12th Annual UMD History Graduate Student Association Conference
12th Annual UMD History Graduate Student Association Conference
History
Friday, February 24, 2017 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Taliaferro Hall,
2nd Floor
Power and Persuasion: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Constructing and Contesting Legitimacy
Session One: 9:00am-10:30am: The Contested Nation
A European Nation? The Concept of Europe and German Nationalism's Struggle for Legitimacy during the Second World War.
Josh Klein, University of Maryland
Theater of the Absurd: Idi Amin, Legitimacy, and Insanity Politics During the Cold War.
Christian Ruth, University of Kentucky
The Wilsonian Moment in Ottoman Turkey, 1918-1920.
Akbaba Turgay, University of North Carolina
Winds of Change in Late Antiquity
'Abd Allah b. As'ad and Umayyad Egypt: Network Visualization of 8th C. Arabic Papyri with R.
Kyle Brunner, New York University
Delegitimizing and Re-legitimizing the Merovingian Dynasty: c. 751-870 AD.
Dallas Grubbs, Catholic University of America
Oeconomia (non) Est, Stulte: A Syrian Merchant's View of the Late Roman Economy
Nicholas Seetin, University of Maryland
Session Two: 10:40am-12:10pm: At the Intersection of Church and Polity
Legitimating Legal Authority and Sanctity in the Cult of Raimondo Palmerio.
Shane MacDonald, Catholic University of America
Konstantinus Episkopos: Constantine as "The Bishop of Those Outside the Church."
Edward Mason, University of Kentucky
How were Norman and Anglo-Saxon traditions
of illegitimacy impacted by the Norman Conquest and papal reform?
Timi Sgouros, SUNY Binghamton
Dignity and Identity in African American Life
Cleanliness is Next to Citizenship: National Negro Health Week and the Definition of Health.
Paul Braff, Temple University
The Life We March For: Contested Legitimacy in the Freddie Gray Demonstrations.
Erin Durham, University of Maryland
Breaking the Cycle: The Socioeconomic factor, Respectability Politics, and HIV/ AIDS.
Aishah Scott, SUNY Stony Brook
Keynote Speaker: 1pm- 2:30pm
Black Litigants: Rethinking Race and the Law in the Antebellum American South"
Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University
Session Three: 2:40pm-4:10pm: The Values of Life (and Death)
All Men Must Die: Forging Legitimacy through Eighteenth-Century Funereal Culture.
Dusty Dye, University of Maryland
Regulating Indigenous Commerce in 17th Century New Spain.
Kimberly Hursh, University of Virginia
The Force of Public Opinion: History, Antislavery and the Debate Over Indemnification in 1880s Rio de Janeiro.
Sergio Pinto-Handler, SUNY Stony Brook
Undergraduate Workshop
Democratic Eleutheria: Exploring the Philosophy of Freedom in Aristotle and Aristophanes.
William Soergel, University of Maryland
Resurrecting the Goddess Ashera through Archaeology and Bible.
David Malamud, University of Maryland
This event is funded in part by your Graduate Student Activites Fee.
Co-sponsored by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies