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UH History/Third Annual Houston-Area Phi Alpha Theta Consortium
Posted: February 28, 2007
The University of Houston History Department, in conjunction with its graduate and undergraduate chapters of Phi Alpha Theta, will be hosting the Third Annual Houston-Area Phi Alpha Theta Consortium. Phi Alpha Theta is the national history honor society. This history conference is scheduled to run all day on Saturday, April 14 in the University Center Underground on the UH Central Campus. Outstanding graduate and advanced undergraduate students from a number of local universities and colleges will be presenting papers dealing with a wide variety of themes, geographic regions, and eras in sessions chaired by specialists in the relevant fields.
All inquiries concerning the April 14 Consortium should be addressed to the Director of this year’s Consortium, Dr. Bailey Stone, at 713-743-3115, or BStone@uh.edu.
The schedule for the Consortium follows below:
8:00am - 8:30am REGISTRATION
Mediterranean Room, UC 91
8:30am WELCOME
Dr. Catherine Patterson, Associate Dean, CLASS
University of Houston--Central Campus
8:45am - 10:15am FIRST-ROUND SESSIONS
THE EDUCATION, CULTURE, AND STATECRAFT OF EMPERORS AND KINGS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Baltic Room, UC 77
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Sally Vaughn, UH-Central Campus
Courtney Demayo, UH-Central Campus
"Gerbert of Aurillac's Correspondence: The Collection as a Pedagogic Tool"
Maria Corsi, Uh-Central Campus
"The Importance of Strong Kingship to the Growth of Towns and Trade in Medieval Denmark"
Stephen Sundquist, UH-Central Campus
"Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: 'A Man of Sharp Wit, Learned, a Lover of Philosophy, Logic and Medicine'"
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STRUGGLES FOR DIGNITY AND EQUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
Caribbean Room, UC 75
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Tyrone Tillery, UH-Central Campus
Jon R. Wilson, UH-Central Campus
"Origins: The Houston NAACP, 1915-1918"
Graham Cox, UH-Central Campus
"The Dedication of Anacostia Recreation Camp for Negro Soldiers at Anacostia Flats, September 20, 1941"
Tim O'Brien, UH-Central Campus
"Kill the Poor: Lenwood Johnson and the Battle of Allen Parkway Village, 1983-1996"
THE GENDERED ROLES OF WOMEN IN THREE 'EARLY MODERN' SOCIETIES
Caspian Room, UC 87
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Jonathan Zophy, UH--Clear Lake
Sofia Latorre, UH-Central Campus
"Not Quite Set in Stone: Mexica Gender Parallels Through Religion"
Clarissa Hinojosa, UH-Central Campus
"Justice Overdue: An Historically-Based Reinterpretation of Alice Overdo in Ben Johnson's Bartholomew Fair"
Lauren Clark, UH-Central Campus
"The Gendering of Witches and Witchcraft in Early Modern Germany: The Changing Roles of Women"
10:15am - 10:30am MORNING COFFEE BREAK
Mediterranean Room, UC 91
10:30am - 12:00pm SECOND-ROUND SESSIONS
VOCATION, FRIENDSHIP, AND POLITICAL PATRONAGE: APPROACHES TO THE 'SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION' IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Baltic Room, UC 77
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Sally Vaughn, UH
Benjamin Pugno, UH-Central Campus
"Healing the Body and Soul: Classical Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England"
Holle Canatella, UH-Central Campus
"The Meaning of Distant Friendship in Goscelin of St. Bertin's Liber Confortatorius"
Tara Peveto, Houston Baptist University
"John of Gaunt's Support of John Wycliffe"
HUMAN RESPONSES TO HISTORY'S TRAUMATIC EVENTS: SILVER LININGS, OR JUST BLACK CLOUDS?
