{"id":2306,"date":"2018-11-20T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/?page_id=2306"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:45:16","slug":"2019-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/milton-plesur-graduate-history-conference\/previous-plesur-conferences\/2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Milton Plesur Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>28th Annual Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference<br \/>\n<strong>Friday, March 8:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><u>4:30 &#8211; 5:30 pm: Registration<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Harriman Ballroom<br \/>\n<strong><u>5:30 &#8211; 07:00 pm: Keynote Address<\/u><\/strong> [Dr. Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History] (DFN 146)<br \/>\n<strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, March 9:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><u>8:00 \u2013 9:00 am: \u00a0Registration &amp; Breakfast<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Harriman Ballroom<br \/>\n<strong><u>9:15 \u2013 10:45 am: Conference Presentations, Panel I<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Room A (Diefendorf 4): <em>\u201cConcepts of Freedom\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chair: Dr. Cari Casteel, University at Buffalo<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gregory Cross<\/strong>, Mercyhurst University, \u201cThe Freedom to Enslave: British Challenges to Colonial Slavery and Virginian Patriotism on the Eve of Revolution\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olivier P\u00e9loquin, <\/strong>McGill University, \u201cMississippi in the Fall of 1875: Guns, God, Government, Citizenship and Race\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnathan M. Parker<\/strong>, University at Buffalo, Alumnus, \u201cA Review of the Colored Musicians Club\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shuko Tamao<\/strong>, University at Buffalo, \u201cSome Heavy Piece of Apparatus Being Pushed into Place Behind His Head\u201d: Experiences of Shock Treatment in Mid-20th Century America\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Room B (Diefendorf 5): <em>\u201cOn the Margins\u201d <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chair: Dr. Victoria Wolcott, University at Buffalo<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eric A. Deutsch<\/strong>, University at Buffalo, \u201cExile on Delancey St.: Working-Class Poetry and the Historiographical Erasure of Identity\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marcia Esteves Agostinho<\/strong>, University of Rochester,\u201cWhat Comics can tell about Racial Relations in the Brazil Old Republic\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aura S. Jirau<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh, \u201cA House of Studies Under Invasion: The University of Puerto Rico in Print, 1952-1971\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>10:45 am \u2013 12:15 pm: Conference Presentations, Panel II <\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Room A (Diefendorf 4): \u00a0<em>\u201cThe Material Politics of the Cold War\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chair: Dr. Susan Cahn, University at Buffalo<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daniel P. Ward<\/strong>, University at Buffalo,\u201cSamuel Fuller and the Korean War on Film\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Asri Saraswati, <\/strong>American Studies Program, University at Buffalo, \u201cWriting Between Tall Corns: Iowa&#8217;s International Writing Program and Cold War Politics\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor J. Moore-Hutton<\/strong>, Mercyhurst University, \u201cThe Soviet Union and Active Measures Targeting the United States\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aubrey Fan<\/strong>, University at Buffalo, \u201cMaterial and Methodology\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Room B (Diefendorf \u00a05): <em>\u201cNineteenth Century Transformations\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chair: Dr. Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Makeley<\/strong>, University at Buffalo, \u201cThe Place of the Temperance Pledge in 19th-Century New York\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas J. Howard V<\/strong>, Westfield State University, \u201cA Dangerous Road to Success: Thomas Sheldon\u2019s Quest to Research and Finance the Westfield Canal\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Gorman Jr.<\/strong>, University of Rochester, \u201cFair Traveler: May Bragdon at the Columbian and Pan-American Expositions\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>12:15 \u2013 1:15 pm: Lunch<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Harriman Ballroom<br \/>\n<strong><u>1:30 \u2013 3:00 pm: Conference Presentations, Panel III<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Room A (Diefendorf 4): <em>\u00a0\u201cFashioning Identity\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chair: Dr. Averill Earls, Mercyhurst University<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Erum Hadi<\/strong>, St. John\u2019s University, \u201cDesigned by Diversity: The Syncretic Cultural History of Gujarati Textiles\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antonio Hern\u00e1ndez Matos<\/strong>, University of Puerto Rico-R\u00edo Piedras Campus, \u201cThe Roaring &#8217;20s in the Tropics: Fashion, Modernity, and the Female Body in Puerto Rico, 1920-1930\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dean J. Guarnaschelli<\/strong>, St. John\u2019s University, \u201cFlax Shirts in All Sizes: Identity and the Gottscheer Germans of Past and Present\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zeinab Eskandari<\/strong>, University of Cincinnati, \u201cAnalyzing the Main Differences of Hijab\u2019s Usage among Urban and Rural Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><u>3:00 \u2013 4:30 pm: \u00a0Conference Presentations, Panel IV <\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Room A (Diefendorf 4): <em>\u201cMorality and Method\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chair: Dr. <\/em><em>Ndubueze Mbah, University at Buffalo<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jungmin Kim<\/strong>, Independent Scholar, \u201cAgainst Covering Laws: Narrative, Causation, and Historical Method\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arranne Paige-Rispoli,<\/strong> University at Buffalo, \u201cBetween the Pulpit and the Gallows: The Dissemination of Execution Sermons and the Cultivation of Moral Authority in Early America\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>James F. 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Rhodes<\/strong>, University at Buffalo, \u201cGet Your Globular Nipple Cases Here!: Using 18th-Century Marketing Materials as Evidence\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>4:30 pm: Closing Reception<\/u><\/strong><strong> &#8211; <\/strong>Harriman Ballroom<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28th Annual Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference Friday, March 8: 4:30 &#8211; 5:30 pm: Registration\u00a0&#8211; Harriman Ballroom 5:30 &#8211; 07:00 pm: Keynote Address [Dr. Katherine Ott, National Museum of American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/milton-plesur-graduate-history-conference\/previous-plesur-conferences\/2019-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2019 Milton Plesur Conference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"parent":1050,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2306\/revisions\/3085"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/ubgha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}