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Aron Brouwer (UPenn)- “The Pan-Fascist Paradox: How Does a Nationalist- Minded Fascist Think and Act Transnationally?”

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Aron Brouwer is a second year PhD student at Penn focusing on the history and practices of transnational fascism and anti-fascist activism. He received his B.A. and Research M.A. in History from the University of Amsterdam. In his M.A. thesis, Aron examined the Chinese, Dutch, English, French, and Italian translations of Hitler's Mein Kampf and argued that all these translations were rhetorically repackaged and ideologically reframed by the translation-agents involved. Aron's latest article, entitled "'Every Frenchman Must Read This Book': The Impact of Politics and Ideology on the Production, Translation and Dissemination of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in France, 1933-1939," (2019) appeared in Quaerendo (Brill). 

Kimberly White (Upenn) - "Jurisprudence of Conquest: The Reagan Administration’s Use of International Law to Legitimate the U.S.’s 1983 Invasion of Grenada"

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Kimberly White is a second-year doctoral student who studies manifestations of empire, immigration, and citizenship in twentieth century U.S. history. As a citizen of both St. Vincent and the U.S., she is particularly intrigued by the U.S.'s relationship with postcolonial nations and its imperialistic practices in the Caribbean. She wrote her first-year paper on the U.S.’s use of international law to justify its 1983 invasion of Grenada. That paper birthed a sustained interest in using postcolonial theory to scrutinize the ways that U.S. international practices have often reified the hierarchies that post-imperial nations fought hard to reconfigure. Kimberly holds a JD from Berkeley Law and a BA from City University of New York where she interrogated the connections between environmental justice, Black feminism and critical pedagogy.