Rica from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
Kathy Lopez (Rutgers University):
Hemispheric Mobilities and the Limitations of Restrictions: A Comparative View of Chinese and European Migrants in an Age of Exclusion
Chrissy Yee Lau (California State University – Monterey Bay):
Racial Arbiters: Uplift and the Japanese Diaspora Youth, 1924-1934
Commentary: David FitzGerald (University of California, San Diego)
Chair: Albert Manke (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington)
wednesday, June 9, 2021
Panel 4
6 – 7:15 a.m. (Pacific)
9 – 10:15 a.m. (East Coast)
3 – 4:15 p.m. (Germany)
4 – 5:15 p.m. (Moscow)
9 – 10:15 p.m. (China)
10 – 11:15 p.m. (Japan)
11 p.m. – 12:15 a.m (Melbourne)
Exclusion, Redemption, and Knowledge
Kevin Escudero (Brown University):
Tracing the Legacies of Empire in the Pacific through U.S. Immigration Laws: The Case of the Mariana Islands (1898-2009)
Andre Kobayashi Deckrow (University of Minnesota):
Global Brazilian Exclusion: International Cooperation and Contestation in the Making of Anti-Japanese Immigration Law in 1930s Brazil
David Wolff (Hokkaido University):
From the Jungle to the Golden Gate: The Exclusion and Redemption of White Russian Refugees from China, 1945-1951
Yufei Zhou (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo):
Émigré Scholars and the Multi-National Networks in Postwar America’s Asian Studies: The Case of the “Chinese History Project” (1939-1966)
Commentary: Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University)
Chair: Sonja Ganseforth (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo)
Panel 5
7:20 – 8:30 a.m. (Pacific)
10:20 – 11:30 a.m. (East Coast)
4:20 – 5:30 p.m. (Germany)
5:20 – 6:30 p.m. (Moscow)
10:20 – 11:30 p.m. (China)
11:20 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. (Japan)
12:20 – 1:30 a.m (Melbourne)
Agency, Exclusion, and Belonging from the Cold War to the 21st Century
Fredy González (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Overseas Chinese Sworn Brotherhoods During the Cold War
Monica Cinco (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa):
From the Politics of Difference and Indifference to the Mexican State Requesting Forgiveness from Mexico’s Chinese Community
Commentary: Christoph Rass (Osnabrück University)
Chair: Benjamin Beuerle (Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau)