2018 History Graduate Student Conference

Department: History

Date and Time: April 27, 2018 | 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Event Location: Doheny A

Event Details


2018 HGSA Graduate Conference
April 27th, 2018 – University of California, Irvine

The UCI History Graduate Student Association invites you to its 2018 conference, Living History: Understanding the Past Through the Present, on Friday, April 27th in Doheny A at the UCI Student Center. This year's conference features a broad range of research topics, and includes a Career Diversity Panel and keynote from Dr. Alice Wexler. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Keynote Speaker:
Alice Wexler
Historian of Medicine and Author of Mapping Fate:  A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Disease (1996) and The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008)

Schedule
8:15 - 8:45am, Registration
8:45 - 8:55am, Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:20am, Reframing North American Experience (Panel 1)
    UCI Faculty Chair: Allison Perlman
  • Built to Order: Violence, Border Enforcement, and the Construction of the Tortilla Curtain, 1978-1979 (Katie Hill, University of California, Irvine)
  • 1937: A Progressive Image of Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (Leopoldo Pena, University of California, Irvine)
  • Something Out of the Ordinary (Ricardo Scheller, San Diego State University)
  • Mediating the Tragedy of Removal: Federal Officials, Native Peoples and the Expansion of Federal Indian Health Care Policy, 1832-1859 (Kelly Silva, University of California, San Diego)
10:25am - 12:00pm, Career Diversity Panel
    Graduate Student Chair: Stephanie Narrow
  • Jana Remy, Chapman University
  • Josh Garrett-Davis, The Autry Museum of the American West
  • Jessica Christian, UCI History Project
12:00-12:30, Catered Lunch from Mendocino Farms

12:30-1:30pm, Keynote from Professor Alice Wexler

1:40 - 2:40pm, Culture Wars in Chinese History
    UCI Faculty Chair: Emily Baum
  • Models, Martyrs, and Miscreants: The Making of Communist China’s “New Child,” 1938-1948 (Kyle David, University of California, Irvine)
  • Reimagining History and Rebellion: Yu Wanchun’s Fiction Sequel Dangkou Zhi (Quell the Bandits) (Henry Lem, University of California, Irvine)
  • The Campaign of Criticizing Lin Biao and Confucius in Qufu (Rong Kong, University of California, Irvine)
2:50 - 3:50pm, Memories of Modern Europe
    UCI Faculty Chair: Susan Morrissey
  • Imperialist who Fear the Empire: The Austria, Croatia and the Origin of the 1914 War Enthusiasm,1911-1916 (Michael Kenny, University of California, San Diego)
  • Carving an Identity: The Monument Aux Morts and National Sentiment in Interwar Strasbourg (Andrew Richter, University of California, Irvine)
  • Knowledge Production, Power, and Genocide: Documenting the Holocaust from a Position of Privilege (John Barruzza, Syracuse University)
4:00 - 5:00pm, Women in the Americas: The Private and Political
    UCI Faculty Chair: Rachel O’Toole
  • The Committee of Correspondence: The Unconventional Methods of American Women in Politics and International Relations during the Early Cold War, 1952-1969 (Amanda Schumaker, San Diego State University)
  • Ayacucho’s Mirror: Female Senderistas in Lima (Romina Samplina, University of California, Irvine)
  • The Fantasy World of Household Appliances Advertising in Chile, 1960 - 1970 (Javiera Letelier, University of California, Irvine)