*All presentations will take place in the Pavillion Room, Peter Green House*
Tuesday, 5/10:
11:00-11:20 - Emma Kelly, “Standardizing “The History of a Mind:” The Inception of and Attitudes Toward Age-Graded Schooling in the 19th Century Northeastern United States”
Advisor: Howard Chudacoff
11:20-11:40 - Alexandra Blitzer, “Changing the Law, Changing a Community: Lamphere v. Brown University and The Opportunities and Limitations of Legal Remedies for Driving Social Change in the Workplace”
Advisor: Robert Self
11:40-12:00 - Aidan Wang, “Transforming the Schools, Teaching the Teachers: Ted Sizer, Brown University’s Education Department, and the Early Days of the Coalition of Essential Schools
Advisor: Luther Spoehr
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-12:50 - Clara Epstein, “By Means of the Bible It All Began: Liberation Theology in Salvadoran Popular Resistance and the Emergence of the Tucson Sanctuary Movement, 1980-1986”
Advisor: Evelyn Hu-Dehart
12:50-1:10 - Yara Doumani, ““In Sisterhood I Will Remain Strong:” Indigenous Women’s Resistances, Writings, and Relations, 1970s-1980s”
Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa
1:10-1:30 - Isabella Kearns, “Exposed to Moral Danger:” Criminalizing Indigeneity, Sexuality, and Class at the Parramatta Girls Home”
Advisor: Jennifer Lambe
1:30-1:50 - Basil Rodriguez, “The Racialized Application of Mental Health Care: Historical Experiences of Mexican Childhood in California from the 1920s-1970s”
Advisor: Mark Ocegueda
1:50-2:00 Break
2:00-2:20 - Connor Jenkins, “Fear gave speed to our steps”: Slavery’s Hauntings and the Long Lives of Plantation Geographies in Edenton, North Carolina”
Advisor: Françoise Hamlin
2:20-2:40 - Ella Altidor, “Troubling the Ideal Haïtienne: The Life and Afterlife of Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse and the Gender Politics of Haitian Nation-Building (1804-1806)”
Advisor: Emily Owens
2:40-3:00 - Morgan De Lancy, “Belonging in the Heart of Empire: Community, Education, and Care in the Black Supplementary School Movement, 1965-1975”
Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez
Wednesday, 5/11
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:50-1:10 - Emma George, “Engraving Empire: Lubok Prints and Russian Identities from the Enlightenment to Romanticism."
Advisor: Ethan Pollock
1:10-1:30 - Noam Bizan, “Political Dance: American Depictions of U.S.-Soviet Ballet Exchanges, 1966-1979”
Advisor: Ethan Pollock
1:30-1:50 - Katherine Dario, “The Shearer Summer Theater of Oak Bluffs and the Power of Place: The Rise and Resilience of the Black Summer Community on Martha’s Vineyard”
Advisor: Françoise Hamlin
1:50-2:10 Break, Light Refreshments
2:10-2:30 - Akshaan Parikh, “‘Let Us Alone to Die’: Plague Camps in Bombay City, 1896–1902”
Advisor: Hal Cook
2:30-2:50 - Gemma Ryu, “Make heirs for monarchs, and for God decree”: Views of Legitimacy, Succession, and the English Monarchy, 1670-1688”
Advisor: Tim Harris
2:50-3:10 - Tarana Sable, “Fragmented Community in a Colonial City: The Baghdadi Jews of Calcutta in the Late Imperial Period (1880–1935)”
Advisor: Sreemati Mitter
Friday, 5/13
11:45-12:15 Lunch
12:20-12:40 - Sloane Kratzman, “The Witch Trial of The Cunning Woman: The Fragility of Reputation and Power of Knowledge in the 1653 Trial of Anne Bodenham”
Advisor: Tara Nummedal
12:40-1:00 - Nesya Nelkin, ““On Curses and Issues in the Women’s Synagogue”: The Social and Religious Centrality of Women’s Synagogues in Ashkenaz, 1350-1500”
Advisor: Amy Remensnyder
1:00-1:20 - Zoe Boggs, “"We Work as Lesbians": Horizontal Knowledge Production and Labor in Lesbian-Feminist Publishing Collectives, 1974-1985”
Advisor: Robert Self
1:20-1:40 - Isobel McCrum, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Unintended Consequences in Minds, Machines, and History”
Advisor: Holly Case
1:40-2:00 - Max Niles, “Patria Libre: Black Cuban Political Networks and Cultural Politics in a Republican World (1890-1916)”
Advisor: Daniel Rodriguez
2:00-2:20 - Milo Douglas, “Memory and Denial: Confronting the Enduring Legacies of the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide”
Advisor: Omer Bartov
2:20-2:40 - Rebecca Qiu, “The Symphony of the Streets: The Music and Noises of Urban Boston”
Advisor: Seth Rockman
Senior Reception to follow, 4-5:30PM at the Faculty Club