The Fall edition of this RIAS International PhD Seminar took place on 15-17 November 2017.
Its three panels, chaired respectively by Bruce Kucklick (UPenn), Justin Hart (Texas Tech), and RIAS Executive Director Damain Pargas, featured a discussion of the following papers:
Nick Batho (Edinburgh), ‘“Children of the Sun”: The Development of African American Children’s Books as an Educational Tool’
Jaime Caro-Morente (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), ‘The Industrial Workers of the World and American Socialist Political Culture’
Rivers Gambrell (Oxford), ‘Changing the Game: Richard Nixon and the Politicization of American Football’
Elena Sidorova (SciencesPo), ‘Andy Warhol’s Pop Art through the Prism of US Public Diplomacy
Seung-mo Kang (LSE), ‘The US’ Decision to Exclude Korea from the Peace Treaty with Japan’
Thomas Mareite (Leiden), ‘Self-liberated Slaves in Territorial Louisiana and Spanish Texas, 1803-1812’
Susannah Deily-Swearingen (New Hampshire), ‘Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, and Remembrance in the “Free State of Winston”’
Christoph Nitschke (Oxford), ‘Jay Cooke, the Panics of 1873, and US Foreign Relations’