| WELCOME (9:00–9:15a) |
| Catriona MacLeod, Faculty Advisor, UHF, and Associate Prodessor of Germanic Languages and Literatures |
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| EMERGING, SHIFTING, SHAPING: IDENTITY (9:15–10:50a) |
| Abby Brisbon |
Good Hair, Bad Hair: African-American Hair Relations in the Early
Twentieth Century |
| Benjamin Fletcher |
Increasing Awareness for the Indigenous in the 21st Century |
Elizabeth Raposa
Serena Stein |
Trauma and Metamorphosis: The Narratives of African Refugees
in Philadelphia (Joint Project) |
| Daniel Ross |
Jew Like Me: An Oral History of Congregation Temple Bethel, a Black
Synagogue in the West Oak Lane Neighborhood of Philadelphia |
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| POST- (11:05a–12:30p) |
| Chloé Hurley |
The Passed and the President: Presidential Obituaries |
| Philip Shecter |
The Angel of History: Rituals of Recovery in Post-9/11 Fiction |
| Jessica Yu |
Up in Smoke: The Afterlife of America’s Industrial Beacon |
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| WHAT IS TO BE DONE? (1:00–2:15p) |
| Nina Johnson |
Citizenship and Nationality in a Globalizing World |
| Kojo Minta |
The Aesthetic of the Ascetic |
| Tali Yahalom |
Roman Holidays: The Role of Publicity in Criminal Trials |
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| BREAKING OF (ID) (2:15–3:30p) |
| Siobhan Atkins |
The American Student Power Movement of the 1960s |
| Sarah Gibbons |
The Savings and Loan Crisis: A Morality Play of Modern American Finance |
| Noah Weiss |
“A campaign promise is one thing, a signed pledge is quite another:” A
Political History of the 1994 Republican Revolution |
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| NEAR, FAR, AND SOUTH: CHANGES IN THE EAST (3:45–5:00p) |
| Yuen Kit Chau |
Hong Kong: Ten Years Since the Handover |
| Nicole CuUnjieng |
The Regime of Ferdinand Marcos and the Role of the Supreme Court of
the Philippines |
| Naomi Rosenblatt |
Oil and the Eastern Front: US Foreign and Military Policy in Iran, 1941-1945 |
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| "ASSEMBLING AN ALARM CLOCK TO ROUSE THE KITSCH OF THE PREVIOUS CENTURY:" COLLECTING THROUGHOUT THE AGES (5:00–6:15p) |
| Lizzie Frasco |
Non-Traditional Methods for Non-Traditional Art: Conserving Art in the 20th Century |
| Brooke Palmieri |
Impudence to Copy: The Relation Between Print Culture and the Manuscripts
of Francis Daniel Pastorius |
| David Reinecke |
Technostalgia: How Old Gear Lives on in New Music |
