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Fourth Annual Phi Alpha theta History Consortium
Posted: March 31, 2008
A large number of students from the main campus of the university of Houston Department of History will participate on Friday, April 18, in the Fourth annual Houston-Area Phi Alpha Theta History Consortium at the University of Houston at Clear Lake.
The Phi Alpha theta (PAT) history Consortium takes place Friday, April 18, and features presentations by outstanding graduate students and undergraduate majors in History from colleges and universities in the Houston area. Any questions relating to the events on Friday, April 18 should be directed to Dr. Bailey Stone at 713-743-3115 or (BStone@uh.edu). The schedule for the Consortium on April 19 follows below.
The PAT Consortium will take place as part of the annual three-day Student Conference for Research & Creative Arts sponsored by the University of Houston at Clear Lake. The full conference runs April 16-18, 2008 on the scenic Clear Lake campus. For the full three-day schedule of the UH-Clear Lake Research & Creative Arts Conference, visit the official Conference website at http://www.uhcl.edu/ResearchArtsConference/, or contact the Conference Director, Dr. Michael Hunt, at 281-283-3375 (huntm@uhcl.edu).
Maps and parking information are provided on the Conference website for the convenience of faculty/student participants and other prospective attendees. This event is open to the public and faculty and students from the various area colleges and universities.
PHI ALPHA THETA CONSORTIUM (FRIDAY, APRIL 18):
| 8-9 am | REGISTRATION | |
| 8:30 am | FORMAL WELCOME | |
| 9-10:30 am | FIRST-ROUND SESSIONS |
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Angela Howard, UH - Clear Lake
Gregory Peek, UH, "Sentiments More Congenial with those of the People":
The Politics of Slavery in the Indiana Territory, 1787-1816"
Nicholas Cox, UH, "Neither Sally nor Celia: The Red, White, and Black Wives of Vice President Richard M. Johnson"
Andrew Pegoda, UH - Clear Lake, "Debating the Second Reconstruction and Its Aftermath: Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954-Present"
SPIRITUAL, ECONOMIC, AND GENDERED ROLES OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE EUROPE
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Diane Martin, Houston Baptist University
Holle Canatella, UH, "Desire Embraced, Sexuality Denied: The Ideology and Practice of Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in the Middle Ages"
Maria Corsi, UH, "Women in Trade in Viking-Age Denmark"
Deborah Wing-Leonard, UH - Clear Lake, "Bards and Breeches: Degrees of Gender Bending in the Renaissance"
TUDOR AND STUART THEMES IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: LANGUAGE, COLONIZATION, AND MURDER
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Catherine Patterson, UH
Leigh Ann Shelfer, UH - Clear Lake, "In the Court of Black Teeth: The Development of the English Language During Elizabeth I's Reign"
Tancy Posey, Houston Baptist University, "Elizabeth I Paves the Way to North America"
Andi Maceo, UH - Clear Lake, "The Murder of Lord Darnley"
| 10:30-10:45 am | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:45 - 12:15 pm | SECOND-ROUND SESSIONS |
THE POLITICAL, FINANCES, AND CULTURE OF STATE-BUILDING IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
chair/Commentator: Dr. Jonathan Zophy, UH - Clear Lake
Libby Walunas, UH, "The Politics of Sacrifice: Anglo-Norman Applications of Imitatio Christi"
Mike Phifer, UH, "The Refusal of Foreign Service in the Reign of King John"
Daniel B. Wells, UH, "Behind the Narrative: The Kidnapping of Gerhard, Archbishop of Mainz, in 1256"
THE COLONIZERS AND THE COLONIZED IN SPANISH AMERICA: THREE CASE STUDIES
chair/Commentator: Dr. Theresa Jach, UH - Clear Lake
James Goodman, UH, "Mesoamerican Warfare: Popular Misconceptions and Potent Reality"
Raul Marroquin, UH, "The First Spanish Mission in East Texas: El Nuevo Reino de Leon"
Joseph Tutt, UH, "Popular Music in Pre-revolutionary and Revolutionary Cuba"
VIETNAM'S TRAUMATIC IMPACT ON AMERICAN SOCIETY
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Ron Rexilius, Houston Baptist University
Rebekah McAdams, UH - Clear Lake, "The Mourning Behind the Myth: A Psychoanalysis of the POW/MIA Mythology"
Ashlie McKenzie, UH - Clear Lake, "The Breaking Point: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam Cinema"
Erin Sterling, UH - Clear Lake, "Vietnam and the Media: Why Was Their Perception of the War So Important?"
BENIGN CHALLENGES OR GENUINE CRISES IN MODERN AMERICA? CIVIL AVIATION, CUBAN MISSLES, AND ENERGY
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Adam Hodges, UH - Clear Lake
Mark G. Scott, UH - Clear Lake, "Civil Aviation in the United States"
Brooke Wilson, UH - Clear Lake, "Children of the Cuban Missle Crisis"
Jeffrey Womack, UH, "Miracle in the Sky: Solar Satellites and the Energy Crisis"
| 12:15-2 pm | LUNCHEON | |
| 2 - 3:30 pm | THIRD-ROUND SESSIONS |
MEDICAL ISSUES IN THE RELIGIOUS AND LEGAL CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Jonathan Zophy, UH - Clear Lake
Benjamin Pugno, UH, "Divine Healing: Medical Elements in Anglo-Saxon Miracle Stories"
Cresida McCue, Houston Baptist University, "The Crown's Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Medieval England"
MASCULINITY, WAR, AND TECHNOLOGY IN 1960s AMERICA: THE CROSS-ATLANTIC CONNECTION
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Adam Hodges, UH - Clear Lake
Alyson Sanders, Sam Houston State University, "Dice, Booze, and Whores: Irish Masculinity in the Confederate States of America"
Daniel Leclair, UH, "Boxer vs. Crispin vs. Daw: Patent Law and the Development of Small Arms Ammunition in the 1860's"
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY CONTROVERSIES IN THE WILSON AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT PRESIDENCIES
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Nancy Young, UH
Dan Donalson, UH, "A Convenient Engine of Oppression": Personal Uses of the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918"
Paula Stang, Houston Baptist University, "FDR's New Deal: A Bad Deal for the United States"
Kevin Browning, Sam Houston State University, "Pearl Harbor Revisited: An Examination of Six Interpretations of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor"
TWENTIETH-CENTURY ASIAN PERSPECTIVES IN TIMES OF WAR AND PEACE
Chair/Commentator: Dr. Xiaoping Cong, UH
Roanna Cheung, UH, "Wartime Heroines in the City of Five Sheep: Activism and Self-Perceptions of Women in Guangzhou during the Second World War"
Uzma Quraishi, UH, "Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston from 1960 to 1980"
| 3:30-4:30 pm | CLOSING RECEPTION |
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