POSTPONED: 3/13 – Program for 10th Annual History Graduate Student Conference
3/17/20 – Unfortunately the reschedule date of April 24th will not be approved. I will update here if there is a new date.
In light of recent decisions by the CUNY administration regarding COVID-19, we will be rescheduling the conference to Friday, April 24th from 9:30am to 6pm. We apologize for the last-minute nature of this announcement.
As it stands now, the program will remain the same, but we will send out an updated version closer to the new date of the conference. We know that the students and faculty involved have worked very hard on this conference, and we hope to see you on April 24th!
All the best,
Stephanie and Sophie
Sign-in, Roundtable 1, Mythbusters: Teaching and Unteaching Historical Narratives
9:30-10:15, Room 5114
Chair: | Sophie Tunney |
Participants: | Madeline DeDe-Panken |
Andrew Kotick | |
Chandni Tariq |
Panel 1, Sex and the State: Women, Reproduction, and the Politics of the Body
10:20-12:00, Room 9206
Chair: | Davide Colasanto |
Papers: | Deena Ecker, Her Body and Her Person: New York City Prostitutes in the Early Twentieth Century |
Marybeth Tamborra, Class and Family in Italian Fascist Housing Settlement Communities (1923-1943) | |
Riley Kellogg, Faith Commitments and Abortion Law in the United States: Examining Religious and Secular Voices in the Roe and Doe Cases | |
Yanara Schmacks, “Motherhood is Beautiful”: Maternalism in the West German, New Women’s Movement between Eroticization and Ecological Protest | |
Commenting: | Professor Kathleen McCarthy, CUNY Graduate Center |
Round Table 2, Unravelling the Archive: Research in the Digital Age
12:00-1:00, Room 5114
Chair: | Carli Snyder |
Participants: | Professor Philip Napoli, Brooklyn College |
Kate Kelley | |
Stephanie Makowski |
Lunch Break
1:00-1:45, Room 5114
Panel 2, Culture, Aesthetics, and Spectacle: The Formation of Societies
1:45-3:00, Room 9206
Chair: | Andrew Kotick |
Papers: | Ladi Dell’aira, “Tragic Advertising”: Newspapers and the Business of Nineteenth Century Ballooning |
Kate Kelley, Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: Romeo and Juliet in a Divided Germany | |
Kikuko Tanaka, An Inch Away from your Body: Aesthetic State and Kuki Shuzo’s The Structure of Iki | |
Commenting: | Professor Julia Sneeringer, Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center |
Panel 3, History on the Road: Transportation, Colonization, and Society
1:45-3:00, Room 5489
Chair: | Helena Yoo Roth |
Papers: | Oscar Aponte, The Putumayo Road: Capuchin Missionaries and State Formation in the Colombian Amazon, 1912-1932 |
Purbasha Das, Transformation of Transport in Madras City (c.1900s-c.1940s) | |
Thompson Wells, “In a Desolate and Foreign Land”: Byzantine Cross-Cultural Attitudes on the Road to Nemanjić Serbia (Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries) | |
Commenting: | Professor Simon Davis, Bronx Community College, CUNY Graduate Center |
Panel 4, Power, Conflict, and Identity: Middle East Politics in the 20th century
3:15-4:30, Room 5489
Chair: | Cody Nager |
Panel: | Esther Adaire, Facing the Inferno: German Memory Politics During the Gulf War |
Rebecca Irvine, Oil, Foreign Capital and the Evolution of Provincial Iraq: The Case of the Iraq Petroleum Company | |
Idan Liav, Pawns in Limbo: Palestinian Fate in Israeli Cabinet Discussions of June 1967 | |
Commenting: | Professor Louis Fishman, Brooklyn College |
Panel 5, Colonial Spaces and Contested Freedoms: Racism, Slavery and Identity Formation
3:15-4:30, Room 9206
Chair: | Madeline DeDe-Panken |
Panel: | Chandni Tariq, “Please Mr. Tiger, don’t eat me up!”: The Black Image and The Story of Little Black Sambo |
Israel Ben-Porat, New Canaanite Bondage: Biblical Slavery Law in Early Massachusetts | |
Jessica Georges, Brave New World: Women and Gender in Nineteenth Century Liberia | |
Commenting: | Professor Gunja SenGupta, Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center |
Roundtable 3, Freedom of Speech Questioned: The Politics and Policing of Academia
4:45-6:00, Room 5114
Chair: | Adam Kocurek |
Participants: | Professor Joan Scott, CUNY Graduate Center |
Micki Kaufmann | |
Idan Liav |
Refreshments and Reception
6:00, Room 5114
Food Served Thanks to the Generous Support of DSC