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a welcome from your hosts

Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia, TSA Chair

Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia, TSA Chair

Welcome to TSA 2021, the virtual experience. Most conference attendees have already experienced what has become the new normal of virtual conference going, and, as much as all TSA members would prefer to meet in person, we are fortunate to be able to continue the annual conference in this modified format. I am especially appreciative for our friends at ISCTE and all the work they have done to get the conference organized. Thanks also to the program committee. It’s an exciting program, and it will offer the opportunity for TSA members, both new and old, to discuss their research and exchange ideas using the digital technology available to us. We will be back together soon enough, but in 2021, we will have the distinct and memorable experience of conversing virtually. Thank you and enjoy.


Luís Nuno Rodrigues, Director, Center for International Studies, ISCTE, Lisbon

Luís Nuno Rodrigues, Director, Center for International Studies, ISCTE, Lisbon

We would like to welcome all participants at the TSA 2021 Conference. If not for the unexpected development of the pandemic we would have met a year ago in Lisbon, for the 2020 conference. Unfortunately, the current context still does not allow for that possibility, which means that the 2021 conference will take place in the same virtual format that we all have all been using for classes and other academic activities for the last year and a half. It is therefore with mixed feelings that the Center for International Studies of ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, co-hosts this year’s TSA Conference, because we would really love to share with you the sun and the light of mid-July in Lisbon. Nevertheless, we are very proud to be associated with this event, following years of collaboration with TSA and participation at the annual conferences.

For more information about ISCTE, see here.


important inforamtion

Below you will find the conference programme, including all panel sessions, keynote lectures and other events across the three days. You can join the Zoom meeting for each session by clicking on the ‘Join Session’ button located below each event description. Everyone should join the relevant session via this method, whether you are presenting, chairing or participating as an audience member.

For more guidance on how panel sessions will operate, please see the TSA-ISCTE Digital Etiquette Guide.

Every session will include a staff member from ISCTE to provide technical support. If you require any support during the session, please message one of these assistants directly on Zoom. You can also access technical support by emailing: cei@iscte-iul.pt.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL TIMINGS BELOW ARE IN WESTERN EUROPEAN SUMMER TIME


CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE


monday 5 July 2021

  • Conference welcome: 1.45-2pm

  • Plenary roundtable: 2-3.30pm

  • Break: 3.30-4pm

  • Panel session 1: 4-5.30pm

  • Break: 5.30-6pm

  • Keynote lecture by Professor Dan Plesch: 6-7pm

  • Break: 7-7.15pm

  • Early Career Workshop: 7.15-8.45pm

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Tuesday 6 July 2021

  • Panel session 2: 12-1.30pm

  • Break: 1.30-2pm

  • Panel session 3: 2-3.30pm

  • Break: 3.30-4pm

  • Panel session 4: 4-5.30pm

  • Break: 5.30-6pm

  • Keynote lecture by Professor Andrew Moravcsik: 6-7pm

  • Break: 7-7.15

  • TSA Quiz: 7.15-8.45pm

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WEDNESDAY 7 July 2021

  • Panel session 5: 12-1.30pm

  • Break: 1.30-2pm

  • Panel session 6: 2-3.30pm

  • Break: 3.30-4pm

  • TSA annual general meeting: 4-5pm

  • Break: 5-5.30pm

  • Panel session 7: 5.30-7pm

  • Break: 7-7.30

  • Keynote lecture by Professor Anna Brickhouse: 7.30-8.30pm


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE


MONDAY 5 JULY


Conference welcome: 1.45pm

(Please join via Roundtable link below)


PLENARY ROUNDTABLE: 2-3.30pm

“Southern Transatlantic Connections and the Cold War”

Chair: Ana Mónica Fonseca, ISCTE-IUL

Participants:

  • Alexandre Moreli, University of São Paulo

  • Luis Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-IUL

  • Candace Sobers, Carleton University

  • Natalia Telepneva, University of Strathclyde

Hosted by the Centre for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL


Break: 3.30-4pm


Panel session 1: 4-5.30pm


Panel 1A: Forgotten (and Semi-Forgotten) Trans-Atlantic Thinkers about World Order

