Program Schedule

Conference-Eve Dinner in Chicago: Wednesday (Dec. 8), 7.30 pm at Sepia, 123 North Jefferson Street, Chicago, 60661

Session I: Chicago, Thursday (Morning) December 9; Hong Kong (Zoom only), Thursday (Night) December 9

1-Welcome and Intro: Thursday 8 am - 8:15 am Chicago; Thursday 10 pm - 10:15 pm (Zoom only) Hong Kong
Remarks by: Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), Julia Kuehn (University of Hong Kong), Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago), Kendall Johnson (University of Hong Kong)

2-Thursday 8:15 am - 10:15 am Chicago; Thursday 10:15 pm - 12:15 am (Zoom only) Hong Kong
-Roundtable: "Why Migration? Why Now?: Migration Studies and its Discontents"
Chaired by Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago)
Discussants: Hadji Bakara (University of Michigan), Emma Chubb (Smith College), Bellamy Mitchell (University of Chicago), Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago), Charlotte Sussman (Duke University)
Panel Format: Live in Chicago: each speaker has 7-10 minutes to present their thoughts, which will be followed by an open discussion

Session II: Chicago, Thursday (Evening) December 9; Hong Kong, Friday (Morning) December 10

Chaired by Christopher Taylor (University Chicago) and Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University)

Please note: Buffet dinner at the Franke Institute in Chicago before Panel 3

3-Thursday 7 pm - 8 pm Chicago; Friday 9 am - 10 am Hong Kong
-David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Ante-Possession: A History of Dispossession's Present"
Panel Format: Via Zoom: 45-minute paper followed by 15 minutes of discussion

          Break: Thursday 8 pm - 8:20 pm Chicago (Friday 10 am - 10:20 am HK)

4-Thursday 8:20 pm - 8:50 pm Chicago; Friday 10:20 am - 10:50 am Hong Kong
-Najnin Islam, Colorado College
Title: "Life unadministered: Colonial Care and the Indian Coolie"
Panel Format: Live in Chicago: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

5-Thursday 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm Chicago; Friday 10:50 am - 11:20 am Hong Kong
-Charlotte Sussman, Duke University
Topic: will bring together two interruptions in the British Empire's global movement of labor in the revolutionary year, 1789: the death of enslaved Africans aboard the slave ship James from 'sulkiness' and 'a lethargy' in January 1789; and the mutiny of British sailors aboard the Bounty, in April of that year.
Panel Format: Live in Chicago: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

6-Concluding Discussion for the Day: Thursday 9:20 pm - 9:35 pm Chicago (Friday 11:20 am - 11:35 am in HK)

Session III: Chicago, Friday (Morning) December 10; Hong Kong (Zoom only), Friday (Night) December 10

Chaired by Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)

Please note: Breakfast served at the Franke Institute in Chicago before Panel 7

7-Friday 8 am - 8:30 am Chicago; Friday 10 pm - 10:30 pm (Zoom only) Hong Kong
-John D. Wong, University of Hong Kong
Topic: will focus on the mobility of a China trader from the United States, Paul Siemen 'Sim" Forbes with some comparison with the experience of the Chinese migrant workers who would travel in the opposite direct to earn a living in the U.S.
Panel Format: (Likely) Live in Chicago: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

8-Friday 8:30 am - 9 am Chicago; Friday 10:30 pm - 11 pm (Zoom only) Hong Kong
-Kendall Johnson, University of Hong Kong
Title: "The Free-Trade Print Crusade of Philadelphia's William W. Wood and the Corporate Character of Inter-imperial Finance Capital from Canton to Bengal"
Panel Format: Live in Hong Kong: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

9-Friday 9 am - 9:30 am Chicago; Friday 11 pm - 11:30 pm (Zoom only) Hong Kong
-Stefano Evangelista, University of Oxford
Title: "Tales of the Heart: Edmondo De Amicis and the Italian Migration to Argentina"
Panel Format: Via Zoom from the UK: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

10- Concluding Discussion for Chicago morning session: Friday 9:30 am - 9:45 am Chicago (Friday 11:30 pm - 11:45 pm Zoom only in HK)

Session IV: Chicago, Friday (Night) December 10; Hong Kong, Saturday (Morning) December 11

Chaired by Julia Kuehn (University of Hong Kong)

Please note: 6 pm Hors D'oeuvres at the Franke Institute in Chicago before Panel 11

11-Friday 7 pm - 7:30 pm Chicago; Saturday 9 am - 9:30 am Hong Kong
-Titas Chakraborty, Duke Kunshan University
Topic: the social history of slave trade and slavery in eighteenth-century Dutch and English East India Company settlements in India within the historiographical context of cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean world, and empire formulation and subaltern mobility in eighteenth-century Asia.
Panel Format: Via Zoom from Kunshan (check?): a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

12-Friday 7:30 pm - 8 pm Chicago; Saturday 9:30 am - 10 am Hong Kong
-Kaneesha Parsard, University of Chicago
Title: "Is the Coolie Woman a Banker?"
Panel Format: Via Zoom: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

          Break: Friday 8 pm - 8:15 pm Chicago (Saturday 10 am - 10:15 am HK)

13-Friday 8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Chicago; Saturday 10:15 am - 10:45 am Hong Kong
-Jessica Valdez, University of Hong Kong
Topic: Fictions of Liberal Personhood: Bret Harte's "The Heathen Chinee" and Transatlantic Discourses on Chinese Migration
Panel Format: Live in Hong Kong: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

14-Friday 8:45 pm - 9:15 pm Chicago; Saturday 10:45 am - 11:15 am Hong Kong
-Stuart McManus, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: "Slavery and Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Macau: Evidence from Baptismal Records"
Panel Format: Via Zoom from the UK: a 20-minute paper followed by 10 minutes of discussion

15-Concluding Discussion of final session and conference: Friday 9:15 pm - 9:45 pm Chicago (Saturday 11:15 am - 11:45 am in HK)

Post-Conference Dinner in Chicago: Friday 10:15 pm, Venue TBC

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