Adrian Pole (University of Chester)

“Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades and their Transnational Encounters with the Enemy in Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939 ”

Adrian Pole is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Chester. His research revolutionises our understanding of the International Brigades by placing the transnational fighting unit’s varied encounters with the people, places, politics and culture of civil-war Spain at the centre of its analysis, rather than treating them as secondary to the ‘main business’ of waging antifascist war. His article on the International Brigades and Spanish Children won honourary mention for the Contemporary European History Prize in 2022.

Lena Christophe (University of Vienna)

”Political and Transnational Solidarity and the International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam ”

Lena Christophe is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and part of the research group GLORE – “Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons Learned from the Postwar (1945-1951).” In her dissertation project, she works on the resettlement of displaced persons to and from the Philippines in the immediate years after World War II. Before her PhD, Lena studied International Development (BA) and History (MA) at the University of Vienna and at Monash University, Melbourne. She received the Vienna Global History scholarship for her Masters thesis on “Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam.”In 2024 she will be a research fellow of the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

Liza Hong (Australian National University)

“Transpacific Solidarities – Pantherised Maoism and the Black Panther Party of Australia”

Liza Hongis is a research officer at the Australian National University’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Her research focuses on the transnational and intellectual history of the Australian Black Panther Party and global Maoism across Pasifika. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Economics of East Asia from Ruhr-University Bochum and a Master’s degree in Asian and Pacific Studies from the Australian National University.

Maha Al-Haddad (University of Cambridge)

“Racialised experiences, practices of coloniality, and joint struggles: Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity Networks”

Maha Al-Haddad is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she has also earned her MPhil degree. Her research examines Black- American and Palestinian solidarity networks as they develop and strengthen within the contemporary day, focusing on the commonalities and joint struggles that emerge from shared experiences of racialised violence and which underpin renewed solidarity efforts. Her research also examines the role digital activism has on solidarity networks and the way digital spatialities affect the formation and manifestation of these solidarities.

Joshua Lourence (University of Hawaiʻi)
“Love and Rage:  Reproduction and Politics in Portrayals of  Portuguese Settlers in the Hawaiian-Language press, 1874-1917”
Joshua Lourence is a pre-ABD PhD student at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. His thesis project will explore written and material expressions of identity by the Portuguese community in Hawaiʻi in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lucas Spyropoulos (University of London, Birkbeck)
“Greek Immigration and Settlement in Southern Africa from 1870 to 1915”
Luke Spyropoulos is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London, supported by the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE). He has worked in historical research in southern Africa since 2010, including stints at the Wits History Workshop and at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. His work has focussed on histories of international migration in colonial and post-colonial Africa and studies of racialisation and racism.