New Perspectives in European Studies: IES Graduate Fellows 2025 Spring Research Symposium

IES Graduate Fellows will be presenting their work in conference style presentations followed by time for discussions.

Lunch: 11:30am

Panel 1: Texts and Translation (11:45am - 12:30pm)

"Biblical Translation and Courtly Assimilation: the Socio-Political Imagination of 12th-Century Anglo-Norman Biblical Translations"
Chiara Visentin, Medieval Studies

"Iberia and the Partisan: Locating the Spanish Mind of Carl Schmitt"
Madeleine Lemos, History

5 minute break

Panel 2: Civic Engagement and Contemporary Challenges (12:35pm-1:20pm)

"Civic Engagement, Depolarization, and Crisis"
Frances Cayton, Government

"The International Political Economy of Contemporary Surveillance Technologies"
Amelia C. Arsenault, Government 

10 minute break

Panel 3: Interpreting the Twentieth Century (1:30pm - 2:30pm)

"The Origins of Mussolini’s Decade of War"
Chris Mingo, History

"Straight Making as Organized Crime"
Angela Elissa Kothe, Government

"Diaspora and Displacement: Tracking the 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion in Empire's Aftermath"
Priyanka Sen, History of Architecture and Urban Development