Uncertain Boundaries – Conference Program

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

1pm                Arrival and Registration (with tea and coffee)

2pm                Opening and Introduction, Room 340

                        Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Freie Universität Berlin)

                        Nadja Klopprogge (Universität Tübingen)

                        Maximilian Klose (Universität Freiburg)

2:30-4:30pm   Session 1, Panel 1-3

1.    Borders in Cultural Diplomacy, Room 201

 Nela Erdeljac (University of Zagreb)

''[T]o all four corners of the globe'': Yugoslavia's cultural diplomacy tackles its own ''no boundaries'' policy

 

Camelia Lenart (SUNY Albany)

Modern Women, Modern Dance and the Re-bordering of the Cold War Diplomacy in 1957 Berlin

 

Chair: Nicholas Cull (University of Southern California)

2.    Space, Identity, Belonging, Room 340

Lina Mair (Universität Tübingen)

The Dark Side of Belonging: Violence and Place-Making on the New Hampshire Grants

 

Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University)

Destabilizing Spatial and Identity Boundaries in the Colonial Age: German Jews’ and the Colonial ‘Other’

 

Darold Cuba (Cambridge University)

US Post Emancipation Marronage (USPEM): The Political Thought and Intellectual History of Post Emancipation Freedom Colony Founding Families

 

Chair: Adam Hjorthén (Uppsala University)

3.    Living the Border, Room 319

Weiyu Dang (New York University)

Developing the Paradigmatic Settler: Frontier Solidarities and the Uncertain Boundaries of US-China Relations in the 1940s

 

Sally Anderson Boström (The Technical University of Liberec)

The Legacy of Expulsion: Questions of Belonging in North Bohemia

 

Chair: Friederike Kuntz (Freie Universität Berlin)

4:30-5pm   Tea and Coffee Break

 

5-7pm Session 2, Panels 4-6

4.    Suprastate Border (Un)making, Room 201

William McAllister (Georgetown University)

The Permeable Boundaries of Coalition Belligerency: Differences in War Status Between the United States and the Four Central Powers, 1917-1927

 

Stephan Rindlisbacher (Europauniversität Viadrina)

Separating Communities: The Local Impact of National Bordering in the Early Soviet Union

 

Marlene Ritter (Freie Universität Berlin)

Symbolic Borders and Tangible Boundaries: Branding Europe in the Post-War Era

 

Chair: David Bebnowski (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

 

5.    Bonds and Borders, Room 319

Samantha Lanevi (Cambridge University)

From Fraternization to Marriage: An Examination of American Occupation Policies in Japan

 

Manuel Schmidgall (Cambridge University)

Crossing Racial Boundaries: German-Haitian Intermarriages and the Diplomatic Landscape Before WWI

 

Christoph Lorke (Universität Münster)

Constructions, Imaginations and the Questioning of Borders: Binational Marriages in Institutions, the Public Sphere and Self-Perceptions (1870s to 1930s)

 

Chair: Dana Cooper (Stephen F. Austin State University)

 

6.    Gender, Bodies, Boundaries, Room 340

Friederike Beier (Freie Universität Berlin)

Gendered Boundary-Making by Numbers in the History of International Organizations

 

Tobias Klee (Freie Universität Berlin)

Against Degeneration, Perversion, and Flamenquismo: Catalan nationalism and Spaniards in Catalonia 1898-1936

 

Helen Gibson (Freie Universität Berlin)

Dogwoods as Sacred Boundaries in the Practice of Grand Midwifery

 

Chair: Gülay Çağlar (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

 

7-8pm             Dinner (Buffet)

 

8-9:30pm       Keynote, Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University), Author of I Want to Break Free: A Practical Guide to Making a New Country (Manchester UP, 2022), Room 340

                      “The Art of the Pracademic: The Border Region Between the Academic and the Practical World”

 

 

Friday, December 13, 2024

9-11am           Session 3, Panel 7-9

7.    (Un)Palatable Boundaries, Room 319

L. Sasha Gora (Universität Augsburg)

A Line on the Tongue: Culinary Encounters and Cultural Boundaries in the North American Arctic

 

David Ellwood (Jonhs Hopkins University, SAIS Europe)

Creating Boundaries in the International Food Business: Formal and Informal Cultural Protectionism in Italy

 

Gülay Çağlar (Freie Universität Berlin)

Belonging and the Culinary Construction of Gender

Chair: Nina Mackert (Universität Leipzig)

 

8.    Borders and Cultural Heritage, Room 201

Julian Schellong (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Boundaries of Universalism: Constructing World Heritage and the UNESCO Campaigns for Abu Simbel and Borobudur, 1955-1991

 

Anna Valeska Strugalla

Periods of Transition as Windows of Opportunity? Negotiating and Reframing Postcolonial Restitutions in National and International Forums (1973-1989)

