Each year, the Indiana University History Graduate Student Association hosts a conference allowing local and regional scholars to present their research.

The title of the 2012 conference is Ruptures and Revolutions: Moments of Unrest and Change. This year’s conference is March 23–25, 2012, on the beautiful Bloomington campus of Indiana University.

Conference Schedule and Indiana University Website (for maps, directions, etc.)

The conference’s primary goal is to encourage a more interdisciplinary discussion that reaches into the local community and engages with a variety of sources and perspectives. We understand Ruptures and Revolutions as social, cultural, intellectual, and historical transformations. From the Copernican model to MTV, from Classical Greece to Gay Liberation, from the printing press to blogging, from the Boston Tea Party to Occupied Wall Street movements, our lives continuously intersect with the Ruptures and Revolutions of the past, present, and future. Our hope is to engage and continue with these dialogs cross disciplinary boundaries, and to reach beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings how Ruptures and Revolutions transform social, intellectual, and cultural change.

Conference Schedule

Friday: March 23, 2012 | 3:00-4:15

Grant-Writing Workshop
Bridgwaters Lounge, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

Professor Michelle Moyd
Professor Ellen Wu
Daniel Beben, Ph.D. candidate
Sarah Rowley, Ph.D. candidate

Friday | 4:15-6:00

Conference Registration
Lobby of Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

Friday | 5:00-6:30

Ruptures and Revolutions Across the Disciplines: A Roundtable
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

Prof. Nicholas Cullather (History)
Prof. Aide Acosta (Latino Studies & American Studies)
Prof. Andrei Molotiu (History of Art)

Friday | 6:45-8:00

Wine & Cheese Welcome
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

Saturday: March 24, 2012 | 8:30-9:00
Breakfast

Saturday: March 24, 2012 | 8:45-12:15

Conference Registration
Room 200 (Hallway), BU, Kelley School of Business

Saturday | 9:00-10:30
Panel: Print Media in African American History
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business

Panel: The Impact of Religion and Politics on Childhood and Education
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business

Saturday | 10:45-12:15

Panel: Native American Identities and Politics
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business

Panel: Music and Revolution
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business

Saturday | 12:30-2:00
Lunch & Keynote
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Marvin Sterling
(Department of Anthropology, Indiana University)
“Continuity and Rupture in the Afro-Asian Experience:
Jamaican Popular Culture in Japan”

Saturday | 2:15-3:45

Panel: The Rhetoric of Race-Mixing, Whiteness, and Sex in South Africa
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business

Panel: Undergraduate Panel: United States History
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business

Saturday | 4:00-5:30
Panel: Constructions of Individualism, Political Identity, and Regionalism
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business

Panel: The Role of Media and Religion during Middle Eastern Revolutions
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business

Sunday: March 25, 2012 | 8:30-9:00
Breakfast

Sunday | 9:00-10:30
Panel: The Impact of Media and Identity in Latin American Revolutions
Room 301, BU, Kelley School of Business

Panel: Imperial Tourism, Rhetoric, and Conquest
Room 307, BU, Kelley School of Business

Sunday | 10:45-12:15
Panel: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge and Technology
Room 301, BU, Kelley School of Business

Panel: Loving in the Years of Revolution:
Writing and Protest in the Middle East
Room 307, BU, Kelley School of Business

Sunday | 12:30-1:30:
Working Lunch

The Challenges of Archival Research: A Practical Discussion
Room 301, BU, Kelley School of Business

 

2012 HGSA Conference Sponsored by:
Department of History – Department of Anthropology – Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies – Department of Communication and Culture – La Casa-Latino Cultural Center – Classical Studies – Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology – Center for the Study of Global Change – Medieval Studies – Department of Political Science – Russian & East European Institute – Department of Spanish and Portuguese – The Kelly School of Business – Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center