Wednesday, May 1
5:00 p.m. Reception, East Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
5:30-5:45 Welcome by Francine McKenzie
5:45-6:45 Erez Manela
6:45 Dinner
Thursday, May 2
All workshop panels are held in Room 2, 2nd floor, Harvard Faculty Club
9:00-10:30 Panel 1: Race, Regulation, and International Organization in the Early 20th Century
Chair: Kevin Spooner
Julie Gilmour: The Evils of Opium: Race, Vice and Religion at the International Opium Commission in Shanghai 1909
Francine McKenzie: ‘The Race Issue’ and the ‘Global Color Line’: Canada, Racial Equality, and the Paris Peace Conference 1919
Discussant: Steffen Rimner, Department of History, Harvard
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Panel 2: Race in National and Transnational Identities and Communities
Chair: Laura Madokoro
Kristine Alexander: ‘Equally Applicable to Every Race Under the Sun’: Global Youth Movements and Racial Thinking in Twentieth-Century Canada
Henry Yu: Anti-Asian Exclusion and the Making and Un-Making of White Settler Nations
Discussant: Michael Szonyi, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
12:15-1:15 Lunch - Faculty Club
1:15-2:45 Panel 3: Refugees and Citizens: Who Can Become Canadian?
Chair: Julie Gilmour
Laura Madokoro: Canada, Race and the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
Ben Herzog: Communicating Citizenship: Foreign Correspondences 1945-1977
Discussant: Mira Siegelberg, Department of History, Harvard
2:45-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-5:00 Panel 4: Canada and Decolonization: Change and Challenge at Home and Abroad
Chair: Francine McKenzie
Dan Gorman: The Influence of Ideas of Race on Canadian and British Relations Over Decolonization at the United Nations, 1945-1960
Kevin Spooner: African Nationalism(s) and the Canadian Response
David Webster: From Deskaheh to the Dani: Canadian Mental Maps of Decolonization at Home and Overseas, 1920s-1970s
Discussant: Heidi Tworek, Department of History, Harvard
7 p.m. Group Dinner
Friday, May 3
All workshop panels are held in Room 2, 2nd floor, Harvard Faculty Club
9:15-10:45 a.m. Panel 5: Racial Conceptions and Canada's Foreign Relations
Chair: David Webster
Dave Meren: French Facts: Canada-Quebec-France Triangle through the Prism of Race
Ryan Touhey: Reid, Race and Reductionism in the Canada-India Relationship
Discussant: Mary Sarotte, Departments of History and Government, Canada
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Roundtable discussion chaired by Francine McKenzie
12:30 p.m. Lunch - Harvard Faculty Club