History Honors Seminar Colloquium

UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium

Friday, May 20th

4020 HSSB

8:30 AM Coffee and pastries

9:00 AM Welcome

– Professor Sharon Farmer, Chair of the History Department

– Professor Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2015-16 Senior Honors Seminar

9:15 AM

Bruno Tomasini, “The Danger of Moral Necessity: The Dissolution of the Civil Rights Congress” (advisor: Professor Randy Bergstrom)

Comment: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, History Department

9:45 AM

I-Wen (Winnie) Wang, “The New Chinese-American Baby: Chinese Birth Tourism in Southern California” (advisor: Professor Paul Spickard)

Comment: Professor Xiaojian Zhao, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies

10:15 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:30 AM

Paola Villegas, “‘Vivimos en conflicto’: University-Induced Displacement in Isla Vista, CA” (advisor: Professor George Lipsitz, Sociology)

Comment: Professor Paul Spickard, History Department

11:00 AM

C.J. Key, “Dogwhistle Disarmament: A History of Racialized Gun Control in 20th Century America (advisor: Professor Laura Kalman)

Comment: Professor Mary Furner, History Department

11:30 – 1:00PM LUNCH BREAK

1:00 PM

Lovepreet Brah, “The Mixed Race Issue: A Curious Case of a Muslim Nawab, his Jewish Lover and the Late 19th Century Calcutta High Court” (Advisor: Professor Erika Rappaport)

Comment: Professor Mary Hancock, History Department

1:30 PM

Audrey Dalton, “The First World War in Contemporary Juvenile Fiction” (advisor: Professor Alice O’Connor)

Comment: Professor Lisa Jacobson, History Department

2:00 PM

Remy Bogna, “From Nothing to Something: Recognizing Hidden Children as Holocaust Survivors” (Advisor: Professor Harold Marcuse)

Comment: Professor Stephan Miescher, History Department

2:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

2:45 PM

Meghan Brown, “Three Million Slaves and a Celebration of Progress: Slavery and The London Great Exhibition of 1851” (Advisor: Professor John Majewski)

Comment: Professor Jeannine DeLombard, English Department

3:15 PM

Jacob Weeks, “No One Reads this Rag: Punk Rock and the Zine-Scene Dynamic” (Advisor: Professor Alice O’Connor)

Comment: Jesse Halvorsen, History Department