Panel Session One, 3:15 - 4:30 PM

1A. Material Culture, Art History, and Marginalized Groups

The Luster of Livestock: Wealth and Labor in Medieval Mediterranean Art

Melina Olivas, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Witness and Other Deadly Acts

Erika Mei Chua Holum, Rice University and the University of Houston

The Ethical Ownership of the Pergamon Altar in a Modern Context

Elizabeth Festi, George Washington University

Chair: Karen Kurczynski, Professor in History of Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1B. Twentieth-Century Organizing and Activism

Opposing Apartheid: UMass and the South African Divestment Campaign

Christian F. Woods, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Chair: Diana Sierra Becerra, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst 

Saturday, April 19

Session two, 9:00 - 10:15 AM 

2A. Place, Memory, and Public History

Plotting Mount Hope Cemetery: Surfacing the Lives of Underground Railroad Conductors within the Niagara Region

Nikki Metzger, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

From ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ to National Park: Springfield Armory National Historic Site

Lauren Whitley-Haney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Tourism and Memory in Gettysburg's Material Environment 

Reid Ellefson-Frank, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Chair: Jon Olsen, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst 

2B. Institutions and the Construction of Knowledge

Two Models of State and Archival Control: Guatemala and Saudi Arabia

Laura Michael, New York University and Long Island University

"Only in Time Is Truth Revealed": Building a Model for Radical History

Lincoln Hirn, University of Connecticut 

Chair: Asheesh Siddique, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst 

Session three, 10:30 - 11:45 AM 

3A. Science, Technology, and Ideology in the 19th and 20th-Century US

A Structural Analysis of Urban Transportation Development in the United States, 1887-1956

Thomas Walter, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

One World or None: Scientific Internationalism, National Security, and the Bomb, 1945-1952

Eric Ross, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Implicit Faith in the Old Theory: Mercy Brown, Consumption, and the Permeable Boundary between Superstition and Science

Gregory Eburn, The University at Albany

Chair: Brian Ogilvie, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3B. Bodies, Autonomy, and the State

The Ethics of Adoption: The "Best Interests of the South Korean Adoptee”

Hye Kelly, George Washington University

The Rise of the Expert: Anti-Homosexual Policing and Psychiatry in 1970s Puerto Rico

Felix Santiago-Martinez, Yale University

Chair: Laura Briggs, Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Session four, 1:00 - 2:15 PM 

4A. “What Are Universities For?” Feinberg Lecture Series Roundtable - a Discussion with the Organizers

Dr. Jessica Johnson, Outreach and Community Engagement Director, History Department, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Dr. Asheesh Siddique, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Dr. Sigrid Schmalzer, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Dr. Kevin Young, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

4B. Gender and Power in Postcolonial Literature

Girlhood and Desire as an Allegory for Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man

Pritha Deshpande, New York University

Fem-terrestrial Production: Reading Fual Medb, or “Medb’s Foul Place,” Through A Pre-Western Ecofeminist Framework in The Táin

Olivia Curran, New York University

Chair: Shwetha Chandrashekhar, PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Session FIVE, 2:30 - 3:45 PM 

5A.  Incarceration, Resistance, and Memory

The Prison of Memory: Analyzing the impact of the Alipore Jail Museum as a Memorial Site

Shriya Dasgupta, Purdue University

A Disarticulation of the Corrective Prison-University in/through Caged

Sarina Sandwell, New York University

Chair: Toussaint Losier, Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5B. Education History around the Globe

The Intention of Manchukuo's Educational Warfare

Yuqing Tao, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

The Long Shadow of Language Loss: A Case Study of Franco-American Language Shift During the Era of Maine’s English-only Education Policy in the Saint John Valley,1919-1969

Tom Webster-Solomon Pinette, University of Maine - Orono

The Influence of Educational Institutions on Social Mobility: An African Approach

Gabriel Akileng, Ohio University

Chair: David Fleming, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts - Amherst