SEWHA 2019

31st Annual Meeting Southeast World History Association

November 15-16, 2019 Athens, GA

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Friday, November 15, 2019

8:30 – 2:30 Conference Registration

9:00 – 9:45 Twentieth Century East Asia Ian Christopher Fletcher, Georgia State University - Moderator

“World Illustrated: Japanese-made World Maps from the Early 1930s”

Masako Racel, Kennesaw State University

“Defeat in Victory: The Memory of South Korea’s Democratization Movement in Hwang Sok-yong’s Old Garden”

Sung Shin Kim, University of North Georgia

10:00 – 10:45 Slavery in World History – I

Moderator TBA

“Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (Cameroon)” Ndip Egbe Peter Ndumbe, University of Buea, Cameroon

“Slavery and Slave Trade Abolition and its Impact on Political and Economic Development

of Nupe (Bida Emirate) up to 1901” Salahu Mohammad Lawal, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai

11:00 – 11:45 Slavery in World History – II

Doug Sofer, Maryville College - Moderator

“Slavery by Another Name – Chinese Indentured Labor to Latin America 1849 -1879” Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University (Emerita)

“Latin America in the Abolition of Slavery in the Western Hemisphere”

James Henderson, Coastal Carolina University (Emeritus)

11:45 – 12:45 LUNCH

Slavery of Europeans and Asians at Open Air Market in Turkey, ca. 1820. Hand-Colored Etching. No Date. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

12:45 – 2:00 Questioning the Place of the State, the Nation, and Religion in World History

Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University (Emerita) - Moderator

Zoroaster, The Magi, and Legitimation of Christianity

Mehdi Estakhr, Alabama State University

Post-Independence Pan-Africanism: A Model of Development or an African Nationalism?

Abdou-Wahabi Abdou, Selcuk University (Turkey) and Lome University (Togo)

Environmental History and the Myths of States: Challenging Civilization Bias in Early World History

Nick Di Liberto, Scholar at Large

2:15 – 5:15 Bringing the World Alive: A Simulation Workshop

Eric Oakley, Kennesaw State University -- Presenter

Saturday, November 16, 2019

1:00 – 2:15 Local History from the American South to the Global South James Henderson, Coastal Carolina University (Emeritus) - Moderator

“Fort Hill, South Carolina”

Madeline McCormick, Clemson University

“The Georgia Connection: The State Partnership Program as Facilitator of Globalization”

Bryant A. Wine, Johns Creek High School (GA)

“Inmate Populations: From Slave Laborers to Hourly Wage Earners”

Brenda Beach, Purdue Global University Russell Fail, Purdue Global University

8:30 – 12:00 Conference Registration

9:00 – 10:00 T.R.R. Cobb House Tour Ashleigh Oatts, Education Coordinator

T.R.R. Cobb House

10:15 – 11:00 SEWHA BUSINESS MEETING

11:00 – 11:45 Southeast Asia in World History

Nick Di Liberto, Scholar at Large - Moderator

“The Multicultural Imprints at Malacca Trading Port (Malaysia) In the Middle Ages” Tran Xuan Hiep, Duy Tan University, Danang (Vietnam)

“Medicine and Plantations:

Colonizing Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Singapore Print Culture” Carey McCormack, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

11:45 – 1:00 LUNCH

2:30 – 4:00 Making Worlds:

Peace, Revolution, Culture, and Communication, 1960s-1980s Masako Racel, Kennesaw State University - Moderator

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days in Atlanta:

Commemoration, Peace, and Solidarity in the Great Speckled Bird, 1968-1976” Ian Christopher Fletcher, Georgia State University

“‘The People Must Defend Themselves, But They Must Not Sacrifice Themselves’: Salvador

Allende, Chilean Exceptionalism, and Solidarity with Vietnamese Self-Determination” Pablo Valenzuela, Kennesaw State University

“The Culture of Festivals in Atlanta during the Long Sixties”

Emily Hunt, University of West Georgia

“Giving Wings to the ‘Triumphant Spirit of Nairobi’: Transnational Feminist Media Networking in the International Decade for Women”

Megan Neary

Nadri Ghulam, Georgia State University – Discussant

4:00 – 4:15 Concluding Remarks

Doug Sofer

President – Southeast World History Association

Image to Right: Wytfliet's Map of the World 1598. Printed in The Scottish Geographical Magazine Vol. XVI, No. 1, 1900. Cover Image: Front Portico and Balcony, T. R. R. Cobb House, 194 Prince Avenue, Athens, Clarke County, GA. L. D. Andrew, Photographer. August 29, 1936. Historic American Buildings Survey. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Reproduction Number: HABS GA,30-ATH,10—3.