C4: Panel - Imagined Borders and Big Questions: Rethinking Nations in Global Perspective
2025-06-26 , Mezzanine A

Chair: Nicole Magie, University of Olivet

“Fractured Nation: Peripheral Intransigence and the Challenges of an Integrated Pakistan”
Iram Naseer Ahmad, Forman Christian College

“The Concept of ‘Bengal’ and ‘Bangladesh’: Identity and Region Formed and Imagined”
Md. Aksadul Alam, University of Dhaka

“Finlandizing a Soviet Territory: Nation, Culture, Language, and Geopolitics in the Soviet-Finnish Borderlands”
Diego Benning Wang, Princeton University

“Big Questions That Only World History Can Answer”
Rick Szostak, University of Alberta