Ends and Afterlives: Death, Apocalypse, and Rebuilding Through History | History Graduate Student Association Conference
Ends and Afterlives: Death, Apocalypse, and Rebuilding Through History | History Graduate Student Association Conference
Open to all UMD students, faculty, staff, and the public.
No registration required.
All sessions will be hybrid.
Lunch will be provided.
Schedule
Friday, March 3
10-10:30 AM - Welcoming Remarks with Dr. Quincy Mills, Directory of Graduate Studies, UMD History Department
10:45 AM-12:15 PM - Session 1, Changing Afterlives and Cosmologies
Thomas Cadogan, University of Maryland, College Park. "Islamic Apocalyptic: Its Roots, Characteristics and Early History."
Cecilia Ward, George Mason University. "Do Gods Mourn Their Followers: Deities Performing Funerary Rituals in Classical Attic White Ground Lekythoi."
Liu Xuan, Columbia University. "Evolution of the Afterlife during the Zhou Dynasty."
Ana Zuñiga, Columbia University. "Where are the Places of the Afterlife? The Mediation of Cosmographic Models of the Nahuas in Early Colonial Mexico."
12:15-1:15 PM - Lunch
Zoom only: 12:15-1:15 PM - Zoom Lunch Social Hour
1:15-2:45 PM History and the Public, Now and In the Future, with Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus (SUNY), Dr. Bret Devereaux (UNC), Dr. Lesley Langa (UMD) and Archivist Lae’l Hughes-Watkins (UMD’s 1856 Project)
3-4 PM Session 2, Memorials
Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota. "For Us the Living: The Birthing Pains of a New Commemorative Form in the Twin Cities."
Alice Wynd, University of Rochester. "A Dark History on Display: Mapping the Afterlife of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in American Museums."
4:15-5:15 PM Academic Publishing and Grad Students, with Dr. Sarah Case (UCSB)
7 PM Grad Student Happy Hour - The Hall, College Park
4656 Hotel Dr., College Park, MD 20742 | View Menu
Saturday, March 4
9-10:30 AM Session 3, Political Conflict and Human Rights
Beatrice Chaudoin, Columbia University. "Sound beyond Sight: Sorrow Songs, Emmett Till, and the Politics of Grief."
Jackie Olson, Stanford University. "“Using the Living as Proxies in the Politics of the Dead: U.S. Grave Exhumation in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1953."
Constanza Dalla Porta, Princeton University. "Patio 29: Exhumations, misidentifications, and the sustained consequences of human rights violations."
Dennis Wieboldt, Boston College. "Fear of Theory, Threat of Force: How Global War Shaped the Attempted Revival of Natural Law Jurisprudence, 1911-1943."
10:45 AM-12:15 PM Session 4, West African Funeral Customs
Yemisi Olawale, University of Ilorin. "Death and Dying Across Cultures: Didi’Iso, Funerary Customs and Rituals in Ikoyi-Ile, South Western Nigeria."
Bright Petiafo, University of Miami. "Death, Funeral Practices and Arts in Ghana: A Case of the Ada."
Idris Ridwan Tosho, University of Ilorin. "Domestic Burial and Public Cemeteries in Ilorin: Responses and Implications."
12:15-1 PM Lunch
1-2:30 PM - Keynote. Note: Due to a personal emergency, our original keynote address will be replaced with a talk by Dr. Antoine Borrut (UMD), “Heaven and History: Astrology, Apocalyptic Expectations, and Regimes of Historicity in Early Islam.”
Keynote sponsored by the Center for Global Migration Studies
2:45-4:15 Session 5, Personal Status, Minorities and the Law
Mikol Bailey, University of Maryland, College Park. “Jews and Death in a Sixteenth-Century Polish Court.”
Lauren C. Cain, University of Maryland, College Park. "In Response to “The Blandishments of Foreign Sirens”: American Reactions to World War I War Brides."
Liam Cronan, Boston University. "Property of Dead Pilgrims: Land Ownership and Inheritance Law in Plymouth Colony, Its Breakaway from English Customs, and Its Effect on Property Rights and Gender Roles."
4:30-6 PM Session 6, New Approaches to Death and Cosmology in Britain and the US
Aleksandra Chernyak, George Mason University. "Freedom to Kill."
Elizabeth Grumer, Boston University. "Come As You Were: The 1950s Fascination with Reincarnation in Britain and America.
Kacie Harris, Boston University. "Nietzsche’s Illusions: Death after “God is Dead.""
Kiegan Lloyd, University of Regina. “Christianity, Sex, Sin, and Apocalypticism in the Literary Thought of Aleister Crowley.”
6:15-6:30 PM Closing Remarks & Paper Prize Announcement
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Our Sponsors
UMD Department of History - https://history.umd.edu/
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies - https://history.umd.edu/research/centers/miller-historical-studies
Center for Global Migration Studies - https://history.umd.edu/research/centers/cgms
Pepsi Co
The HGSA Conference is funded in part by your Graduate Student Activities Fee and is open to the entire graduate student community.
https://www.gsgumd.org/
Open to all UMD students, faculty, staff, and the public.
