Free on campus conference

The UMD History Graduate Student Association will hold its 7th Annual Graduate History Conference on Friday, February 24 from 10:00 to 5:10 in Taliaferro 2108 and 2110.

This event features graduate students from many different schools in the Mid-Atlantic region presenting original research on a wide variety of historical topics. It also features keynote speaker Professor Stephanie McCurry of the University of Pennsylvania, a specialist in American Civil War and antebellum history.

The panel lineup for the conference is:

1. Identities in Conflict (10:00-11:30 TLF 2108)
2. Between Government and the Governed (10:00-11:30 TLF 2110)
3. Playing with Gender is Serious Business (11:40-1:10 TLF 2108)
4. Space, Place, and Colonial Structures (11:40-1:10 TLF 2110)
4. Transnational Science (3:40-5:10 TLF 2108)
5. Race, Relief, and Development in the South (3:40-5:10 TLF 2110)

Keynote Speech at 2:00

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