Speakers

PANEL I: “The Right to Self-Determination: Ever-Contested, Ever-Changing”

Lauri Mälksoo is a Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu

Tony Wood a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies

Sarath Pillai is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Chicago

Chair: Jonathan Wyrtzen is an Associate Professor of Sociology, History, and International Affairs at Yale University

PANEL II: “Revolutionary Internationalisms”

Allan E.S. Lumba is an Assistant Professor of history at Virginia Tech

Zaib un Nisa Aziz is a PhD candidate in history at Yale University

Yasser Ali Nasser is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Chicago

Chair: Jennifer Pitts is Professor of Political Scienc and the Committe on Social Thought at the University of Chicago

PANEL III: “Resolution 1514 Up Against Empire”

Eva-Maria Muschik is an Assistant Professor in Development Studies from a Global History Perspective at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna

Aden Knapp is a PhD candidate in history at Harvard University

Olivier Barsalou is a Professor of Law at the University of Quebec in Montreal

Nazmul S. Sultan is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge  

Chair: Kalyani Ramnath is a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at the Center for History and Economics and Lecturer at Harvard University

PANEL IV: “Self-Determination in Religious Thought”

Udi Greenburg is an Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth University

Charlotte Walker-Said is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York

Daniel Rober is an Associate Lecturer in Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University

Chair: Josiah Brownell is an Associate Professor in Social Science & Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute

PANEL V: “The Right to Self-Determination & Development”

Sara Lorenzini is an Associate Professor of International History at the School of International Studies of the University of Trento

Raymond Craib is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University

Vivien Chang is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD candidate in history at the University of Virginia

Chair: David Engerman is the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History at Yale University

PANEL VI: “Self-Determination in the Global North”

Brad Simpson is an Associate Professor of History and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut

Ned Richardson-Little is an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Erfurt

Joel Wendland-Liu is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University

Chair: Tim Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

PANEL VII: “Speaking Back to the UN: The Language of Self-Determination”

Alanna O’Malley is Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice at Leiden University

Jose Juan Perez Melendez is an Assistant Professor History at the University of California, Davis

Lydia Walker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for History at Leiden University

Chair: Umut Özsu is an Associate Professor in Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University

PANEL VIII: “Self-Determination, Aggression & War”

Boyd van Dijk is a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a visiting fellow in Wolfson College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge

Ibrahim Khan is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Chicago

Leyla Drake is a PhD candidate in history at Uppsala University

Chair: Charlotte Kiechel is a PhD candidate in history at Yale University