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UH Graduate Research Colloquium For Fall 2007
Posted: September 13, 2007
The University of Houston’s History Department announces the fall 2007 schedule for the UH Graduate Research Colloquium.
As is customary, the Colloquium is jointly sponsored by the History Department and the local chapters of Phi Alpha Theta, the international history honor society. The Colloquium provides a forum in which the Department’s MA and PhD candidates discuss their current research with fellow students and faculty. The Department also welcomes the participation of undergraduate history majors and the general public.
All sessions will take place on the UH Central Campus in Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 549. (Please go to http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/AH.html for directions to Agnes Arnold Hall.)
Unless otherwise noted or subsequently changed, all three sessions will take place on Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The fall schedule for the Research Colloquium is:
| 27 Sept. | Mayan History, Culture, and Identity | |
| Alfonso Lopez | "Indigenous Visions and Ancestral Rites in the Construction of Mayan Identity Among Yucatan's Traditional Pueblos" | |
| Carminia Martinez | "The Return of the Sacred: Millenarianism, Prophecy, and Sacred Rituals in the Construction of Mayan Identity" | |
| Dr. Susan Kellogg | Comment | |
| 25 Oct. | Art and Literature as History | |
| Clarissa Hinojosa | "Justice Overdue: An Historically-Based Crticial Reinterpretation of Alice Overdo in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair" | |
| Diana Sanders | "St. Denis: Suger's Medium, Suger's Message" | |
| Dr. Cathy Patterson | Comment | |
| Dr. Sally Vaughn | Comment | |
| 29 Nov. | American Politics and Race | |
| Issac Hampton | "Black Army Officers during the Vietnam Era" | |
| Nicholas Cox | "Transcendentals, Doughfaces, and Young America" | |
| Dr. Bob Buzzanco | Comment |
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