| 8:30-8:50
Music Lounge
9:05-10:40 Cardinal Hall A
Cardinal Hall B
Cardinal Hall C
11:00-12:00 Student Center Ballroom |
Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Refreshments
Pat Collier, Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Humanities Abel Alves, Chairperson, Department of History
First Panel Session The Case (Studies) of the Missing Public History StoryMaps! Wendy Soltz, Chair & Comment Jerret Barker (Ball State): Challenges Facing Latino Public History in Boston, Massachusetts Lauren Latham (Ball State): Historical Reconciliation with a Distant, Violent, Past: The Challenges for Accurate Historical Preservation in Centralia, Washington Anna Osborne* (Ball State): Uncovering Queer Histories
Revisiting Middletown: Highlighting Indiana Histories James Connolly, Chair & Comment Braden Acton (Indianapolis): Muncie Versus Influenza: The 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in Muncie, Indiana Emily McGuire and Corey Balkenbusch (Ball State): White- Light and Red-Light Districts: The Evolution of Vice in Gas- Boom Muncie Jenna Pyle & Lydia Waters (Ball State): Mrs. M.C. Smith, Muncie Notable Women Project
Gender & Revolution in Global Histories Emily Johnson, Chair & Comment Haley Biggerstaff (Ball State): Seeds of Revolution Podcast: The Sexual Revolution(s) of the United States Katy Evans (Illinois-Chicago): “No Revolution without Women’s Emancipation; No Emancipation without Revolution” A Window into the Nicaraguan Women’s Movement, 1970-1990 Cathy Kerton-Johnson (Ball State), The materiality of feminine spirituality after the ‘stripping of the altars’: transitions in female domestic piety over the English Reformation.
Keynote Address: Dr. LaShawn Harris, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University “’They Chained Me to a Refrigerator Like a Dog’: Black Women, Police Violence & Resistance during the Era of Reagan.”
Introduction by Max Felker-Kantor (Ball State University) |
| 12:00-1:30
1:30-2:55 Cardinal Hall A
Cardinal Hall B
Cardinal Hall C
9:00-4:00 Terrace Lounge |
Lunch Break
Second Panel Session The Social Construction of Health Care: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Carolyn Malone, Chair & Comment Emma Maggart (Purdue): Culture Cryptologists; Veterinarians’ role in reforming public health from 1967 – 1971 Paige Milner* (Western Ontario): Nursing in the British Military Before Florence Nightingale Madison Roberson (Millikin): Curanderas, Colonization, and Callousness: The Evolving View of Mayan Medicine
Black Representation in Art and Culture Lara Kuykendall, Chair & Comment Brianna Cole (Ball State): The Black Body Andrew Zimlich* (Notre Dame): Minstrel Shows and Mainstream Music: Examining Notre Dame’s Sonic Color Line during the Gilded Age
African American Struggles for Equality in History and Memory Nicole Etcheson, Chair & Comment Nathan Earle (Ball State): Black and Blue: Ruby Leota McCray and the Struggles of Black Women in Muncie’s Red-light District Adam Rosenthall (IU-Bloomington): “Not Asking the Question”: The First Black Players in Professional Football and Professional Basketball Brooke Walter (Ball State): The Memory of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Poster Sessions: A Brief Overview of Gender History in Muncie Student History Club Members: Virginia Carter, Shelby King, and Kara Nahrwold
Orange County: Uncovering Indiana’s First All Black Settlement Mesgana Waiss, Phillip Hatcher, and Allania Pickett
* The asterisk next to the presenters’ names indicates that they have opted to present in a virtual format. |
| 3:05-4:30
Cardinal Hall A
Cardinal Hall B
Cardinal Hall C
4:40 – 5:15 Music Lounge |
Third Panel Session
Tactics of Subjugation in Historical Perspective Scott Stephan, Chair & Comment Phillip Shreve (Ball State), Land of the Indians: The Treaties of St. Marys and the Impact on the State Nidhi Shekar* (Purdue) Deconstructing Democracy: A Comparative Analysis on Subjugation using the Melian Dialogue and the U.S. Constitution Sierra Small (Ball State), The Battle of Culloden: A Tactical Tragedy
Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Power in 20th Century US History Bruce Geelhoed, Chair & Comment Brittany Murphy* (Augustana), Turning the World Stage into a Regional Stage: Jackson Park’s Japanese Garden and Midwestern Cultural Exchange Zoe Olesker (Ball State), “White Apes”: How Irish-Catholics Became Human, White, and American Nicholle Vandy (IU-Bloomington), Development of U.S. as a Global Power During Armenian Genocide
Indigenous Americans: Resistance, Survival and Agency Dan Ingram, Chair & Comment Jack Adams (Marian): Scattered by the Wabash: An Analysis of the Battle of Tippecanoe in Public Memory Virginia Carter (Ball State): A Title as Proud as That of a King: Reframing Citizenship and Participation in the Civil War from the Indigenous Perspective Grace Seifert (Miami): Winnie Jourdain: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman
Reception and Awards Ceremony Abel Alves, Max Felker-Kantor, and Jessica Reuther |