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Undergraduate History Conference
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
10:00am – 3:30pm
Humanities Gateway 1030
Please join the Department of History for the tenth annual Undergraduate History Conference. At this event, a group of undergraduate historians will share their research on a wide and exciting range of topics. Questions? Contact Michelle Spivey at spiveym@uci.edu.
Session 1 (10:00-11:15)
Isabel Verduzco " The Rise of Women’s Movements in Central America: Denouncing Human Rights Violations in El Salvador"
Sean Estabillo " A Thousand Years of Stone or Twelve of Plaster: A Reinterpretation of Adolf Hitler’s “Cities” Chapter in Mein Kampf"
Nathan Nguyen " War and Welfare in the Republic of Vietnam"
Katelin Ramos "Creole Guatemalans and the Making of their Enlightenment (1780s-1820s)"
Aymara Cardenas Camargo "Exhuming Ambivalence: Symbolic Storytelling and Betrayals Amidst the Spanish Civil War"
Session 2 (12:00-1:15)
Omar Bahjat Shariff "The Mind of the Taiping Heavenly King"
Jasmine Doan "The Two Paradises and the Journey Between: The Life of Trần Thị Phụng"
Yi Hu "The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Road"
John Trytten "The Alienation of Public Lands: Land Ownership and Development in Sonora during the Porfiriato (1876-1911)"
Session 3 (2:00-3:15)
Sebastian Calderon "'And Mere Food Was Their Flesh': Food, Identity and Resistance in Yucatán"
Spiro Sun "Our Prelates are Hanged, Not Shot"
Cole Chaidez "Italy's Africa: Evolution of Italian Colonial Policy and National Identity in the 20th Century"
Blake Martins "Patriots, Activists, and Combatants: the Women of Algeria"
Julia Black "The Place of Homoerotic Desire within German Ideals of Masculinity, 1898 - 1934"
Poster Presentations
Dawn Grillo "Isolation turns to Inclusion: Black Representation in Anime and the Creation of the Blerd Identity"
Gideon Choi "Analysis and Reconstruction of Mail Armor Components"
Nico Cho "CHATTEL Slavery: Examining United States Slavery (1776-1865) through a Black-Animal Studies Framework
Heng Du (Rowena) "An Evaluation of Women's Social Status in Colonial Hong Kong with a Feminist Lens-- Case Studies"
Cassandra Caro "Punjabi Mexican Americans in the United States"