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London Foreign Study Program Mini Conference

Posted on April 24, 2024 by The History Department

In March 2024, the Fall 2023 History London FSP students presented their term-long archival research projects at the inaugural History FSP Mini Conference. 

  • FSP F23 students at Murphys' pub, following the mini-conference, March 30, 2024.
  • Students presenting at the FSP Mini-Conference, March 30, 2024

    Students presenting at the FSP Mini-Conference March 30, 2024

  • Students answering questions with Prof. Gaposchkin

History Fall 2023 London Foreign Study Program: Mini-Conference

On Saturday, March 30, 2024, History students presented their thesis topics derived from archival research conducted while on History's London Foreign Study Program (FSP) in Fall 2023. Directed by Prof. Cecilia Gaposchkin, the inaugural mini-conference panel was created to share the valuable research produced by History students within the cohort. 

With the guidance of Prof. Gaposchkin, students presented their studies and recapped their experiences writing history while abroad, in four panels:

"19th Century Social Progress (or not)" with Prof. Gaposchkin, "Case Studies: History and the Individual" with Prof. Butler, "War and Society" with Prof. Bonner and "Sports and Society, Society and Outing" with Prof. Lu.

 

All topics and panels:

 

Panel 1.  19TH CENTURY SOCIAL PROGRESS (OR NOT)
Chair: Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin

Jadyn Malone: Birthing Narratives: Unveiling the Realities and Resilience of Lower-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century London.

Evelyn Piech: The Personal Versus the Public: Mourning Culture and Writing in the Nineteenth Century.

Kayla Entwistle: The 'Model Prison' Madhouse:  An Exploration of What Maniacal Symptoms Warranted Convict Removal from Pentonville Prison to Bethlem Royal Hospital in the 1840s.

Olivia Becker: Quandaries of Coordinated Abolition: The Relationship Between the Anti-Corn Law League and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838-1850.

 

Panel 2 CASE STUDIES: HISTORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Chair: Professor Leslie Butler

Alexandra (Nohi) Perry: Ka Makana: The Diplomacy of Gift Giving Between the Hawaiian and British Monarchy.

Spencer Mancuso: Lord Manan's Path to Public Discussion of War-Time Trauma. 

Samuel Beutner: Sir Joseph Banks: "Great Panjandrum of British Science," and Overlooked Contributor to Modern Scientific Practice.
 

Panel 3 WAR AND SOCIETY
Chair: Professor Robert Bonner

Michelle Mule: Anglo-Saxon Villains and Danish Heroes: John Lydgate's The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund and the Late Medieval Conception of Viking Age Invasion.

Thomas Corrado: Earl and Espionage: Exploring Robert Harley's Relationship with Espionage and Propaganda vis-à-vis Daniel Defoe Before, During, and After the 1707 Acts of Union. 

Rachel Kahng: The Reoccupation of Hong Kong: An examination of the approaches and attitudes of the British military administration.

Samuel Orientale: The Falklands War: Post-Traumatic Effects of British Imperial Memory.

 

Panel 4 SPORT AND SOCIETY; SOCIETY AND OUTING
Chair: Professor Louis Lu

Carter Ley: Victorian Social Climbers: How the Enlightenment and Romanticism Motivated London's Highest Society at the Dawn of Alpinism.

Luis Lutfi: Championing Victorian Sports: The Educational Influence of Public School Student Participation.

Matt Koff: '"Tell the Truth": The Ethics, Aftermath, and Efficacy of OutRage!'s 1994 'Outing' of the Anglican Church"