No registration required.
All sessions will be hybrid.
Lunch will be provided.
Schedule
Friday, March 3
10-10:30 AM - Welcoming Remarks with Dr. Quincy Mills, Directory of Graduate Studies, UMD History Department
10:45 AM-12:15 PM - Session 1, Changing Afterlives and Cosmologies
Thomas Cadogan, University of Maryland, College Park. "Islamic Apocalyptic: Its Roots, Characteristics and Early History."
Cecilia Ward, George Mason University. "Do Gods Mourn Their Followers: Deities Performing Funerary Rituals in Classical Attic White Ground Lekythoi."
Liu Xuan, Columbia University. "Evolution of the Afterlife during the Zhou Dynasty."
Ana Zuñiga, Columbia University. "Where are the Places of the Afterlife? The Mediation of Cosmographic Models of the Nahuas in Early Colonial Mexico."
12:15-1:15 PM - Lunch
Zoom only: 12:15-1:15 PM - Zoom Lunch Social Hour
1:15-2:45 PM History and the Public, Now and In the Future, with Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus (SUNY), Dr. Bret Devereaux (UNC), Dr. Lesley Langa (UMD) and Archivist Lae’l Hughes-Watkins (UMD’s 1856 Project)
3-4 PM Session 2, Memorials
Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota. "For Us the Living: The Birthing Pains of a New Commemorative Form in the Twin Cities."
Alice Wynd, University of Rochester. "A Dark History on Display: Mapping the Afterlife of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in American Museums."
4:15-5:15 PM Academic Publishing and Grad Students, with Dr. Sarah Case (UCSB)
7 PM Grad Student Happy Hour - The Hall, College Park
4656 Hotel Dr., College Park, MD 20742 | View Menu
Saturday, March 4
9-10:30 AM Session 3, Political Conflict and Human Rights
Beatrice Chaudoin, Columbia University. "Sound beyond Sight: Sorrow Songs, Emmett Till, and the Politics of Grief."
Jackie Olson, Stanford University. "“Using the Living as Proxies in the Politics of the Dead: U.S. Grave Exhumation in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1953."
Constanza Dalla Porta, Princeton University. "Patio 29: Exhumations, misidentifications, and the sustained consequences of human rights violations."
Dennis Wieboldt, Boston College. "Fear of Theory, Threat of Force: How Global War Shaped the Attempted Revival of Natural Law Jurisprudence, 1911-1943."
10:45 AM-12:15 PM Session 4, West African Funeral Customs
Yemisi Olawale, University of Ilorin. "Death and Dying Across Cultures: Didi’Iso, Funerary Customs and Rituals in Ikoyi-Ile, South Western Nigeria."
Bright Petiafo, University of Miami. "Death, Funeral Practices and Arts in Ghana: A Case of the Ada."
Idris Ridwan Tosho, University of Ilorin. "Domestic Burial and Public Cemeteries in Ilorin: Responses and Implications."
12:15-1 PM Lunch
1-2:30 PM - Keynote. Note: Due to a personal emergency, our original keynote address will be replaced with a talk by Dr. Antoine Borrut (UMD), “Heaven and History: Astrology, Apocalyptic Expectations, and Regimes of Historicity in Early Islam.”
Keynote sponsored by the Center for Global Migration Studies
2:45-4:15 Session 5, Personal Status, Minorities and the Law
Mikol Bailey, University of Maryland, College Park. “Jews and Death in a Sixteenth-Century Polish Court.”
Lauren C. Cain, University of Maryland, College Park. "In Response to “The Blandishments of Foreign Sirens”: American Reactions to World War I War Brides."
Liam Cronan, Boston University. "Property of Dead Pilgrims: Land Ownership and Inheritance Law in Plymouth Colony, Its Breakaway from English Customs, and Its Effect on Property Rights and Gender Roles."
4:30-6 PM Session 6, New Approaches to Death and Cosmology in Britain and the US
Aleksandra Chernyak, George Mason University. "Freedom to Kill."
Elizabeth Grumer, Boston University. "Come As You Were: The 1950s Fascination with Reincarnation in Britain and America.
Kacie Harris, Boston University. "Nietzsche’s Illusions: Death after “God is Dead.""
Kiegan Lloyd, University of Regina. “Christianity, Sex, Sin, and Apocalypticism in the Literary Thought of Aleister Crowley.”
6:15-6:30 PM Closing Remarks & Paper Prize Announcement
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Our Sponsors
UMD Department of History - https://history.umd.edu/
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies - https://history.umd.edu/research/centers/miller-historical-studies
Center for Global Migration Studies - https://history.umd.edu/research/centers/cgms Pepsi Co
The HGSA Conference is funded in part by your Graduate Student Activities Fee and is open to the entire graduate student community.
https://www.gsgumd.org/
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