UCL’s Institute of the Americas is proud to announce the return of its annual Americas Research Network conference on June 28th 2024, via Zoom. We have an exciting day of presentations on the theme of ‘Historical Roots and Modern Realities: Nationalism across the Americas’, ranging from 13 paper presentations to a United States Studies Online sponsored new book panel on The New Nationalism in America and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2023) and a distinguished keynote by Dr Alvita Akiboh (Yale), the author of Imperial Material: National Symbols in the U.S. Colonial Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2023). For more details, please see the schedule below.
Through the support of UCL and the British Association of American Studies, we are proud to offer free registration to all attendees. To register as an attendee for free, simply fill in this form: https://forms.gle/wBMEv5L9vdAkS9Wb6 or email nationalismacrosstheamericas@gmail.com.
Schedule (All Times GMT+1)
10.00-11.30 | State Building in Latin America | Chair: Pablo Uchoa (UCL)
- Stephanie Ashton-Sanchez (UCL) | Centennial Celebrations of Colombia’s Independence: The Case of Ciénaga, 1910-1911
- Marieta Valdivia Lefort (UCL) | Reparation for Chile’s Economic Independence: The Role of Citizenship Formation in National Progress (1912-1931)
- Fernando Remache-Vinueza (Bremen) | Modernization in the Southern Cone: National Identity Myths and Developmentalism in Argentina 1958-1962
11.45-13.15 | Black Thought | Chair: Frankie Chappell (UCL)
- Marietta Kosma (Oxford) | Nationalism and Motherhood in Alice Walker’s Meridian
- Jordan Powell (UCL) | Ontological Antonyms? On W.E.B Du Bois’ Disaffected ‘American Negro’
- Laura Wilson (British Library) | ‘The Ambiguous Domain’: Representations of Cuba and Haiti in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
14.15-15.45 | Nationalism beyond Borders | Chair: Shodona Kettle (UCL)
- Francesca Edgerton (UCL) | A Diplomatic Defence of Asylum: Mexico at the Inter-American Conferences of 1928 and 1933
- Aidan Jones (KCL) | The Theatre of Diplomacy and Nationalism: Prince Alfred and the Americas
- Zaka Toto (Université des Antilles) | Martinique has its Flag
16.00-17.30 | Nationalism and Commemoration in the U.S. | Chair: Thomas Cryer (UCL)
- Nathalie Dupont (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale) | Godsploitation, Godlywood and American Nationalism
- Michelle Graabek (Independent Scholar) | The ‘Swedish Rebellion’ in Utah of 1902 and Tension between Religion, Cultural Identity, and Nationalism
- Pat O’Connor (Wichita State) | Commemoration, Honor, and Fraternity: The Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Mechanized Cavalry
- Will Ranger (UCL) | Celebrating America’s Birthday: Young People, Public Education, and the American Revolutionary Bicentennial of 1976
17.40-18.30 | United States Studies Online Sponsored Book Hour | Robert Schertzer (University of Toronto) and Eric Taylor Woods (University of Plymouth), authors of The New Nationalism in America & Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2023) | Chaired by Aija Oksman (USSO and Edinburgh)
19.00-20.00 | Keynote Address | Alvita Akiboh (Yale), author of Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
