Senior Honors Seminar Presentations

Everyone is invited to this event, at which some of our best students present the fruits of two quarters of intensive research. Please attend as many presentations or panels as you would like.
Refreshments will be available.

The event will be run in a conference panel-type format, with the following schedule:

Panel I: Contemporary Issues Around the World

9:15 Zachary Alpert, “The Failure of the United States to Render Usama Bin Laden to Justice through Diplomatic and Covert Action during his Residency in Afghanistan Prior to 9/11” (Mentor: Prof. Salim Yaqub)
Commentator: Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

9:45 Andrew Farkash, “If Not Now, When?: The Histories and Legacies of Jewish Dissent from Zionism” (Mentor: Prof. Paul Spickard)
Commentator: Prof. Sherene Seikaly

10:15 Alan Chuang, ” The Rise of the Chinese Economy: Policy, Innovation and Technology” (Mentor: Prof. Richard Appelbaum)
Commentator: Prof. Lijuan Zhang

10:45 Break

Panel II: Ideas about Slavery in the 19th Century United States

11:00 Grant E. Stanton, “The Doctrine of the Declaration: Lincoln, Douglass, and The Battle Rhetorical” (Mentor: Prof. John Majewski)
Commentator: Prof. Mary Furner

11:30 Anne Kidder Osborn, “De Bow’s South: How One Periodical Reflected Education Reform in the Antebellum South” (Mentor: Prof. John Majewski)
Commentator: Jason Zeledon

12:00 Lunch (a catered buffet will be available)

Panel III: Media and Policy

12:45 Geneva Douma, “The Gendered History of Informed Consent: The Lunacy Commission and the “Treatment” of Female Mental Illness in Mid-Victorian England” (Mentor: Prof. Erika Rappoport)
Commentator: Prof. Laury Oaks

1:15 Evan Liddle, “A ‘Media Campaign’? The German Press and the Early Yugoslav Crisis (1989-1992): A Comparative Case Study of Neues Deutschland, Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel, and Die Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Mentor: Prof. Adrienne Edgar)
Commentator: Prof. Salim Yaqub

1:45 Adela Contreras, “The Salvadoran Revolution in the U.S.: Rufina Amaya’s Testimonies, January 1982” (Mentor: Prof. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia)
Commentator: Prof. Cecilia Méndez

2:15 Break

Panel IV: Ancient and Early Modern Borderlands

2:30 Brittany White, “Late Roman Alexandria: A Hot Mess of Identity From the Emperor to the Common Alexandrian” (Mentor: Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser)
Commentator: Prof. Rose MacLean

3:00 Richard Ibarra, “Magnates, Monks and Shepherds: Power and Land in Medieval Extremadura, Spain” (Mentor: Prof. Debra Blumenthal)
Commentator: Prof. Carol Lansing

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