The Ph.D. Program in History

at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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Program for the 9th Annual History Graduate Student Conference “New Perspectives in History: Methods, Challenges, and Voices”

RSVPs welcomed at gchistory.annualconference@gmail.com

9th Annual History Graduate Student Conference

“New Perspectives in History: Methods, Challenges, and Voices”

March 15, 2019

9:00-9:55 – Sign-in, Roundtable Discussion, Bagels and Trump: Teaching in the Age of Trump (Room 5114, History Lounge)

Participants:

-Evan Turiano

-Andrew Kotick

-Arinn Amer

 

10:00-11:40 – Panel 1a, Violence and the Use of Memory: The Politicization of Trauma

(Room 5409, DSC space)

Chair: Stephanie Makowski

-Madeline Lafuse, Madame LaLaurie’s Impossible Basement

-Mayaan Brodsky, The (In)credible Madman–The Bombing of Cambodia and Human Rights

-Idan P. Liav, Deir Yassin — A Foundational Moment Contested

-Esther Adaire, Destroying German History: The Work of Heiner Müller as a Challenge to Public Memory

Commentator: Professor Andreas Killen

 

10:00-11:40 – Panel 1b, Constructing Identities in Early America (Room 5414, DSC space)

Chair: Evan Turiano

-Helena Yoo Roth, Entangled in the Communications Networks of the First British Empire: Forsey v. Cunningham and the Stamp Act Crisis in Colonial New York

-Israel Ben-Porat, The Mystery of Judah Monis: Conversion and Religious Identity in Early America

-Cody Nager, Contesting American Citizenship in South Carolina, 1788-9

-Ted Knudsen, The Cosby Affair: Governor Cosby, John Peter Zenger and the Birth of Revolutionary Politics in New York

Commentator: Professor Andrew Robertson

 

11:45-1:00 – Round Table 1, Reconfiguring Transatlantic History: The Globalization of the Field (Room 5114, History Lounge)

Moderator: Sophie Tunney

Participants:

-Professor Gunja SenGupta

-Luke Reynolds

-Helena Yoo Roth

-Miriam Liebman

-Carli Snyder

 

1:00-1:45 – Lunch Break: 5114, History Lounge

 

 

2:00-3:15 – Panel 2a, Cultural Institutions and Modern State building in the 20th Century (Room 5409, DSC Space)  

Chair: Sophie Tunney

-Tamara Maatouk, Youssef Chahine’s Post-1967 Films: A Window onto Egyptian Society Following the Defeat

-Kate Kelley, Moving Forward and Looking Back: Classical Ballet and the Making of an East German National Identity

-Oscar Aponte, A Financially Independent Newspaper: El Tiempo in Colombia, 1911-1940

Commentator: Professor Mary Roldán

 

2:00-3:15 – Panel 2b, Philosophies of History: New Origins of Modern Thought (Room 5414, DSC space)

Chair: Phelim Dolan

-Anastasia Kirtiklis, New Thought or Old: Positioning Annie Payson Call in Neurasthenic America

-Kikuko Tanaka, The Non-Method, Translation, and Understanding: An Old Method Made New for the Intellectual History of Metaphysics

Commentator: Professor David Troyansky

 

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break, Room 5114, History lounge

 

3:30-4:45 – Panel 3a, Reimagining Britain and its Empire (Room 3209)

Chair: Andrew Kotick

-Sam Bussan, “Your Far Off Country”: Psychoanalysis and the Tension of Empire in Interwar India

-Phelim Dolan, Henry Jones and the Networks of Seventeenth-Century Ireland

-Jiwon Han, 1810, the Fall of the “Pillars of the City” and the Napoleonic Wars

Commentator: Professor Timothy Alborn

 

3:30-4:45 – Panel 3b, Queer Activism, Memory, and the Academy (Room 5409, DSC Space)

Chair: Davide Colasanto

-Carli Snyder, “What Questions Do We Need to Ask?”: Gender and Sexuality at the 1983 Women Surviving the Holocaust Conference

-Adam Kocurek, NYC Queer Academics, Institutional Transformation, and the Trials of Labor

-Stefanos Milkidis, Negotiating the Recollected Past: The Making and the Unmaking of Queer Memory in the Historical Narrative

Commentator: Professor Randolph Trumbach

 

4:50-6:00 – Roundtable 2, Transitions in the Field of Gender and History (Room 5114, History Lounge)

Moderator: Stephanie Makowski

Participants:

-Professor Julia Sneeringer

-Davide Colasanto

-Chandni Tariq

-Adam Kocurek

 

6:00 – Refreshments and Reception, Room 5114

Food Served Thanks to the Generous Support of the DSC