THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES
University of Toronto

Thursday, May 30, 2002

This event will take place at the Munk Centre for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place (corner of Hoskins).

You are warmly invited to attend for all or part of the day -- no formal registration is required, but as we are providing lunch and refreshments we would be grateful if you responded via email if you plan on taking part.

Morning Session:

• 9.00
  Coffee and registration
  Munk Centre, South House

• 9.30-11.30
  Team Approaches to Transnational History: The "Two Souths" and the "Italian Women Around the World" Projects
  Munk Centre, South House, Campbell Conference Room
  

  Chair: Michael Wayne, University of Toronto

  Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Women Around the World
  Donna Gabaccia, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto

  Two Souths: Towards a Comparative History of the US South and the Italian Mezzogiorno
  Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland, Galway
  Rick Halpern University of Toronto

  Comments:
  Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida
  Bruce Levine, University of California Santa Cruz
  

Afternoon Session:

• 2.00-4.00
  Reaching Beyond White Supremacy: New Comparative Scholarship on the United States and South Africa
  Munk Centre, South House, Campbell Conference Room
  

  Chair: Steve Rockel, University of Toronto

  "The Hope for White and Black"?: Race, Labour and the State in South Africa and the United States, 1945-56
  Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University
  

  Communists and Black Freedom Movements in South Africa and the United States, 1919-50
  Edward P. Johanningsmeier, Temple University

  Making Men and Making Methods: the Work of Nation in the Ford Empire
  Elizabeth Esch, New York University

  Comments:
  Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University
  Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University

• 4.15-5.00
  Closing Remarks: Jose Moya, UCLA
  Munk Centre, North House, Room 208

Invited Audience participants: Leon Fink, Greg and Linda Kealey, Peter Kolchin, Caroline Waldron Merrithew, Dave Roediger, Stephanie McCurry, Steve Hahn, Jennifer Guglielmo, and Tom Guglielmo.

Further information is available from Rick Halpern at the email address below.