*All welcome to this graduate student conference - something for everyone with topics including: war, culture, identity, technology, gender, imperialism and more!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Thursday, Feb. 7, 4:00pm - Taliaferro Hall, room 1103
Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
“The Windmill Theatre: Middlebrow, Erotic Display and the Spirit of the Blitz”

STUDENT PANELS - Friday, Feb. 8 - Taliaferro Hall,rooms 2110; 2130

8:00 – 8:30 – Breakfast, Taliaferro 2110

8:30 – 10:30 – Session One
A War on All Fronts: The Uses of Culture in the Cold War Comment by Rinna Kullaa, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2110

“Communism, Consumerism, and Romantic Comedy: The Role of Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka in Creating and Sustaining a Cold War Argument”
Rhiannon Dowling
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

“The Words of the Prophets: Jerry Falwell, Armageddon Theology, and the Nuclear Arms Race”
Jeremy Hatfield
Ohio University

“Confessions of the Real: Gender and the Culture of Authenticity in Postwar America”
Christina Larocco
University of Maryland, College Park

“Between Neutrality and Engagement: Political Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin and the Shaping of Political Culture in Divided Germany, 1945-1961”
Nick Schlosser
University of Maryland, College Park

Identity Politics in Times of Revolution Comment by Ted Cohen, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2103

“Reforming God and the State: The Formulation of a National Identity during the French Revolution”
Tara Good
New York University

“’Working Women’ and ‘Men in the Shop’: Mexico City Anarcho-Syndicalist Newspapers’ Gendered Representations of the Working Class, 1917-1922”
Reid Gustafson
University of Maryland, College Park

“The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord: Crossracial Alliances and the Journey to Violent Means among Evangelical Abolitionists, 1816-1848”
John Matsui
Johns Hopkins University

“Restructuring Hierarchies of Power: The Fall of Sichuan’s Provincial Elite, 1902-1912”
Robert Peterson
University of Maryland, College Park

10:30 – 10:45 – Break

10:45 – 12:30 – Session Two
Gender under Fire: Masculinity and Femininity in Wartime Comment by Andrew Kellett, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2110

“The Female Face of Terror: Chechnyan Suicide Bombers”
Abbey Cullen
Loyola University of Chicago

“Beauty on the Job: The Feminization of the American Workforce during World War II”
Malia McAndrew
University of Maryland, College Park

“Service by Other Means: Changing Perceptions of Masculinity and Military Service, 1945-1973”
Amy Rutenberg
University of Maryland, College Park

Technology and National Identity Comment by Melissa Kravetz, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2103

“If You Give Them an Inch, They’ll Take 1.609344 Kilometres: The Demise of National Metrification in America”
Jeff Brideau
University of Maryland, College Park

“’Free and Good Roads’: The Campaign for Infrastructure Development in Philadelphia and its Countryside, 1765-1775”
Colleen Rafferty
University of Delaware

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch Taliaferro Hall, room 2100

1:30 – 3:15 – Session Three
Constructing British Imperial Identity Comment by Jeremy Best, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2110

“’Anglicizing’ the English: The Tudor Conciliatory Policy in the Earldom of Desmond and the Lordship of McWilliam Burke”
John Lash
Fordham University

“Respectable Subjects of the Queen: Native Opinion and the Prince of Wales’ Tour of India, 1875-76”
Chas Reed
University of Maryland, College Park

“’A Faithless and Violent Character’: British Imperialism in India and the Origin of the Legend of Tipu Sultan, 1780-1800”
Mike Soracoe
University of Maryland, College Park

Manipulating Myth and Memory: Forging Identity with History Comment by Erik Christiansen, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2103

“Forging Harmonious Coexistence: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in the Jewish Museum of Turkey”
Amalia Levi
University of Maryland, College Park

“The Alexanders of Rome: The Roman Emulation of Alexander the Great during the Empire”
Nikolaus Overtoom
University of North Texas

“Remembering 9-11”
Blair Scott
American University

3:15 – 3:30 – Break

3:30 – 5:15 – Session Four
Administrating Control: Institutional Power and Exclusion Comment by Jeremy Sullivan, University of Maryland, College Park Taliaferro Hall, room 2110

“Hidden Economy under Chained Hands: The Internal Prison Economy and the Struggle for Prisoner Rights in Texas, 1945-90”
Rob Chase
University of Maryland, College Park

“Madness and Control: Insanity in Immigrant Women”
Ji-Hye Shin
Rutgers University

“Reason and Faith: The Catholic Church and Chilean Public Health Discourses, 1932-1936”
Sarah Walsh
University of Maryland, College Park

Religion, Rhetoric, and Realpolitik: The Middle East, Islam, and Western Foreign Policy Comment by Evan Hays Taliaferro Hall, room 2103

“Cooperation or Competition?: Anglo-American Relations in Saudi Arabia, 1941-45”
John Blom
Ohio University

“Playing a Role: Imperial Germany’s Relationship to Islam and the Armenian Massacres”
Jason Konik
University of Virginia

“’Like water dissolving in sand’: The Role of Islam in the Context of Soviet and American Foreign Policy toward Afghanistan, 1979-1989”
Raabia Shafi
George Washington University

Closing reception will follow.