SCHEDULE: DISSERTATION PROSPECTUS CONFERENCE
(CMES joint students' prospectus titles are highlighted in bold)

Coffee & Pastry — 8:45-9:00 a.m.

Session I — 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Session I – Robinson 105 – Moderator: TBD

Uchechukwu Nwamara - The Transformation of Marriage and Divorce Law in the Post-Constantinian Roman Empire

Brendan Karch - Silesia’s Many Pasts: Modes of Local Memory, 1740-1960

Ward Penfold - Law’s Modernity: le Code Napoléon, The Historical School, and the Vocation for Legislation and Jurisprudence in France and Germany, 1797-1815

Leonard Wood (HMES) - The Reception of European Law, the Origins of Islamic Legal Revivalism, and Transformations in Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt, 1876-1960: A Study of Developments in Modern Islamic Juridical Science

Session II – Robinson Lower Library – Moderator: TBD

Courtney Bucher - Envisioning America: Representations of the Founding on Television and Film

Ann Wilson - Taking Liberties Abroad: Americans and International Humanitarianism, 1880-1920

Adam Ewing - Black Star: Garveyism In The African Diaspora, 1916-1927

Nico Slate - Behold Their Shackles Broken: African-Americans, South-Asians, and the Struggle for Freedom, 1914-1965

Morning Break æ 11:00 - 11:15 a.m.                                                                          

Session III — 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m
Session III – Robinson 105– Moderator: TBD

Kelly Gibson - Rewriting Royal History: Merovingian Kings and Carolingian Kingship in Hagiography

Noah McCormack - This Glorious Cause, This Insolent Faction: The Whig Party in English Politics and Society, c. 1675 - c. 1727

Monica Piotter - New Treasons from Old Testaments: Hebraic Explanations for the Trial of Charles I

Session IV – Robinson Lower Library – Moderator: TBD

Konrad Lawson - Treason and the Reconstruction of Nation in East Asia, 1937-1951

Nikhil Kapur - Toward a More Equal Partnership: U.S./Japan Relations in the 1960s

Lunch Available Between 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Session V — 1:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.                               
Session V – Robinson 105– Moderator: TBD

Eren Tasar - Muslim Life in Central Asia, 1943-85

Martin Nguyen (HMES) - Interpreting the Word of God: The Boundaries of “Orthodoxy” and “Tradition” in the Works of al-Qushayri

Leyla Kayhan (HMES) - The Urban Family in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul

Nathan Fonder (HMES) - Building Cities of Man: Pleasure, Leisure, and Vice in Imperial Cairo and Damascus, 1861-1952

Session VI – Robinson Lower Library – Moderator: TBD

Mana Kia (HMES) - Contours of Community: Migrants from Iran in the Indian Ocean, 1688-1950

Antara Datta - War, Displacement and Violence during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh

Sana Aiyar - National and Religious Identity amongst the South Asian Diaspora in Colonial Kenya and Post-colonial Britain: Multiculturalism in Two Milieus

Sandhya Polu - Layered Sovereignties: Public Health Policy Formation in British India (1892-1935)

Session VII – Robinson Lower Library – Moderator: TBD

Ece Turnator - Centers of Political Authority and Economic Power in Mainland Greece and Western Asia Minor (12th-13th Centuries)

Aslihan Akis¸ik (HMES) - Self and Other in the Fifteenth Century: Laonikos Chalcocondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals

Dimitris Loupis (HMES) - Applying Ottoman rule in the Central Balkans: Evrenos Beg and his sons (late 14th-15th centuries)

Huseyin Sukru Ilicak (HMES) - Ottoman Reaction to the Greek War of Independence