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Kate BjorkPresentations and Conference Papers-- "Guerras punitivas," paper presented at international conference on "Juárez-Martí-Lincoln en el Alma de Nuestra América," Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México, October 15-17, 2009 "Political and Personal dynamics in Post-Emancipation societies as reflected in Matthew Lopez’s play The Whipping Man," Penumbra Theater Symposium, Macalester College, March 2, 2009 "Punitive Expeditions on the Shifting Frontiers of Empire," paper presented at conference on "Imperial Designs: New scholarship and Perspectives on the U.S. in the World," Purdue University, September 11-14, 2008 Invited panelist at conference on "College Teaching that Promotes Active Learning," Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Chicago, June 1, 2007 "Homesteading in the Philippines," paper to be presented at University of Nebraska conference "Homesteading Reconsidered," Lincoln, Nebraska, May 17-19, 2007 “Property and Empire: Frontier Legal Institutions and U.S. sovereignty at home and abroad,” Social Science History Association meetings, Portland, Oregon, November 3-6, 2005 “Prairie Imperialists,” paper presented to the Colonial History Workshop, History Department, University of Minnesota, April 29, 2005 “The Influence of Frontier Institutions on U.S. Colonial Administration in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1909,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 18-21, 2004 “Population Growth, Urbanization, and Migration in the Americas: An Historical Perspective,” talk given to Quantitative Methods for Public Policy (Math/Econ 108) class at Macalester College, November 4, 2004 “Revolution and Constitution-making in France and Haiti,” talk given to Anthropology of Law class at Macalester College, April 11, 2003 “Secret Agents of Globalization,” International Roundtable Series, Hamline University, September 12, 2003 “Precursors to Globalization in the Caribbean: Bringing the Globe back in,” International Roundtable Series, Hamline University, September 13, 2002 “Kinship of All Sentient Beings? American attitudes towards (other) animals: an historical perspective,” Sri Lanka Foundation and University of Colombo Conference, Colombo, April 4-5, 2002 “Comparative Colonialism: topics in Society and History,” seminar series, Sociology Department, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, March and April, 2002 “Changing Legal Regimes in ‘twice-colonized’ Colonies,” Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 15-18, 2001 “When Empires Change Hands: Transformations in Civil Law in Puerto Rico and the Philippines after 1898,” World History Association meetings, Boston, June 22-25, 2000 “Ethnography and History: writing about the fieldwork experience,” Anthropology Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, March 6, 2000 “Mexico and the Silver Trade,” American Historical Association meetings, Chicago, January 6-9, 2000 “Policing the Public: Regulating Labor and Leisure in the U.S. Empire, 1898-1909,” Social Science History Association meetings, Chicago, November 19-22, 1998 “Defining the Colonial Sphere: Regulating Leisure in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after 1898,” paper presented at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies summer research seminar on “Legacies of 1898,” Iowa City, June 15-July 3, 1998 “Race and the Right Kind of Island: Immigration and Citizenship in Cuba and Hawaii, 1898-1909,” Pacific Centuries Conference, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, April 24-26, 1998 “The Political Economy of Inter-colonial trade in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1640,” American Historical Association, Seattle, January 8-11, 1998 “Rehabilitating the Corregidor de Indios: Recent trends in the Economic History of Latin America,” Macalester College, Latin American Studies lecture series, April 24, 1997 “'Rivalry of Rogues': The Manila Galleon Trade and Intra-colonial Relations between the Philippines and New Spain (Mexico), 1565- 1815,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 19-21, 1996 “Progressivism and Popular Evolutionism: U.S. Efforts to Legislate Morality in Puerto Rico and Cuba, 1898-1917,” paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association meeting in Washington, D.C., September 28, 1995 “Paradoxes of Empire: the Bureau of Insular Affairs’ Labor and Immigration Policy towards Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1909,” American Historical Association, Chicago, January 5-8, 1995 “National Sport or Brutalizing Spectacle: Colonial Ideology and Public Controversy over Cockfighting in Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico,” Conference on Reconstructing lo popular: Culture, Identity and the State in Latin America, University of Chicago, September 24, 1994 “Puerto Rican Migration to Hawaii, 1900-1921: Contract Labor in the U.S. Empire,” Conference on Slavery, Emancipation and Post emancipation Societies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 28-29, 1989
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