SHUR Conference--A Rousing Success
Despite the inclement weather, the SHUR Conference went off without a hitch. Good papers and intellectual exchange characterized the event.
SHUR CONFERENCE
April 29th and 30th, 2016
Mississippi State University
Department of History
FRIDAY, April 29th
REGISTRATION 4:00-5:00
Colvard Student Union, Room 227
FIRST ROUND OF PANELS 5:00-6:15 p.m.
Social Connections, at Home and Abroad
Comments by Dr. Alix Hui
Colvard Student Union, Room 231
1A Rachael Damms, Mississippi University for Women
“Secrets Do Make Friends: Uncovering the History of MUW’s Social Clubs”
1B Kayla Robison, Mississippi University for Women
“Counterculture in Mississippi during the 1960s and 1970s”
1C Ryan Lawrence, Mississippi State
“Mutual Misunderstandings: A Study on Ida Honoré Grant’s Austrian Experience”
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 6:30-7:30
Dr. Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College
Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium
CONFERENCE BANQUET 7:45-9:30
Little Dooey BBQ
SATURDAY, April 30th
REGISTRATION 7:30-8:30
McCool Hall Atrium
Coffee and light breakfast foods provided
SECOND ROUND OF PANELS 8:30-9:50
Religious Faiths in Political Contexts
Comments by Dr. Alison Greene
McCool Hall, Room 126
2A Gerret Treas, Murray State University
“Quakers and Gnostics: Inward Light of Intuitive Knowing”
2B Fidelia Renne, Wheaton College
“Peace In Translation: A Historical Reflection on the Acculturation of Mennonite Peace Theology Amidst Nicaraguan Political Conflict (1977-1990)”
2C Lydia Biggs, Murray State University
“Transnational Influences of Early Jesuit Scholars and Explorers in the New World from 1560-1700”
SECOND ROUND (cont’d) 8:30-9:50
Knowledge from—and about—the land
Comments by Dr. Mark Hersey
McCool Hall, Room 130
2D Tim T. Wang, Rice University
“Preserving the Spirit of National Parks: The U.S. Army in Yellowstone”
2E Tajdeep Brar, Ryerson University
“Lead Poisoning and the Fall of Rome: An Exploration of the Theory and the Impact of Lead Exposure on Aristocratic Roman Children”
2F Roger Liang, Rice University
“PSAC, the Environment, and Denialism”
COFFEE BREAK 9:50-10:30
McCool Hall Atrium
THIRD ROUND OF PANELS 10:30-11:50
Conflict Theses
Comments by Dr. Richard Damms
McCool Hall, Room 126
3A Robert Frey, Mississippi State University
“Georgia, Jackson, and the Bank War: Public Reaction in Georgia to Andrew Jackson’s Attack on the Second National Bank”
3B R. Conrad Freeman, University of Idaho
“The Dust Covered Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant and His Victories that Preserved Our Nation 1862 to 1865”
3C Alyssa Leet, Murray State University
“Gunsei, Minshi”
The Construction and Deconstruction of African-American Identities
Comments by Dr. Marsha Barrett
McCool Hall, Room 130
3D John Christian Kuehnert, Covenant University
“Domination and Oppression: a Brief Analysis of Language as a Form of Subordination in Civil War Runaway Slave Ads”
3E Charles W. Johnson, Auburn University
“Are Mose and Minerva Less Distinctive than Lakisha and Jamal? The Use and Abuse of Distinctively Black Names in Slavery and in Freedom”
3F Caroline Gray, Mississippi College
“The Bulldogs: Poor Whites and White Supremacy in Hinds County, 1865 – 1877”
LUNCH 12:00-1:30
Catered sandwiches
McCool Hall Atrium
Transportation available to Comfort Suites and back
FOURTH ROUND OF PANELS 1:30-2:50
The “Place” of Women in Twentieth Century American Culture
Comments by Dr. Matthew Lavine
McCool Hall, Room 126
4A Briana McManus, University of Maryland-College Park
“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”
4B Sydney Phillips, University of California-Davis
"Romance Comic Books and Magazines: The Cold War, Anti-Feminism, and Teaching Women Their Place"
4C Erin Blackledge, University of Southern Mississippi
“Edith Cavell and the Great War Propaganda: Impacts on American Feminism”
Racial Politics from Reconstruction to the Present
Comments by Dr. Andrew Lang
McCool Hall, Room 130
4D Ashia Caraway, Grambling State University
“Double Negatives: How Black female intellectuals have come to defy respectability politics yet still have to conform to mainstream standards”
4E Olivier Péloquin, Université de Montréal
“Adelbert Ames and Reconstruction’s Last Stand in Mississippi”
4F Kayla J. McClellan, Grambling State University
“Activist First: Robinson's Claim to Fame Readjusted”
FIFTH ROUND OF PANELS 3:00-4:00
American Social History
Comments by Dr. Judith Ridner
McCool Hall 126
5A David Rothmund, Elmhurst College
“The Dichotomy between Gender, Race, and Law in Antebellum America”
5B William H. Smith III, Kutztown University
“Perspectives of Reconstruction: 1900 To the Present Day”
5C Nicholas Fleder, Rice Universtiy
“The Great Escapade: Yosemite and the Knots of the American Leisure Movement”