 

Chair: Marcel Will (DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen)

 

9.    Uncertain Boundaries in Science, Room 340

Mimi Cheng (Newberry Library, Chicago)

Imperial Science and the Boundaries of Representation along the Chinese Coast in the Late-Qing Era

 

Shaul Mitelpunkt (University of York)

Soldier-Scholars of the World, Unite

 

Chechesh Kudachinova (Universität Bonn)

’No More A Nowhere’: Mapping The Zone of Knowledge and Encounters At the Last Inner Asian Frontier

 

Chair: Sönke Kunkel (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

 

11-11:30am    Tea and Coffee Break

 

 

 

11:30am-1:30pm        Session 4, Panel 10-12

 

10.  Defining the Boundaries of Europe, Room 201

Adam Dargiewicz (Universität Münster)

Imagining “Bulwark of Europe” in the Nineteenth-Century International Relations: The Case of Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1813/15)

 

Ruth Ennis (Universität Leipzig)

The Emperor’s Sister: Orientalist Depictions of the Female “White Slave” and the European Making of Uncertain Boundaries

 

Chair: Anna Karla (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

11.  Bridging Genre Boundaries, Room 319

Sophie Brady (University of Arkansas)

From Neuilly to Douala: Crossing musical and geographic boundaries at Radio-France’s Studio-École

 

Anna Wieczorkiewicz (University of Warsaw)

From Space to Time and Back Again: Border as a Symbol in Contemporary Polish Travel Writing

 

Jonathan Rosenberg (Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

Americans in Paris: How America's Expat Performers Enthralled the French Capital in the 1920s

 

Chair: Fabian Hilfrich (University of Edinburgh)

 

12.  Borders in Nature, Culture, Spirituality, Room 340

Judith Hendriksma (University of Oslo)

Between the Lines and Between the Spaces: The Greek Religious Conception of Boundaries and the Goddess Hecate

 

Ashley Reed (Virginia Tech)

The Spirit and the Settler: Religious, Racial, and Territorial Boundary-Crossing in the Mountain Cove Community and Its Afterlives

 

Isabel Richter (German Historical Institute, Pacific Office Berkeley)

Indigeneity and the Politics of Belonging in 1960s Countercultures

 

Chair: Sebastian Jobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

1:30-3:00pm   Lunch (Buffet)

 

4:00-7:00pm    Social Event – Excursion to the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation (https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/home)

 

7:00pm           Dinner at local restaurant

 

 

 

Saturday, December 14, 2024

9-11am           Session 5, Panels 13-15

 

13.  Contesting Borders in East Asia, Room 340

Szu-Nuo Chou (University of Ottawa)

The Segregated Others: Chinese Refugee Women's Shifting Roles across Borders and Ethnic Enclaves in Taiwan

 

Saimaiti Maimaitiming (Europauniversität Viadrina)

Going Beyond Borders: “Female Study Abroad” as a Challenge for Gender Boundaries in China, Japan, and Turkey (1870s-1930s)

 

Seung Hwan Ryu (Freie Universität Berlin)

Prelude to the Isolation? North Korea’s Strive for Expanding its Boundaries of International Cooperation in the 1980s

 

Pete Millwood (University of Melbourne)

Uncertain Boundaries of Transnational Democratic Centralism in the Death of Mao and Life of Maoism

 

Chair: Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

 

14.  Avant Garde Echoes: Curiosity, Courage, and Boundary Crossing during the Cold War, Room 201

Lesar Yurtsever (Freie Universität Berlin)

Turkish Delights for Henry Cowell: Avant-Garde Music and the Redefining of Cultural Boundaries Between the US and Turkey in 1956

 

Anais Fléchet (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines)

UNESCO and Avant-Garde Music in Europe During the Cold War

 

Anna Kukatova (Freie Universität Berlin)

Terra Incognita: Western Legends Traveling East – David Bowie and John Cage

 

Chair: David Armitage (Harvard University)

 

15.  Buildings and Boundaries, Room 319

Ilaria Scaglia (Aston University)

The Reading Room’s Shifting Boundaries, 1860s–1920s

 

Lydia Hendriksma (European University Institute)

Material and Immaterial Boundaries at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

 

Karl Wood (Kazimierz Wielki University)

The Boundaries of Culture and Nature in the Transnational Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century

 

Boglarka Körösi (Eötvös Loránd University)

“The Barriers Are in the Minds of the Decision-Makers:” A Struggle for Accessible Urban Spaces in 1989 Hungary

 

Chair: Mathias Häußler (Universität Regensburg)

 

11-11:30am    Tea and Coffee Break

 

11:30-1:00pm Final Discussion, Room 340

 

1:00              Lunch and Departure