This roundtable, organized by the Tufts Transnational Studies Working Group, brings together a group of leading practitioners of transnational studies across disciplines to discuss the state of the field. The aim of this roundtable is to probe, in detail, the articulation of transnational approaches in current research, and to pose a set of productive questions to assist work in the future. Instead of discussing the potentials of transnational approaches in theory
or in the abstract, the aim of this roundtable is to reflect upon the
problems and challenges of transnational approaches in the current practices of the panelists.
Each panelist will speak for 15 to 20 minutes on the main features of their current research, the trends in their own discipline they are critically engaging with, as well as the challenges and problems that have arisen from adopting transnational approaches in their own specific work in terms of the need for new methods or theoretical frameworks, the need for more travel time and specialized abilities to conduct multi-site research, or even the need to navigate within changing scholarly and political climates. We will address the contributions that distinctive disciplinary approaches bring to a dialogue on transnational studies. And we also will discuss what new
research programs may lie at the intersection between transnational studies and the digital humanities.
Participants include:
Ryan Centner, Tufts University, Sociology
Radiclani Clytus, Tufts University, English
Gregory Crane, Tufts University, Classics
David Ekbladh, Tufts University, History
Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham, Geography
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, Sociology
Francoise Lionnet, UCLA, French and Francophone Literatures
Kris Manjapra, Tufts University, History
Werner Sollers, Harvard University, English Department
Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College, History
Ichiro Takayoshi, Tufts University, English
Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University, History
