WHAT Conference 2024

Schedule for the Day

8 - 9 a.m. Registration/Breakfast

9 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome & Overview of Day

Overview of Sessions

9:15 - 10:50 a.m.

• 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Active Learning Role Play Demo -  A. Serafine

• 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. Role-Playing as a Pedagogical Tool - C. Ohan

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Double Sessions

• Roundtable: The Frontiers of Sexuality in World History - A. Hardgrove (chair)

• Panel + Paper: Challenges of Refugee Resettlement in America: Policies, Perceptions, and Empowerment (Nath,  panel chair) Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement and the making of a New Diaspora (Nath, Individual Paper)

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 1

• Panel: Cultural and Military Change in Japan, Iran and the United States: An Honors College Student Panel - K. Altavilla

• Roundtable: Disciplinary Frontiers: Enhancing Historical Understanding through Interdisciplinary Collaboration - A. Pozza (chair)

• Individual Papers:

  • Plastic and Extraction during the Great Acceleration - S. Baijal

  • Battling Mokele-Mbembe: A Critique on International Law Regarding the Congo Crisis, Rwandan Genocide, and Congo Wars - J. N. Rodriguez

  • Crossing Frontiers: Personal Voices from the Age of Land Empires - P. Siegenthaler

12:30 - 2 p.m.  Lunch

• 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

• 1:30 - 2 p.m. Lunch Speaker: Project in Progress: The Rio Grande Delta in a Big / World History Perspective - D.Fisher

2:10 - 3:40 p.m. Concurrent Session 2

• World at War - Individual Papers

  • Between Ailing East & Anxious West: the Internment of the USS Scorpion, 1917 - J.R. Hankins

  • Woodrow Wilson and Eastern Europe, 1914 - 1920 -  M. Cude

  • The “Asakawa Incident”: Cooperation and Conflict between Japanese Intelligence/Military Agents and Chinese Police Officer in Occupied Canton in 1939 - J. Yick

• Panel: Elevating Student Voice in the World History Survey - A. Hardgrove (chair)

3:40 - 4 p.m. Closing Session/Door prizes