HGSA 5th ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Hosted by the History Graduate Students Association @ California State University, Long Beach

Navigating Boundaries:
Transnationalism and Migration

Conference Zoom Opens at 9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Milan Zivkovic
10:00 a.m.

“Migration and Racialisation of Citizenship: A Study of Assam’s National Register of Citizens”
Debasreet Deb, University of Otago
10:05 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.

“The Polarisation Express: Migration and the Politics of ‘Arrival’”
Titas Ganguly, Free University Berlin
Archi Mukherjee, Jadavpur University
10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

“The Better Immigrants? — Portrayal of the Integration of ‘Yugos’ in German-Speaking Media”
Sally Heier, University of Sarajevo
10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.

“‘Keep Colonizing:’ The Remaking of Italian Rural Emigration, 1947-1960”
Michele Lupi, Graduate Institute of Geneva
11:05 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.

“‘War Waifs’ — The American Mediatic Narrative of Korean Adoptees & their Identity Construction in the Transracial Third Space: A Longitudinal
Case Study of Adoptees Intergenerational Experiences & Identity Negotiation”
Zineb Khemissi, Portsmouth University
11:25 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Intermission
11:45-12:15

“Moving Pictures, Shifting Identities: Portrayals of Ethnicity, Memory, and Resistance in Vojvodina, 1960-1974”
Milan Zivkovic, California State University, Long Beach
12:15 p.m. – 12:35 p.m.

“Transnational Spaces: The Times of London, 1820-1845”
Mat Sabin, California State University, Long Beach
12:35 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.

“A Cowboy from Siberia: Cultural Diplomacy and Apollo-Soyuz”
Christopher Forestiere, California State University, Long Beach
12:55 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

“Crossing the Prairie in Ribbons and Bows: Women and the Contradictions of Gender on the American Frontier”
Julie Haltom, California State University, Long Beach
1:15 p.m. – 1:35 p.m.

Closing Remarks
Mat Sabin
1:35 p.m.

Zoom Link: https://csulb.zoom.us/j/84080345329

For more information, please email CSULB.HGSA@gmail.com