Undergraduate History Conference
May 25, 2023
10:00am – 4:00pm
Humanities Gateway 1030
Please join the Department of History for the ninth annual Undergraduate History Conference. At this event, a group of undergraduate historians will share their research on a wide and exciting range of topics. Questions? Contact Samantha Engler at englers@uci.edu
Session 1, 10:00am
Kayla Hoang “Nailing the Business: Intergenerational Influences of Vietnamese Manicurists in Orange County”
Alysa Park, “Marie and Mary: Early 20th-Century Korean American women”
Ben Fuller, “Fiume and its Inhabitants: Stateless Fiume in the Popular Imagination”
Session 2, 12:00pm
Angel de Jesus Castillo, "Before and After: Perspectives on Time and Temporality in Late Antique Rome"
Jacob Rodriguez, "Romani and Hibernensis: Shaping the Early Irish Church"
Kevin Qin, “Together for Understanding: People-to-People Diplomacy between Japan and Asia”
Dilruba Asici, "Silencing opposition: The erosion of democratic values and human rights in Turkey"
Session 3, 2:00pm
Spiro Sun, “Our Prelates are Hanged, not Shot: Orthodox Christian Resistance Against the Holocaust in Greece”
Jessica Ortiz, “The Victor’s Victims: The Reality of War-Time Rape in WW2 Germany"
Catherine Johnson, “Assimilation, Education, and “Canadianization:” Polish Immigrant Communities and the Manitoba Schools Question”
Lily Amidon, “History (Podcasts) For All: Democratizing and Diversifying the Field of History”