Seeking panelists and a chairperson for "Race, Labor, and Diaspora" Panel

[adam...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

My name is Adam LoBue, I am a 3rd year PhD student in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am seeking interested parties for a panel broadly focused on the intersections of race, diaspora and labor politics. My areas of specialization are twentieth century East Africa and the Indian Ocean world, with a focus on transnational radical movements and print culture; I am planning on submitting a paper on radical left organizing among multiracial shipping crews in the interwar years with a particular focus on the spaces and texts involved in these processes. I would be most interested in finding panelists working on similar themes in the formerly colonized world, but anyone interested in the themes of the panel more broadly are of course more than welcome. If interested, please do get in touch with me here or by e-mail at lob...@illinois.edu

Best,

Adam

[dlk...@gmail.com]

Hello Adam,

If you are still looking for a chairperson, I would be very interested.  I published a book titled  All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism that looked at how Russian Jewish immigrants carried with them ideas about racial-ethnic identity to build power among a multinational workforce in the American garment industry from the 1910s through the 1930s.  You can contact me best at my gmail account: dlk...@gmail.com.  I am currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Alfred State College.

Best,

Dan

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[adam...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

We now have three participants for this panel proposal, including a chairperson, and are looking for one more participant to round out the panel. Let me know if you are interested at lob...@illinois.edu

Best

Adam

[holger.d...@gmail.com]

Hey Adam,

I would be interested in joining the panel, if there is still room. I am doing research on a new book about non-citizen civilian workers for the U.S. military and could present on labor organizing among war workers in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan and Iraq in the 21st century.

Let me know if that fits your panel theme.

Best,

Holger Droessler (Smith College)

[adam...@gmail.com]

Dear Holger, 

Thank you for reaching out. Your paper sounds like a great fit for the panel so I am happy to have you join! Would you mind sending me your email so that I can coordinate with you and the rest of the panelists?

Best,

Adam

[Jordan F. Norquist]

Dear Adam,

My name is Jordan Norquist and I am a MA graduate student at Portland State University.

My thesis is a comparative analysis of two labor strikes in 1973 in West Germany, with specific focus on Turkish migrant workers. By framing my analysis as a comparison between the two strikes, I demonstrate how detrimental the public's focus upon race, religion, and nationality were for the migrant workers on strike at the Ford factory in Cologne, yet gender served as a successful framework for the predominantly female migrant workers at Pierburg automobile parts factory in Neuss.

My email is jo...@pdx.edu; if I am not too late, I would like to add to your panel.