Chair: Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews

  • Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews. “Denis de Rougemont: The Myths of International Order”

  • David Mayers, Boston University. “Ezra Pound and His Apologia for Mussolini”

  • David Clinton, Baylor University, “John Bassett Moore and the Simple Virtues of International Law”

  • David Woolner, Roosevelt Institute. “Leo Pasvolsky and the Transatlantic Relationship: Cornerstone of the Postwar World”

 

Panel 1B: Transatlantic Activism and Unionism

Chair: Joe Renouard, Johns Hopkins University SAIS-Nanjing

  • Christian Neubacher, Columbia University. “Is there (Global) Power in a Union? An Analysis of the Lack of Transatlantic Labor Union Cooperation”

  • Stefano Luconi, University of Padua. “Political and Labor Mobilities across the Atlantic: Migrants’ Networks and Militancy in Italy”

 

Panel 1C: Twentieth Century Politics in Literature and Art

Chair: Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln

  • Martin Griffin, University of Tennessee. “John Dos Passos’s 1919: the Novel as Transatlantic Memorial”

  • Valeria Espitia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. “The Eye of Man: The Fantasy of Haitian “primitivism” as the Third Way in Cold War Art”

  • James Lockhart, Zayed University. “Quel Panama! John le Carré's Atlantic Crossings”

 

Panel 1D: The Guatemalan Revolution in the Transatlantic

Chair and Discussant: Roberto García Ferreira, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

  • Rodrigo Véliz Estrada, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. “"Remarkably Foolish”: The British Empire and the Anti-Colonialist Policy of the Government of Juan José Arévalo, 1945-1951”

  • Aaron Coy Moulton, Stephen F. Austin State University. “"We Are Meddling’: Anti-Colonialism and the British Cold War against the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954”

  • Julie Gibbings, University of Edinburgh. “German Settlers and the Affective Politics of Guatemala’s Agrarian Reform in Alta Verapaz”

  • Kevin Gould, University in Montreal. “The Transnational Guatemalan Revolution: Anti/Colonial Contradictions of the Post-WWII Guatemala-Israel Alliance”

 

Panel 1E: NATO and Cold War International Politics

Chair: Michele Testoni, IE University.

  • Darrell Driver, U.S. Army War College. “Our Man in Mons: Transatlantic Bargaining in Early NATO Institution Building”

  • Moritz Graefrath, University of Notre Dame. “Power Vacuum Politics and the Origins of the Cold War in Europe”

  • Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. “An Expanding Field: the Historiography of Cold War NATO”

  • Joel J. Sokolsky, Royal Military College of Canada. Joseph T. Jockel, St. Lawrence University. “Canada in NATO, 1963-1971: the Restive Years”

 

Panel 1F: Cultural Responses to Slavery, Colonialism and Violence

Chair: Constance Post, Iowa State University

  • Souad Baghli Berbar, Tlemcen University. “White Slave Narratives: Exploring Reverse Transatlantic Crossings” 

  • Ezekial Stear, Auburn University. “Transmodern Bribes and Cinematic Representations of Bartolomé de Las Casas”

  • Arne Romanowski, University of Dayton. “Decolonial Spaces of Belonging in the US and Germany: Memoirs by Chicana authors and German writers of Central and Eastern European Descent”

  • Sean Metzger, UCLA. “Fata Morgana: Envisioning Precarity in the Black Atlantic”


KEYNOTE LECTURE: 6-7pm

Professor Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London - “Twilight or New Dawn in Transatlantic Relations?”

Chair: Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia


Break: 7-7.15pm


Early Career Workshop: 7.15-8.45pm

Graduate students and those recently graduated face a challenging time, attempting to navigate the academic job market in the wake of a global pandemic. This session aims to support early career scholars in this process by drawing on insights from some of TSA’s plenary speakers. During brief presentaitons and Q&A we will explore the academic job markets in different disciplines (including history, internaitonal relations, literary studies) and geographic locations (including North America, the UK and continental Europe).

All early career scholars are encoraged to attend. Those with more experience to offer are welcome too.

