GC History Program Graduate Student Conference Schedule
Friday, March 15, 2013 - CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409
Event Schedule
8:00-8:15am — Coffee and Welcome
8:15-9:45am – Contested Identities, Contested Spaces: Missionaries, Education, and Homosexuality in Modern Europe
- Kyle Francis, “Religious Orders, Religious Disorder: Catholic Missionaries in Colonial Algeria”
- Megan Brown, “‘Une solidarité naturelle’: French Schoolmistresses and the Suffering Community, 1914-1918”
- Christopher Ewing, “Crossing the Gap: Exploring the Historiography of Homosexuality in Germany and the Generation Gap of 1969”
Commentator: Gary Wilder
9:45-10:00am — Break
10:00-11:30am – How Official?: Slavery, the AARP, and Kissenger in American History
- John Blanton, “The Properties of Subjecthood: Slavery and Property in Anglo-American Law and Politics, 1640-1689”
- Ben Hellwege, “‘To serve, and not to be served’: The AARP and the Origins of Medicare, 1958-1965”
- Micki Kaufman, “‘Everything On Paper Will Be Used Against Me’: A Computational Analysis of Henry A. Kissinger’s Vietnam-Era Correspondence”
Commentator: Martin Burke
11:30am-12:45pm — Break
12:45-2:15pm — The Politicts of Age: Infants, Children, and Adolescents in History
- Diana Moore, “Figli Degli Innocenti: A Historiographical Overview of Infant Abandonment in Italy”
- Christopher Morell, “Children in the Historiography of Urban Latin America”
- Chelsea Schields, “‘Combating the Sensuality of the Youth’: Towards a New Sexual Normalcy in the Dutch Vice Law Debates of 1911”
Commentator: David Troyansky
2:15-2:30pm — Break
2:30-4:30pm – Breaking Borders: Transnational Approaches to History
- Nick Cross, “Tarentum and Sparta: A Typical Alliance”
- David Gillespie, “The Whale Ship as a Borderland”
- Arman Azimi, “Reza Khan’s Gambit: The Ouster of Sheikh Khaz’al and the Emergence of the Pahlavi Dynasty”
- Andrew Shield, “Migration and Homosexuality in Europe, 1960-1980”
Commentator: Simon Davis
4:45-6:00pm — Reception, Room 5114
