Interracial Intimacies Symposium
Day 1: April 18
8:30am-9:00am. Breakfast
9:00am-9:15am. Welcome and introductory remarks
9:15am-10:15am. Keynote Address: Doris Garraway, Northwestern University, "The Libertine Colony from Saint-Domingue to Haiti"
10:15am-10:30am. Break
10:30am-12:00pm. Panel 1. Mixed Unions and the State
Chair: Thomas Holt, University of Chicago
Andrew Dyrli Hermeling, Lehigh University, “Behind Closed Doors: Unspoken Interracial Sex and Diplomacy in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1765”
Houssine Alloul, University of Antwerp, “Belgian Diplomats and their Ottoman Spouses Reflections on Cross-National, Cross-Denominational, and Cross-Faith Marriages (and their Inhibition) during the 19th Century”
Sarah Emily Duff, Colby College, “Race, Sex, and Citizenship: Debating the Age of Consent in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa”
Jessica Namakkal, Duke University, “Untying Race, Caste, Gender and Nation: Interracial Marriage in the Age of Decolonization”
12:00pm-1:00pm--Lunch break
1:00pm-2:30pm. Panel 2. Racialized Desire of the “Other”
Chair: Doris Garraway, Northwestern University
Tessie Liu, Northwestern University, “Intimacy and Distance at the Bal Nègre in Interwar Paris”
Michael Vann, California State University, Sacramento, “Sex and the Colonial City: Racial Hierarchies and Geographies of Desire in French Hanoi”
Jennifer Boittin, Pennsylvania State University, “‘I am like a madwoman, lost in the world:’ Expressing Love and Desire in the French Empire”
Ruti Talmor, Pitzer College, “From desire to kinship, imagination to reality: Foreign women, Ghanaian men, and Interracial Love”
2:30pm-3:00pm. Break
3:00pm-4:30pm. Panel 3. Interracial Intimacy from the Non-White Perspective
Chair: Ramon Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
Lionel Larré, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, “‘Published to an Indian’: When the intimate turns political, or the role of intermarriages in Cherokee-US politics”
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University, “Black Hawaiians: Black and Native Intimacies within the context of Militarized Colonialism”
Chie Ikeya, Rutgers University, “Illegible Intimacies: Inter-Asian Belongings and Estrangements in Colonial Southeast Asia”
Christine Peralta, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, “The Interracial Intimacy of Filipino Migrants in Interwar Chicago: Reinterpreting Paul Cressey’s The Taxi Dance Hall within a U.S. Imperial Framework”
4:30pm-5:00pm. Reception with light refreshments
5pm--8:00pm. Private dinner for symposium participants (keynote speakers, presenters, chairs, and organizers)
Day 2: April 19
8:30am-9:00am. Breakfast and Coffee
9:00am-10:00am. Keynote Address: Sarah Kovner, Columbia University, "Bodies in Captivity: Allied Men under Japanese Rule"
10:00am-10:15am. Break
10:15am-11:45am. Panel 4. Interracial Encounters during and after World War II
Chair: Sarah Kovner, Columbia University
Caroline Séquin, University of Chicago, “Sex and Love across the Color Line in Wartime France, 1939-1945”
Masako Endo, Rowan University, “The Stigmatized of the U.S. Occupation of Japan: Japanese Women Consorting with Foreign Men and Mixed-Blood Children”
Julia Woesthoff, DePaul University, “Pathologizing Marriage to Muslim Men in Postwar West Germany”
Sonia Gomez, University of Chicago, “Afro-Asian Intimacy in Jim Crow Tokyo”
11:45am-1:00pm. Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm. Panel 5. Sex and Beyond: Interracial Intimacy and the Domestic Sphere
Chair: Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
Deirdre Lyons, University of Chicago, “Interracial Families, Power, and the Colonial State in the Plantation Household, c. 1815-1848”
Satyasikha Chakraborty, Rutgers University, “From Bibis to ayahs: Interracial intimacies in colonial South Asia”
Nat Illumine, Afropean, “A Political Minefield: Transracial Adoption Policy and the ‘Mixed Race Condition”
Matthew Foreman, Northwestern University, “Eurasian Degeneracy and the Politics of Exclusion in Pre-War British Hong Kong, 1842-1945”
2:30pm: Closing Remarks
