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UH Graduate Research Colloquium announced for Fall 2008
Posted: October 6, 2008
The University of Houston’s Department of History announces the Fall 2008 edition of its Graduate Student Research Colloquium. The Colloquium is jointly sponsored by the UH History Department and the local graduate chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the international history honor society. The Colloquium provides a forum in which some of the Department’s MA and PhD candidates can discuss their current research with fellow students and faculty. The Department also welcomes the participation of under-graduate history majors and, indeed, the public in general.
The schedule for this semester’s Research Colloquium follows. All sessions will be held on the UH Central Campus in Agnes Arnold 520 and will run from 3 to 4:30 on Thursday afternoons.
25 September: Studies in Women's History: Twentieth-Century Changes
-Debbie Harwell, “Wednesdays in Mississippi: Women Building Bridges of Understanding, September 1964”
-Kristen Contos Krueger, “No Longer Entitled: Adolescent Pregnancy in Public Schools Before and After Title IX”
-Commentator: Dr. Landon Storrs
30 October: Studies in Urban History: From Medieval Denmark to Modern America
-Maria Corsi, “Urbanization in Medieval Denmark: Patterns of Continuity and Discontinuity”
-Vicki Myers, “Houston’s Exemplary Preservation Project: The Adaptive Reuse of the Humble Oil & Refining Company Building”
-Commentator: Dr. Martin Melosi
20 November: Studies in Mayan History: Culture and Identity (II)
-Alfonso Lopez, “Sacred Visions and Ancestral Rites in the Historical Continuity Of Mayan Consciousness in Yucatan”
-Carminia Martinez, “The Return of the Sacred: Millenarianism in 2012 Among The Council of Mayan Elders and Priests of Yucatan”
-Commentator: Dr. John Hart
