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Oral Presentations - 2010 Research Day

Event: Graduate Research Day - Humanities
Date: Tuesday, February 16th
Location: Promenade AlB -Hughes Trigg

Order of presenters will be as follows:
Time Topic Presenter
12:30 "WE MIGHT AS WELL GO TO THE ELKS ARCH:”
TRACING VIOLENCE, COMMEMORATION, AND MORAL REPAIR ON THE DALLAS LANDSCAPE
Chris Dowdy (Religious Studies)
1:00 TWILIGHT OF THE TEQUILEROS:
PROHIBITION ERA SMUGGLING IN THE SOUTH TEXAS BORDERLANDS, 1919-1933
George Diaz (History)
1:30 PERFORMING DRAG:
PETER HUJAR AND THE ABJECT BODY DURING 1980s NEW YORK
Caitlin Overton (Art History)
2:00 Break
2:30 THE EVENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE RAPE OF THE LOCK Austin Johnson (English)
3:00 THE FROZEN THAW:
THE VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KHRUSHCHEV AND THE LITERARY INTELLIGENTSIA
Jennifer Hudson (History)
3:30 ‘IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT ALL THIS SHOULD BE LOST:’
VICTORIAN NARRATIVE IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS
Kayla Edin (English)
4:00 Reception I Award Ceremony