1. Displaced Chinese Scholars, American Cold War University, and the Discourse of Academic Objectivity • Qing Liu, University of Wiscosin-Madison.

2. Migrants and minorities as a security threat: a global long-term perspective • Leo Lucassen, International Institute of Social History (IISH).

3. Contested Citizenship and Defensive Nationalism in Panama and the Dominican Republic • W. Frank Robinson, Vanderbilt University.