Our fall 2009 History Symposium schedule is now available – all are welcome to attend the event’s sessions! Refreshments will be served.
FALL 2009 SYMPOSIUM
University of Mary Washington – Department of History and American Studies
December 4, 2009
GREAT HALL – MEETING ROOMS 1 AND 2
SESSION ONE. 8AM. Rm. 1 – History through Popular Culture
Moderator : Professor Jeffrey McClurken
“We Do it Because We are Compelled”: A Socio-Political Reading of Watchmen — Eric Steigleder
History through Hayao Miyazaki — Ashley Wilkins
No Pressure besides Brilliance: Seattle and the Grunge Scene — Nicholas Nelson
SESSION TWO. 8AM. Rm. 2 – Wartime Memory and Experience
Moderator: Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti
Ulysses S. Grant in American Memory as Represented by Books, Textbooks, and Newspapers — Nicholas Southwell
Deadly Hooves: Cavalry in the American Civil War — Katelyn Harris
Ultra at Normandy — Ellen Fritz
SESSION THREE. 9AM. Rm. 1. Of Sound, Sense, and Sight
Moderator: Professor Susan Fernsebner
Movement in the Lives of Post-Emancipation Southern Blacks and the Old Time Blues — Karleen Kovalcik
Cookery Books: The Cookbooks of Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Eliza Leslie –Lacey Villiva
The Abdülhamid II Photo Collection: Orientalism & Public Image at the End of an Empire — Trish Greene
SESSION FOUR. 9AM. Rm. 2. The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
Moderator: Professor Steven Harris
The Influence of George Wythe, Governor Francis Fauquier, and Dr. William Small on the Mind of Thomas Jefferson — Lauren Greider
A Line Drawn: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and their Writings on Colonial Independence from Great Britain — Jeff Phillips
Burr’s Hand Forced Due to Hamilton’s Actions and the Lasting Legacies of Each Man — Michael Rudmann
SESSION FIVE. 10 AM. Rm. 1. Profound, Prescribed, and Negotiated Femininities
Moderator: Professor Allyson Poska
Feuding the Fairytale: The Contention between “Women’s Lib” and Prescribed Femininity in the Fredericksburg (VA) Free-Lance Star, 1967-1973 — Jessica Kilday
Queen Elizabeth: A Life of Singlehood — Kathleen Adams
SESSION SIX. 10 AM. Rm. 2. Studies of the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and the Vietnam War
Moderator: Professor Emily Moore
“There is No God and Karl Marx is his Prophet”: The Soviet Union’s Interaction with Islam in Central Asia — Anna Lindemann
Soviet Experiences and Soviet Propaganda during World War II — Ashley Scutari
SESSION SEVEN. 11 AM. Rm. 1. Religion, Culture, and Conflict
Moderator: Professor Bruce O’Brien
Bismarck’s German Kulturkampf and its Failure — MacKenzie Murphy
Pope Pius XII, the Catholic Church, and Their Role During the Holocaust and World War Two — Matthew Bean
Jewish Immigrant Women and the First Vargas Regime: Policy and Memory — Lexy DeGraffenreid
SESSION EIGHT. 11 AM. Rm. 2. Ocean Scenes, Architectures, and Diverse Landscapes: Three Studies
Moderator: Professor Claudine Ferrell
The R.M.S. Titanic and Morgan Robertson’s Futility — Tara Lescault
The Maury School: A Historical, Controlled, and Exclusive Landscape — Maura Johnson
Prince William Forest Park: The History of a ‘Submarginal’ People and Land — Alexandra Mayer
SESSION NINE. 1 PM. Rm. 1. Ideology, Militancy, and State Agency
Moderator: Professor Jess Rigelhaupt
The Society of Muslim Brotherhood: Original Ideology – We Are Whatever You Want Us to Be — Sofhia Qamar
The U.S. State Department and the Zionist-American Relationship, 1939-1948 — Alex Valencia
Militants Seize Mecca: The Effects of the 1979 Siege of Mecca Revisited — Marissa Allison
SESSION TEN. 1 PM. Rm. 2. Revolutionary Histories and Figures
Moderator: Professor Porter Blakemore
Propaganda During the French Revolution: The Techniques Used to Court the Lower Class — Sarah Carlson
Quakers in the Revolutionary War — Robert King
SESSION ELEVEN. 2 PM. Rm. 1. Of Human Rights, Carnage, and Memory
Moderator: Professor Krystyn Moon
America Reacts: How Americans Responded to the Human Rights Protests of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games — Jonathan Wigginton
America’s Presence in Cambodia: Carnage, Cruelty, and Corruption — Emma Peck
Women and Memories of the Argentine Military Junta: Recreating and Empowering Lives Through Witness Narratives, Fiction, and Testimonios — Caitlin Donnelly
SESSION TWELVE. 2 PM. Rm. 2. Social Movements, Figures, and Faith
Moderator: Professor Carter Hudgins
King’s Northern Protest and the Rise of Black Power: The Legacy of the Chicago Freedom Movement — Surya Kant
Learning Through Experience: Mother Jones Studied as an Organic Intellectual — Timothy Sherrange
Race and Salvation: Afro-Peruvian Mystic’s Journey in Understanding Her Faith — Katherine Schryver
SESSION THIRTEEN. 3 PM. Rm. 1. Three Papers: Heresy, Catholic Queens, and Nicotiana
Moderator: Professor Bruce O’Brien
The Relationship Between Doctrine and Heresy in the Late Antique Period — Andrew Welsh
Catholic Queen vs. Protestant Reformer: The Relationship Between Mary, Queen of Scots, and John Knox — Kari Wilson
The Antebellum South: Society and Tobacco — Amanda Heckenberger
SESSION FOURTEEN. 3 PM. Rm. 2. Epidemics, Technology, and War
Moderator: Professor William Crawley
The Social Effects of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia on African Americans — Heather Greider
The Father of Video Games — Matt Struth
A Brief Exploration of One Year of the Vietnam War through Time and Newsweek — Melissa Graham