Chair: Kristin Cook, SOAS, University of London

Participants:

  • Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia

  • Ana Mónica Fonseca, ISCTE-IUL

  • Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London

  • Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University


TUESDAY 6 JULY


Panel session 2: 12-1.30pm


Panel 2A: The Transatlantic Relationship and Spain from late Francoism to European normalization: core interests, democracy, NATO and the EEC

 Chair: Ana Mónica Fonseca, ISCTE-IUL

  • Victor Gavin, University of Barcelona. “The US diplomatic canvass of NATO capitals concerning allied attitudes on closer Spanish / NATO ties (1975)”

  • Robles López Asensio, European University Institute, Florence. “For the soul of the Alliance. The United States, Western Europe, and the (in)convenience of integrating the Franco regime into NATO in the mid-1970s”

  • López Zapico Misael Arturo, Autonomous University of Madrid. “Not Just NATO… but Definitely NATO: US-Spain Relations during the Eighties”

  • Sanz-Díaz Carlos, Complutense University of Madrid. “Was the permanence in NATO the price that Spain had to pay to enter the European Economic Community? A historical analysis”

 

Panel 2B: Transatlantic Narratives, Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Translations: Explorations of literary relations between Latin America and East-Central Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries

Chair: Agnieszka Hudzik, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Joanna Moszczynska, University of Regensburg. “Eastern Europe in García Márquez’ Travel Reportage: The geopoetics of socialism”

  • Agnieszka Hudzik, Freie Universität Berlin. “Literary Connections between Literatures form East-Central Europe and Latin America: Sergio Pitol as a case study”

  • Jorge Estrada, Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America. "Roberto Bolaño’s ruthless Modernity in 2666: a Bildungsroman from WWII’s East front to Santa Teresa"

  • Patricia Gwozdz, University of Potsdam. “Literature, Philosophy & Politics of Short Fiction”

 

 Panel 2C: Transatlantic relations and the rise of Western Europe as an international actor in the 1970s and 1980s

Chair: Jussi Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute Geneva

Discussant: Angela Romano, University of Glasgow

  • Alexandre Dab, London School of Economics and Political Science. “The European Community, transatlantic relations and Middle Eastern security: The Venice Declaration of 13 June 1980 revisited”

  • Eline Ommen, Utrecht University. “Western Europe and Central America: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War, and the 1984 San José Conference”

  • Marina Perez de Arcos, University of Oxford. “Accession, Remain, and Balance: Spain’s Transatlantic Realignment during Negotiations to Join the EEC in the late Cold War”

  • Edoardo Andreoni, University of Cambridge. “A new hope? Europe and the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-6)'”

 

Panel 2D: Cold War Networks: Democrats and Antifascists

Chair: Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster

  • Giulia Clarizia, Roma Tre University. “Transatlantic networks: the relations between Anglo-American secret services and Italian antifascists from World War II to the Cold War”

  • Antigoni-Despoina Poimenidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. “Europeanism or Atlanticism? Perceptions of the ‘West’ by Greek intellectuals in the early Cold war period”

  • Ioannis Chalkos, European University Institute in Florence. “Transatlantic relations and the Greek democratic transition, 1974-76: dynamics of cooperation and competition in Southern Europe”

 

Panel 2E: Twentieth Century Cultural Exchanges

Chair: Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln

  • Nuno Medeiros, Lisbon School of Health Technology of IPL. “From the other margin: Portuguese book market and the publishing post-colonial take between Portugal and Brazil in the mid-twentieth century”

  • Cecile Cottenet, Aix-Marseille Université. “Rights, Royalties and Idiosyncrasies: making sense of the French publishing field across the Atlantic”

  • Victoria Carpenter, University of Bedfordshire. “King Creole Does Mariachi: Manipulation of Anglophone Popular Culture in the Works of the Mexican Onda”

 

Panel 2F: Cooperation and Conflict in Science and Technology 

Chair: António Sousa Monteiro

  • Renata Nowaczewska, Szczecin University. “Building transatlantic scientific bridges: the Rockefeller Foundation and exchange programs for scholars on both sides of the Iron Curtain, 1945-1957”