3:00pm: Reception with light refreshments
8:30am-9:00am. Breakfast
9:00am-9:15am. Welcome and introductory remarks
9:15am-10:15am. Keynote Address: Doris Garraway, Northwestern University, "The Libertine Colony from Saint-Domingue to Haiti"
10:15am-10:30am. Break
10:30am-12:00pm. Panel 1. Mixed Unions and the State
Chair: Thomas Holt, University of Chicago
Andrew Dyrli Hermeling, Lehigh University, “Behind Closed Doors: Unspoken Interracial Sex and Diplomacy in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1765”
Houssine Alloul, University of Antwerp, “Belgian Diplomats and their Ottoman Spouses Reflections on Cross-National, Cross-Denominational, and Cross-Faith Marriages (and their Inhibition) during the 19th Century”
Sarah Emily Duff, Colby College, “Race, Sex, and Citizenship: Debating the Age of Consent in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa”
Jessica Namakkal, Duke University, “Untying Race, Caste, Gender and Nation: Interracial Marriage in the Age of Decolonization”
12:00pm-1:00pm--Lunch break
1:00pm-2:30pm. Panel 2. Racialized Desire of the “Other”
Chair: Doris Garraway, Northwestern University
Tessie Liu, Northwestern University, “Intimacy and Distance at the Bal Nègre in Interwar Paris”
Michael Vann, California State University, Sacramento, “Sex and the Colonial City: Racial Hierarchies and Geographies of Desire in French Hanoi”
Jennifer Boittin, Pennsylvania State University, “‘I am like a madwoman, lost in the world:’ Expressing Love and Desire in the French Empire”
Ruti Talmor, Pitzer College, “From desire to kinship, imagination to reality: Foreign women, Ghanaian men, and Interracial Love”
2:30pm-3:00pm. Break
3:00pm-4:30pm. Panel 3. Interracial Intimacy from the Non-White Perspective
Chair: Ramon Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
Lionel Larré, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, “‘Published to an Indian’: When the intimate turns political, or the role of intermarriages in Cherokee-US politics”
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University, “Black Hawaiians: Black and Native Intimacies within the context of Militarized Colonialism”
Chie Ikeya, Rutgers University, “Illegible Intimacies: Inter-Asian Belongings and Estrangements in Colonial Southeast Asia”
Christine Peralta, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, “The Interracial Intimacy of Filipino Migrants in Interwar Chicago: Reinterpreting Paul Cressey’s The Taxi Dance Hall within a U.S. Imperial Framework”
4:30pm-5:00pm. Reception with light refreshments
5pm--8:00pm. Private dinner for symposium participants (keynote speakers, presenters, chairs, and organizers)
Day 2: April 19
8:30am-9:00am. Breakfast and Coffee
9:00am-10:00am. Keynote Address: Sarah Kovner, Columbia University, "Bodies in Captivity: Allied Men under Japanese Rule"
10:00am-10:15am. Break
10:15am-11:45am. Panel 4. Interracial Encounters during and after World War II
Chair: Sarah Kovner, Columbia University
Caroline Séquin, University of Chicago, “Sex and Love across the Color Line in Wartime France, 1939-1945”
Masako Endo, Rowan University, “The Stigmatized of the U.S. Occupation of Japan: Japanese Women Consorting with Foreign Men and Mixed-Blood Children”
Julia Woesthoff, DePaul University, “Pathologizing Marriage to Muslim Men in Postwar West Germany”
Sonia Gomez, University of Chicago, “Afro-Asian Intimacy in Jim Crow Tokyo”
11:45am-1:00pm. Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm. Panel 5. Sex and Beyond: Interracial Intimacy and the Domestic Sphere
Chair: Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
Deirdre Lyons, University of Chicago, “Interracial Families, Power, and the Colonial State in the Plantation Household, c. 1815-1848”
Satyasikha Chakraborty, Rutgers University, “From Bibis to ayahs: Interracial intimacies in colonial South Asia”
Nat Illumine, Afropean, “A Political Minefield: Transracial Adoption Policy and the ‘Mixed Race Condition”
Matthew Foreman, Northwestern University, “Eurasian Degeneracy and the Politics of Exclusion in Pre-War British Hong Kong, 1842-1945”
2:30pm: Closing Remarks
3:00pm: Reception with light refreshments
