HSOC Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Wednesday April 20, 2022
      12:00 pm - 4:15 pm
  • Location: Brittain Rec Room 217– located behind the Brittain Dining Hall at 649 Techwood Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 3031
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  • Fee(s):
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  • Extras:
    Free food
Contact

Associate Professor Jennifer Singh

jennifer.singh@hsoc.gatech.edu

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Summary Sentence: Sixteen students will present their research around the topic of "The Enlightenment." Coffee and snacks will be provided.

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Please join us for the HSOC Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium! Sixteen students will present their research from Professor John Tone's HTS Seminar in European History.

When: Wednesday, April 20, 2022, from 12 to 4:15 p.m.

Where: Brittain Rec Room 217, located behind the Brittain Dining Hall at 649 Techwood Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30313 – see map below.

Coffee and snacks will be provided. (Please note: it is too late to sign up for lunch.)

Schedule of Presentations

12:00 p.m. Lunch

  • 12 p.m. “Denis Diderot – Virtue” by Kondalia Montgomery
  • 12:15 p.m. “Madame Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin and the Salon's Institution in the Enlightenment” by Jensen Fitzgibbon
  • 12:30 p.m. “Francis Hutcheson: A Scottish Enlightener” by Jodi Camino
  • 12:45 p.m. “Playing at Politics: Theater as Commentary in the Work of Olympe de Gouges” by Emma Menardi
  • 1 p.m. “Examining Voltaire Through Candide” by Kristen Farmer
  • 1:15 p.m. “The Oeconomy of Womanhood: Defining the Roles and Virtues of Women in the Works of Sarah Scott” by Olivia Villanova
  • 1:30 p.m. “Voltaire: Violence, War, and Toleration in the age of Enlightenment” by Noelle Pickard
  • 1:45 p.m. “Frederick the Great: The Paradox of the Enlightened Despot” by Carson Pate

2 p.m. Coffee Break

  • 2:15 p.m. “Beaumarchais: The Enlightenment on the Stage” by Jacob Young
  • 2:30 p.m. “Ignatius Sancho: Analyzing the Role of Enlightenment in Racial Identity” by Micah Maxie
  • 2:45 p.m. “Rousseau: Thoughts on the Education of Children” by Emma Harper
  • 3 p.m. “Godwin’s Enquiry on Political Justice: Enlightenment, Reason, and Anarchy” by Andrew Thompson
  • 3:15 p.m. “Beccaria: Crime and Punishment” by Teresa Muñoz
  • 3:30 p.m. “A Feminist Approach to Denis Diderot” by Kimberly L. Molina-Veronico

3:45 p.m. Break

  • 4 p.m. “To Throw Light Upon What is to Come After: The Enlightenment Anthropology of Adam Smith” by Jake Harmon
  • 4:15 p.m. “Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication” by Ellie Wangerin

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of History and Sociology

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Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
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  • Created On: Apr 13, 2022 - 11:41am
  • Last Updated: Apr 20, 2022 - 7:59am