Program 2026-2027

Brooke L. Blower (Boston University)

Flying for Refuge: Europe’s Unwed Mothers and Birthright Citizenship at the US Border, 1880s–1920s

Bastiaan Bouwman (Utrecht University)

‘Why Do They Fear to Return?’: Haitian Refugees, Amnesty International, and Rights-Based Litigation in the United States, 1973-1980

Frédéric Heurtebize (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Constrained Engagement: US Labor and Portugal’s Democratic Transition (1974–1975)

Aimée Plukker (Center for Presidential History, SMU)

Destination Europe: Cold War Transatlantic Tourism and the Making of ‘the West’

Hélène Quanquin (University of Lille / IUF)

Feminisms Without Children: Childlessness, Feminist Activism and Kinships in the United States, 1830s–1920s

Matteo Rossi (Fondazione 1563 / University of Turin)

The Artifice of Accumulation: Henry Carey’s Political Economy in the Making of American Capitalism

Sarah E. Naramore (University of Edinburgh)

Transatlantic Negotiations: American and European Interpretations of Disease

Katharina Wiedlack (University of Vienna)

‘When Uncle Sam Sent Me to Alaska’: Entangled Imperialisms and Native Resistance at the Turn of the 20th Century

Emilie Cunning (Emory University)

Borders of Freedom: How Europe Became Contested Territory for Amnesty Politics during the US War in Vietnam

Suzanne Enzerink (University of St. Gallen)

From Race Suicide to the Great Replacement: Europe and the United States in a Century of Dialogue and Exclusion