Caribbean Room, UC 75
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Ron Rexilius, Houston Baptist University
Andi Maceo, UH--Clear Lake
"The 1900 Galveston Storm: A Necessary Evil"
Jeffrey Womack, UH--Central Campus
"Burned Alive: Pandemic Influenza in 1918"
Cheri L. Van Sant, UH--Clear Lake
"A Psychological Analysis of Trauma: Children of the Lebensborn"
THREE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROOTS OF REVOLUTIONARY AND CIVIL WARFARE IN AMERICA
Caspian Room, UC 87
Chair--Commentator: Dr. James Kirby Martin, UH--Central Campus
Angela Y. Bufkin, UH-Central Campus
"Anglo-French Rivalry and the American War for Independence"
Brice E. Olivier, UH-Central Campus
"Before Being Swamp Fox: Francis Marion and the Onset of the American Revolution"
Gregory Peek, UH-Central Campus
"A Great Middle Course: The Rise of the Republican Party in Indiana, 1840-1860"
INTERPRETING AMERICAN SOCIETY THROUGH THE PRISMS OF RACE, GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND CLASS
Pacific Room, UC 90
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Andrew Chesnut, UH-Central Campus
Lauren Kerr, UH-Campus Central
"Race, Gender, and Medicine in the American Social context"
A.J. Garcia, UH--Clear Lake
"Tying Up Loose Ends: Biased Reporting on the Career of Cesar Chavez, 1968-1981"
Phillip Sinitiere, UH-Central Campus
"'Right on the Money?': Reflections on a Marketplace Approach to American Religion"
12:00pm - 1:00pm LUNCHEON
Mediterranean Room, UC 91
1:00pm - 2:30pm THIRD-ROUND SESSIONS
THE 'JEWISH QUESTION' IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE: IDENTITY, ASSIMILATION, SURVIVAL(??)
Baltic Room, UC 77
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Barbara Hales, UH--Clear Lake
Bernadette Steward, Texas Southern University
"A Nation Within: The Jewish Experience During the French Revolution"
Bernice A. Heilbruun, UH-Central Campus
"Jews in the German States in the Late Eighteenth Century: Citizens or Not?"
Ande Larsen, UH--Clear Lake
"Dear Jesus: Religious Anti-Semitism or Nazi Ideology in Veit Harlan's Jud Suss (1940) and Kolberg (1945)"
HISTORIC CONFRONTATIONS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATIONS
Caribbean Room, UC 75
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Jonathan Zophy, UH--Clear Lake
Salma Ali, Houston Baptist University
"The Battle of the Camel in the Seventh Century"
James Goodman, UH-Central Campus
"Tinchebray and the Myth of Cavalry Supremacy"
Daniel B. Wells, UH-Central Campus
"In the Mouths of Lions: Zemgale Province Between Teutonic Knights and Lithuania, c. 1320-1377"
PROVIDING HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE 'COLD WAR' AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Caspian Room, UC 87
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Ron Rexilius, Houston Baptist University
Nicholas Cox, UH--Central Campus
"The Hungry Years: State and Federal Repression in the 1840's"
Jason G. Crow, UH--Clear Lake
"Las Cuevas, 1875: Leander McNelly's War on Terror"
Mike Guardia, UH--Central Campus
"Broken Arrow: Security Policy and the U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1890"
2:30pm - 2:45pm AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK
Mediterranean Room, UC 91
2:45pm - 4:00pm FOURTH-ROUND (SHORT) SESSIONS
WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN (AND EXCLUSION FROM??) THE FRENCH REVOLTION
Baltic Room, UC 77
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University
Rebekah McAdams, UH--Clear Lake
"Hell Hath No Fury: How Women-Led Supply Protest Affected the French Revolution"
Carrie 'Lin' Christofferson, Houston Baptist University
"The Suppression of Women's Clubs: The Revolutionary Republican Women versus Rousseau's 'Ideal Woman'"
TESTING GLASS CEILINGS: WOMEN'S ROLES IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY TEXAS
Caribbean Room, UC 75
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Diane Martin, Houston Baptist University
Mary Mabry Clough, UH-Central Campus
"Texas Women: Pushing the Limits in the 1800s"
Deborah Wing-Leonard, UH--Clear Lake
"Figs, Flappers, and Fignolias: Working Women of the 1920s Texas Gulf Coast"
ASIAN PERSPECTIVES AT HOME AND ABOARD: PHILOSOPHERS IN CHINA AND JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA
Caspian Room, UC 87
Chair--Commentator: Dr. Xiaoping Cong, UH-Central Campus
Roanna Cheung, UH-Central Campus
"The Debate of Early Chinese Thinkers on Human Nature: A Comparative Analysis of Mencius, Xun Zi, and Lao Zi's Philosophical Thoughts"
Leigh Ann Shelfer, UH--Clear Lake
"God-Power Rice and the Power of Religion: Racial Acceptance of Japanese Immigrants in Texas During World War II (With a Focus on the City of Webster
4:00pm - 5:00pm CLOSING RECEPTION
Mediterranean Room, UC 91
Free-For-All Discussion: "Where Do We Go From Here?"
(Moderated by Dr. Bailey Stone, UH--Central Campus)
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