Support the students of the Andrea Mitchell Center Undergraduate Seminar as they present on their yearlong research projects.

Conference Program:

10:30-12:00: Layers of Political Economy

Discussant: Dr. Rafael Khachaturian (University of Pennsylvania)

Louis Li, “Importing Political Stability: A New Zealand Case Study”

Connor Nakamura, "Cloaked Radicalism: Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-65)"

Inaya Zaman, "Climate Resilience and Social Inclusion: Assessing Migrant-Friendly, Gender-Sensitive Programs for Urban Development in Khulna, Bangladesh"

12:30-2:00: Place and Displacement

Discussant: Dr. Josh Freedman (University of Pennsylvania)

Glynn Boltman, “Continuity in Contention?  Unionist Rhetoric in the Aftermath of the Brexit Referendum”

Taryn Flaherty, “Legacies of Resistance: Oral Histories of Movement Building in Philadelphia Chinatown (1966-1997)”

Adelaide Lyall, “ 'We Left a Great Life': African Immigrant Incorporation in Maine"

2:15-3:45: Interpretation: Text, Interview, Violence, Embodiment

Discussant: Dr. Hadass Silver (Holy Family University)

Ahmed Ahmed, "The Care Deficit and Mutual Aid: Disability Justice in the Mediterranean Borderscape"

Isabella Duque, “Gendered Legacies of War: Post-Conflict Machismo and Women’s Struggles for Justice in Colombia”

David Katz, “The Secularized Heschel”

Lunch will be provided!