Events
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- No registration necessary
- First come, first seated
- Photo ID required for entry
This conference, an installment of the Disciplines Series, features a number of prominent historians and anthropologists from across the country. It is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Program
April 13, 2012 Friday
9:30am EDT
Coffee
10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
First Panel
The Creation of a Middle Eastern Exception in the World of Intelligence: A British Prehistory
Priya Satia
Associate Professor of Modern British History
Stanford University
Constructing Interests and Expertise: The OSS and the Origins of Middle East Studies, 1940-1945
Osamah Khalil
Assistant Professor, History
Syracuse University
OSS and South Asia
12:00pm EDT
Lunch
1:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Second Panel
Connecting Wartime Anthropology’s Trajectories with the Birth of Area Studies
David Price
Professor
St. Martin's University
'Voice' and 'Exit' in Anthropology's Transition from War to Peace
Peter Mandler
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Bailey College Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge
The Anthropology in Nehru's Interventions: Swaraj, Hill Tribes, Comintern, the UN, and Bandung
John Kelly
Professor
University of Chicago
4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Third Panel
Soviet Studies from War to Cold War
David Engerman
Professor of History
Brandeis University
The Rise of Policy Institutes in the United States, 1945-1973
Bruce Kuklick
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
From International Relations—Back When 'International Relations' Meant 'Race Relations'—to Area Studies
Robert Vitalis
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Participants
- Priya Satia Associate Professor of Modern British History Stanford University
- Osamah Khalil Assistant Professor, History Syracuse University
- Nicholas Dirks Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History Columbia University
- David Price Professor St. Martin's University
- Peter Mandler Professor of Modern Cultural History, Bailey College Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College University of Cambridge
- John Kelly Professor University of Chicago
- David Engerman Professor of History Brandeis University
- Bruce Kuklick Professor University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Vitalis Professor University of Pennsylvania