From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories
Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 │8:00AM – 5:00PM │BUNCHE HALL 6275
8:00am – 8:15am
Welcoming Remarks (Check-In and Continental Breakfast)
8:15am – 9:50am
Panel 1: Formations of National Identity in an International Context
Chair: Jade Quintero
Gordon Nenadovic, “Philip II and Athenian Rhetoric”
Sareen Ishanyan, “German Romantic Conceptions of Human-Nature Relations: Avant La Lettre Ecological Thinking and the Dangers of Anthropogenic Activity”
James Nee, “State Narratives of Kazakh/stani Identity, 1925-2019”
Amber Thompson, “After Incarceration: Little Tokyo and Life for Japanese Americans”
Alfred Scott, “From the Local to the Global: FESMAN ’66 and the Birth of Modern African Identity”
Discussants: Erdem Ilter & Michael Matthews
9:55am – 11:15am
Panel 2: Politics, Activism, and Race
Chair: Delanie Moreland
Kaelyn Apple, “Fleeing to the ‘Enemy’: A Revisionist Study of the Book of Negroes, The British Offer of Freedom, and Virginia’s Runaway Slaves”
Celia Janes, “From Anarchy to Assimilation: The Fragmentation of Italian American Radicalism in the 1920s”
Rachel Sass, “UCLA Jewish Activism: A Case Study on the American Jewish Community and Progressive Politics from the Six Day War to the Formation of the BDS Movement”
Sophia Yang, “The Korean American Experience During the Los Angeles Riots: A Community Reborn Through the Fire”
Discussant: Peter Chesney
11:20am – 12:10pm
Panel 3: Feminist Voices
Chair: Emily Luong
Delanie Moreland, “A Lover of Her Sex: Mary Astell and Feminist Thinking in Early Modern England”
Nyala Tringali-Carbado, “Women in the Black Panther Party: An Intersectional Analysis”
Discussant: Marissa Jenrich
12:15pm – 1:00pm
Lunch (Lunch will be provided to presenters & discussants. Other guests should bring brown bag lunch)
1:10pm – 2:00pm
Keynote: Katherine Marino, “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement”
2:05pm – 3:20pm
Panel 4: Obstacles and Challenges to National Growth
Chair: Victoria Sheber
Erik Salazar, “Healers of a Changing World: Rural Medical Response in Central Mexico Amidst the 1850 Cholera Epidemic”
Christian Choe, “Growing Pains: Corporate Rivalry as the Catalyst for Innovation in Business History”
Therese Boles, “Nigerian and Biafran Perspectives on Humanitarian Aid During the 1967-1970 War”
James Marshall, “A Failure to Adapt”
Discussant: Rebeca Martinez
3:20pm – 3:35pm
Break (Light refreshments will be provided)
3:40pm – 4:45pm
Panel 5: Specters and Legacies of Socialism
Chair: Christian Choe
Hongyi Yu, “Doomed Alliance: The Party-state and Chinese Intellectuals from the Perspective of Everyday Life, 1949-1951”
Jade Quintero, “American Print Perspectives of Soviet Youth Counterculture”
Kyle Glick, “The Smoke and the Stone: History, Politics and Memory in Post-Soviet Memorial Space”
Discussant: Roii Ball
4:50pm – 5:00pm
Closing Remarks
Organized by the History Undergraduate Advisory Board, sponsored by the Department of History, and with the support of the History Graduate Student Association
