11:00am Welcome from Profs. Paul Kelton, Donna Rilling and Nurlan Kabdylkhak

Session I (11:15am-12:15pm) Moderator: Prof. Paul Kelton

• 11:15-11:30am : James Oates, “The Structure of Japanese Internment and How it Shaped the Lives of Japanese Americans During WWII” (Prof. Nancy Tomes)
  
  
• 11:30-11:45am: Max Stone, “Pursuing Homogeneity: The Non-Uniform Enforcement of Orthodox Conversion in Imperial Russia” (Prof. Nurlan Kabdylkhak)
  
  
• 11:45am-noon: Bella Kuttruf, “Uhuru Unfulfilled: Colonialism and the Illusion of Freedom in the Congo” (Prof. Paul Kelton)
  
  
• 12:00-12:15pm: Travis Chu, “Genocide on Page Five: American Press Coverage of the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979” (Prof. Paul Kelton )

Poster Discussion: Chloe Maloy - "Our Bodies, Ourselves VS. Our Bodies, Our Selves: The Women's Health Movement and MAHA Moms' Health Advocacy"

• 1:00-1:15pm: Ava Berglund, “Eating Through the Destruction of the Five Suns: A Digestible Food History of the Mexica People Used in their Spiritual Rituals” (Prof. Eric Miller)
  
  
• 1:15-1:30pm: Hayden Bevis, “Nostalgia of Rome - Ottoman and Muscovite Claims to Roman Succession” (Prof. Nurlan Kabdylkhak)
  
  
• 1:30-1:45pm: Sam Vaynberg, “From Revolution to Repression: Ideological Shifts in Soviet Policy Toward Jews, 1917-1953” (Prof. Nurlan Kabdylkhak)
  
  
• 1:45-2:00pm: Daniel Djogov, “Rethinking Interreligious Relations in the Crimean Khanate” (Prof. Nurlan Kabdylkhak)

• 2:15-2:30pm: Sheila Argueta, “Romantic Notions: Maureen Cullinane and the Ethics of Fashion” (Prof. Jennifer Anderson)
  
  
• 2:30-2:45pm: David Jandres-Ceballo, “Counterinsurgency, Anti-Communism, and State Violence in Cold War El Salvador” (Prof. Nurlan Kabdylkhak)
  
  
• 2:45-3:00pm: Claudia Peretzman, “A Monument to Denial: World War II Memorials in Post-Soviet Lithuania” (Prof. Donna Rilling)

Prof. Joel Rosenthal and PhD students Debjani Chakrabarty and Nathan Greenhaw

3:20pm: Award Presentation:

1. Best Research
2. Best Presentation
3. Certificates for Participants