Kaitlin Findlay is a PhD candidate in the History Department. Her research examines the enactment of international norms of 'humane' confinement in the early twentieth century. Drawing from international, state, and community archives in five countries, Kaitlin examines the history of international humanitarian law, the politics of internationalism, and liberal empire. It interrogates the activity of international actors, like the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross and Spanish consular officials, in monitoring detention practices. Drawing on insights from memory studies, Kaitlin asks what lessons the later forgetting of this international history in public commemoration might lend for understanding other histories of forced displacement in the twentieth century.