  • Manuel Dorion-Soulié, Sciences Po Paris / University of Cambridge. “American hegemony, car culture, and European oil dependence”

  • Michele Testoni, IE University. “From the ‘Marshall Plan’ to the ‘Zhang Plan’: China and the corona virus propaganda war”


Break: 1.30-2pm


Panel session 3: 2-3.30pm


Panel 3A: Cultural Imaginings, Identity and Insults

Chair: Donna Gessell, University of North Georgia 

  • Grant Stanton, University of Pennsylvania. “Maledcita Franca: The Pattern of Insult in the Eighteenth-Century Imaginary”

  • Samantha Harvey, Boise State University. “Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson and Thoreau: Transatlantic Crossings”

  • Selma Mokrani, Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University. “From New York to the Pyrenees to Algeria: the Fitzgeralds’ Transatlantic Quest for Authenticity”

  • Molly Becker, University of Cambridge. “‘I existed nowhere, and belonged to nobody’: Transatlantic Identity in Mary Borden’s The Romantic Woman

 

Panel 3B: Airpower and the Anglo-American Transatlantic Connection

Chair: Sebastian Cox, Air Historical Branch (RAF) UK Ministry of Defence

  • Ricardo A. Herrera, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. “Airitime Power: Maritime States and the Development of Air Power Theory, 1909-1940”

  • Heather Pace Venable, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base. “Slessor and Sherman: The Outliers of Interwar ‘Atlantic’ Air Theory?”

  • John M. Curatola, US Army Command and General Staff College. “Air Bridge to the Allies: Establishing US Army Air Corps Transatlantic Movement in World War II”

 

Panel 3C: Latin American Literary, Intellectual and Cultural Currents

Chair: Robert Howes, King's College London

  • Sandra Rebok, Independent Scholar. “Different approaches to Humboldt: Opportunities and challenges for a transatlantic identification figure”

  • Mónica Fernández Jiménez, Universidad de Valladolid. “Towards a Hemispheric Theory of Caribbean Literature: A Regionalist Framework for the Caribbean Text in Spanish”

  • Sergio Schargel, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. “Ellipses: Post-Memory and Schargels/Szargels Reconstruction”

 

Panel 3D: International Dimensions of Middle Eastern Politics

Chair: Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia

  • Alexander Langer, University of Colorado, Boulder. “The Bell Tolls for All of US: International Responses to the 1973 Rome Airport Hijacking”

  • Paulina Matera, University of Łódź. “Under Hegemonic Pressure: Turkey and the US sanctions on Iran in the 21st Century”

  • Mark Meirowitz, SUNY Maritime College. “Turkish-US Relations in the Biden Administration: Challenges and Prospects”

  • Marta Kobylska, University of Rzeszów. “Rhetoric of President Barack Obama regarding Syria as Strategic Action: A Pentadic Analysis”

 

 Panel 3E: Personal Chemistry: Science and Technology in World War II and Cold War Transatlantic Relations

 Chair: David Ryan, University College, Cork

  • Richard Damms, Mississippi State University. “From Fission to Fusion: Scientists and Anglo-American Nuclear Relations under Eisenhower and Macmillan, 1957-1961”

  • Molly Dorsey, University of New Hampshire. “Who’s the Boss? Tensions in Britain, the US, and Canada’s relationships because of the threat of Chemical and Biological Warfare during World War II”

  • M. Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University. “‘Fly Me to the Moon’: How the Fab Four Helped Forge a New Transatlantic Partnership”

 

Panel 3F: Weapons Systems in the Late Cold War

Chair: Gavin Bailey, Independent Scholar

  • Oliver Barton, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK MOD. “Whose Hand on the Button? Britain, Transatlantic Relations, and the Battle to Deploy the Euromissiles, 1979-83”

  • Alberto Bueno, University of Granada. Carlota García Encina, Elcano Royal Institute. “When the Cold War was (almost) over: the awakening of strategic debate on nuclear power in Spain during the 1980s”

  • Robin Möser, University of Leipzig. “The Next Nuclear Weapons State? US Intelligence and South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program, 1985-1993”


