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12th Annual UMD History Graduate Student Association Conference

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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

 

Add to Calendar 02/24/17 9:00 AM 02/24/17 4:30 PM America/New_York 12th Annual UMD History Graduate Student Association Conference


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

 

Taliaferro Hall