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Please join us for the 2024 HGSA Conference "Historians & Their Public(s)" on Saturday, April 6th in Humanities Gateway 1030. The conference features keynote speaker & UCI History Alumni Dr. Ali A. Olomi, who is now an Assistant Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. Please see below for the full agenda.
Coffee and Breakfast - 9:30 AM
Welcome & Opening Notes - 10:00AM
Session 1 - 10:15 AM
Alyssa Martin (UCI): “Relief and Rebuilding After Hurricane Camille ”
Viviana Alvarez Rodriguez (UCI): “Race and Gender in Twentieth Century Mexican Eugenics Societies ”
Marissa Gavin (UCI): “Eighteenth-Century French Pacific Voyages"
Jiajia Duan(UCI): “The political activism of I Wor Kuen (a radical Chinese American organizations based in Chinatown) in the late 1960s and 1970s in US”
Session 2 - 1:00PM
Jafet Rodriguez (UCI): “Naming Time: Indigenous Historicity and the Maya Archive 1540-1790”
Camila Sanhueza (UCI): “The 1975 Family Code and the abolishment of illegitimacy in Revolutionary Cuba ”
Berenice Tepozano (UCI): “The Honor of Mothers in Late 18th Century Mexico ”
Bedros Torosian (UCI): “Scientific Racism, Eugenics, and Patriotic Ottoman Sexualities in Exile ”
Session 3 - 2:40 PM
James Baker (UCI): “George Whitcomb- creator of a Southern California Town ”
Leighton Smith (UCI): “The Cost of Letters: Illiteracy, Child Donations, "Lettered Labor, " and the Socio-Material Context of Kellite Manichaeism, 300-400 CE”
Spencer Gomez (UCI): “Settlement Creation for Black Auxiliaries in Late 18th Century Panama”
Session 4 - 4:30 PM
Miguel A. Quirarte (UCI): “Revolutionary Commerce and Aloof Diplomacy: Japan-Mexico Relations During the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917”
Nathaniel Pigott (UCI): “Ping Pong World: Grassroots Sports in Chinese Nationalism and Internationalism”
Keynote Speaker - 6:00 PM
"The History Wars", Dr. Ali O. Olomi, Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University
Questions? Please contact ucihgsa@gmail.com