Break: 3.30-4pm


Panel session 4: 4-5.30pm


Panel 4A: American Sapphos Abroad: Queer Transatlantic Travelers in the Long Nineteenth Century

2021 DC Watt Panel Organised by H.J.E Champion, Université Bordeaux Montaigne and University of Eastern Finland

Chair: Jennifer Ashby, European University Institute 

  • HJ.E. Champion, Université Bordeaux Montaigne and University of Eastern Finland. “‘Diana and Persis’: A Sisterhood of Sculptors and ‘Harem Scarem’ Intimacies in 19th-Century Rome”

  • Lilith Acadia, National Taiwan University. “A Transatlantic Marriage: Discursive Construction and Concealment of a Queer Relationship”

  • Camille Islert, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. “‘Rien de doit vous étonner de moi, je suis Américaine’: Displacement as a Literary and Sexual Legitimation in Natalie Barney’s early works“

 

Panel 4B: Portugal, Decolonisation and the Cold War 

Chair: Luis Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-IUL

  • Clare Richardson, Freie Universität Berlin. “The Portuguese Empire’s shaping of race and decolonization debates in the United States, 1961-1974”

  • Daniel Marcos, Nova University. “Cold War and the resistance to decolonization: The Eisenhower Administration and Portuguese Africa in the end of 1950s”

  • Vitor Herdeiro, ISCTE-IUL. “Broadcasting the Cold War: Portugal and the fight against comunism”

 

Panel 4C: Latin America between the Great Powers 

Chair: Pedro Seabra, ISCTE-IUL

  • Rajeshwari Dutt, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. “Imperialism and Transatlantic Rivalry in the Quest for the Nicaraguan Canal”

  • Alexandre Moreli and Gianfranco Caterina, University of São Paulo. “Cold War oil and the road to the Brazilian 1964 coup”

  • Jane-Marie Collins, University of Nottingham. “A mutually advantageous relationship between the two countries”: Anglo-Brazilian relations in the anos de chumbo (1968-1974) and beyond”

  • Jared Pack, University of Arkansas. “Latin America’s Southern Cone: An Anglo-American Fault Line”

 

Panel 4D: European and American Cultural Exchange in the Nineteenth Century 

Chair: Kristin Cook, SOAS, University of London

  • Julia Barabanova, Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences. “Transatlantic Historicism and Myth Making in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and A History of Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • Deniz Bozkurt-Pékar, Independent Scholar. “Vindicating Kossuth: The Hungarian Revolution across the Atlantic”

 

Panel 4E: Democracy, Human Rights and Great Power Politics 

Chair: Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia

  • Joe Renouard, Johns Hopkins University SAIS-Nanjing. “Twenty Years On: A Transatlantic Perspective on China, the WTO, and PNTR”

  • William Michael Schmidli, Leiden University. “Gorbymania, Nicastroika, and the Malta Altercation: Nicaragua and U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1989-1990”

  • Umberto Tulli, University of Trento. “Human Rights, Anti-Americanism, Third-Worldism and European Identity: The EEC and the Transnational Campaign for Human Rights in Latin America”


Break: 5.30-6pm


KEYNOTE LECTURE: 6-7pm

Chair: Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster

Professor Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University : “Why meeting NATO’s 2% target would make Europe (and the West) less secure”


Break: 7-7.15pm


TSA ‘Pub’ QUIZ: 7.15-8.45

Join the TSA Chair and Vice-Chair for the innagural TSA ‘pub’ quiz, featuring general knowledge, a picture round and TSA bingo! Prizes are on offer - although you may have to wait until next year to get them. Bring your own refreshments.


WEDNESDAY 7 JULY


Panel session 5: 12-1.30pm


Panel 5A: The Evolution of Central European-Transatlantic Migration

Chair: George Hays II, Anglo-American University, Prague

  • George Hays II, Anglo-American University, Prague. “Go East, Young Man”

  • Halina Parafianowicz, University of Bialystok, Bialystok. “The American Journey of Henryk Sienkiewicz: His Portrait of the Country and its People”

  • Milada Polišenská, Anglo-American University, Prague. “17th Century Czech-Atlantic Crossings: Protestants and Jesuits”

 

Panel 5B: Financial diplomacy during the Cold War: the West and the debt crisis of the 1980s

Chair: Luca Ratti, Roma Tre University

Discussant: Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow 

  • Lucio Barbetta, Roma Tre University. “The Western approach to the Turkish debt crisis of the late 1970s: Economic diplomacy and strategic considerations”

  • Catherine LaFevre, University of Glasgow. “Reputation, discrimination and escaping default: the role of the UK as a creditor country in the development of the Hungarian sovereign debt crisis, 1970–1982”

  • Emanuele Parrillo, University of Nottingham. “The Western response to the Yugoslav debt-service crisis 1982-1983”

  • Benedetto Zaccaria. Ca’Foscari University of Venice. “Debt and Conditionality? The Reagan Administration and Poland’s admission to the IMF (1981-1986)”

 

Panel 5C: Transatlantic Memorialisation in the Twentieth Century

Chair: Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster

  • Sam Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University. “Towards a Local History of Anglo-American Relations: Commemorating the Pilgrim Fathers on the Humber, c.1918-1925”

  • Daniele Pipitone, Piedmontese Institute for the Study of the Resistance and Contemporary Society. “Transnational Memories: American Narratives on WWII in post-war Italy”

  • Sarah Sporys, University of Freiburg. “Transatlantic Memories in Times of Change? The Atlantic Alliance and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia”

 

Panel 5D: International History of Social Democracy in the 1970s

Chair: Ana Monica Fonseca, ISCTE-IUL 

  • Ana Monica Fonseca, ISCTE-IUL. “The Portuguese Socialists and the post revolutionary challenges”

  • Michele Di Donato, University of Pisa. “Social Democratic Internationalism and the International History of the 1970s: Southern Europe as a Case Study”

  • Alice Ciulla, Roma Tre University. “Non-state Actors and the Italian “Communist Question” in the Seventies: The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)”

 

 Panel 5E: The Trump Factor in Transatlantic Affairs

Chair: Luis Nuno Rodrigues, ISCTE-IUL

  • Alan Dobson, Swansea University. Steve Marsh, Cardiff University. Philip Berry, Kings College, London (presenter). “Far from ‘The Highest Level of Special’: Anglo-American Relations under Donald Trump”

  • James McKay, Royal Military College of Canada. “‘Follow the Leader?’”

  • Kristian L. Nielsen and Anna Dimitrova, International University of Sarajevo. “It’s a Question of Trust: on the Decline in Transatlantic Relations during the Trump Presidency”

  • Leonard Schuette, Maastricht University. “Shaping institutional overlap: NATO’s responses to EU security and defence initiatives since 2014”


Break: 1.30-2pm


Panel session 6: 2-3.30pm


Panel 6A: Mayflower 400: Atlantic Crossings

In association with the University of Plymouth

Chair: Kathryn Gray, University of Plymouth

  • Samuel Slattery, College of William and Mary. “Plymouth and Massachusetts and their Harbor Forts: Two English Chartered Commonwealths and Fort-Based Maritime Territoriality”

  • Tiziana Lentini, "Dante Alighieri" of Reggio Calabria. “William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation as key role for understanding the contemporary problems behind political refugees and religious persecutions”

  • Dennis Hickey, Independent Scholar. “Of Providence and Politick: Religion in The Moral and Rhetorical Civil Wars of the Anglosphere, 1620-1660 and 2016-2020”

 

Panel 6B: Transatlantic Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era

Chair: Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster

  • Sotiris Rizas, Academy of Athens. “US Perceptions of the Euro in the 1990s”

  • Pedro Ponte e Sousa, New University of Lisbon. “Studying globalization and foreign policy: the (western) political-military global cluster as the main element? A critical assessment”

 

Panel 6C: Nineteenth Century Literary Cultures

Chair: Constance Post, Iowa State University

  • Ninel Valderrama, Duke University. "‘Este país de pillos:’ Reading Galdós and Meza through a transatlantic perspective”

  • Robert Howes, King's College London. “Changing stereotypes: the British in 19th century Portuguese and Brazilian fiction”

  • Tia Byer, Independent Scholar. “Transatlantic Family Reunion: Cosmopolitanism, Flirtation and Cultural Insecurity in Henry James’s The Europeans

 

Panel 6D: Eastern Europe in a Transatlantic Context

Chair: Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent

  • Adèle Sutre, ERC Lubartworld EHESS, Paris. “The transatlantic migrations of Jewish inhabitants from a small Polish town to the Americas (1920s-1950s)”

  • Patrick Vaughan, Jagiellonian University. “Radio Free Europe and the Rise of the Polish Solidarity Movement”

  • Ionel Sava, University of Bucharest. “Remapping Eastern Europe two decades after admission into Nato and the EU”

  • Magdalena Marczuk-Karbownik, University of Łódź. “Canada’s Policy Towards the Situation in Ukraine under Justin Trudeau (2015-2020)”


 Break: 3.30-4pm


TSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: 4-5PM

All conference participants are invited to join the TSA’s Annual General Meeting to discuss the association’s activities over the last two years, future plans for conferences and other initiatives and elections to the Management Committee. We will also be announcing the winners of our prizes and awards during the AGM.


Break: 5-5.30pm


Panel session 7: 5.30-7pm


Panel 7A: Islands and Transatlantic Relations

Chair: António Monteiro, ISCTE-IUL

  • Vanessa Melo, University of the Azores. “Landscape legacies of transatlantic relations in the touristic Azores of today”

  • Dominique Faria, University of the Azores. “The translation of Azorean literature: Connecting the Portuguese Archipelago of the Azores to its American diaspora"

  • Pedro Quartin Graça, ISCTE-IUL, “The islands in the formation of the Continental Platforms”

 

Panel 7B: Ethnicity and Belonging in the Atlantic World

Chair: Robert Howes, King's College London

  • John Freeman, University of Cambridge. “A Political Escape across the Atlantic: Duke Jakob of Courland’s Attempt to Expand out of the Baltic from 1642 to 1682”

  • John Scanlan, Indiana University. “Identifying, Classifying, and Counting the “Irish” in the British Leeward Islands, 1678-1729: Recalculating and Reinterpreting Old Caribbean Data Using 20th and 21st Century Genealogical and Demographic Resources”

  • Christopher Ballengee, Anne Arundel Community College. “Music, Creolization, and Staging Indian Arrival in Trinidad & Tobago”

  • Sandra Tomc, University of British Columbia. “Dressing Transatlantic White Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century”

 

Panel 7C: NATO and New Security Challenges

Chair: Michele Testoni, IE University, Madrid

  • Patricia Daehnhardt, Nova University. “The renewal of alliances: the Biden administration and the transatlantic security community”

  • Andrea Locatelli, Catholic University in Milan. “Does Military Technology Undermine the Liberal Order?”

 

Panel 7D: Portuguese-American life writing

Chair: Kristin Cook, SOAS, University of London

  • Sílvia Oliveira, Rhode Island College. “‘I am not a Dabney’: Francis Millet Rogers’s memoir and Portuguese heritage in America”

  • Carmen Ramos Villar, University of Sheffield. “The narratives of the ocean crossing in Portuguese American women life writing”

 

Panel 7E: Romanies as an Atlantic Diaspora: Movement, Circulations and Connections

Chair: Martin Fotta, Czech Academy of Sciences

  • David Lagunas, University of Seville. “The Gitano Atlantic: Mexico and Argentina”

  • Adèle Sutre, ERC Lubartworld EHESS, Paris. “Romani Voices Across the Atlantic (1880s-1930s)”

  • Esteban Acuña Cabanzo, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Colombia. “Romani mobilities and modernity: transatlantic connections and the role of discourses in managing human movements”

  • Marcos Toyansk Silva Guimarais, LEER-USP, Brasil. “The Portuguese Ciganos transatlantic diaspora: Identity, places and flows”

 

Break: 7-.7.30pm


KEYNOTE LECTURE: 7.30-8.30pm

Chair: Kathryn Gray, University of Plymouth

Professor Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia: “From Lima to Lisbon: Earthquake History in the Making”

Sponsored by the University of Plymouth – Mayflower 400: Atlantic Crossings


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