Colloquium Series
The Glasscock Center hosts colloquia of works-in-progress throughout the year, offering our fellows an opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues from different disciplines. Colloquium presenters may provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is designed to be informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.
The colloquium series is comprised of Glasscock Center Fellows (Internal Faculty Residential Fellows, Glasscock Graduate Residential Fellows, Glasscock Faculty Research Fellows, and Glasscock Graduate Research Fellows) for the current academic year.
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View the Colloquium Series schedule below.
PLEASE NOTE:
These presentations are not lectures and are not suited for class attendance. The Colloquium Series is intended to provide the presenter with a forum to discuss their current research and receive feedback from colleagues and peers.
Academic Year 2025-26
Spring 2026
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Nancy Plankey-Videla | Associate Professor, Sociology
"Return to the United States or Stay in Mexico? Understanding Post-return Trajectories of Deported and Coerced Returned Persons" - Mark Mallory | Ph.D. Student, History
"Where Rests John Horse?: Memory, Gender, and Sustained Racial Illegibility in the Black Seminole Diaspora"
Chair: Heidi Campbell
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 300
Presenter:
- Nada Al-Jamal | Ph.D. Student, History
"The “Problem of Palestine” to the “Palestine Problem:” The Question of a Palestinian State, Liberation Movements, and the Making of the Modern Middle East"
Chair: Marcelo López-Dinardi
Wednesday, February 17, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Marcelo López-Dinardi | Associate Professor, Architecture
"Cement in Puerto Rico: Essential to Life" - Emma Newman | Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
"Migrant Necro-Rutas of South Texas: State Impacts on Undocumented and Clandestine Movement at the Texas/ Mexico Border"
Chair: Leslie Torres
Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Margaret Ezell | Distinguished Professor, English
"Did seventeenth-century London women printers network? Looking for traces in all the wrong places" - Christopher Bishop | Ph.D. Student, History
"Liturgies of Destruction: Christian Ritual Practice and the Moral Imaginations of the Wehrmacht, 1942-1945"
Chair: Rachel Cicoria
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Leonardo Cardoso | Associate Professor, Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts
"The Wind Turbine Noise Controversy" - Brady DeHoust | Ph.D. Student, Philosophy
"The Philosophical Question of Divine Revelation."
Chair: Jonathan Brunstedt
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Jun Lei | Associate Professor, Global Languages & Cultures
"Managed Transgression: Sexual Scandal and the Digital Carnivalesque in Chinese Manosphere" - Leslie Torres | Ph.D. Student, History
"'Can't Keep Good Girls Down': Tejana Feminist Action in the Early 20th Century Borderlands."
Chair: Akshara Dafre
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Madelaine Setiawan | Ph.D. Student, History
"Southern Unionist Women as Remembered by Fleeing Fugitives"
Chair: Nancy Plankey-Videla
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Jonathan Brunstedt | Associate Professor, History
"The Burden of Victory: WW2 Memory and Soviet Power Projection in the Cold War" - Akshara Dafre | Ph.D. Student, English
"Sampling the Self: Queer and Feminist Hip Hop in Mumbai"
Chair: Pujarinee Mitra
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Jaqueline Mendez | Ph.D. Student, Sociology
"'Anything for My Parents': The Bureaucratic Labor of Adult Citizen Children"
Chair: Noah Crawford
Fall 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Lorien Foote | Professor, History
"Efa: How Seminole Dogs Stymied the U.S. Army" - Seulgiye Kim | Ph.D. Student, English
"Antiwork Aesthetic: Narratives of Ambivalence and the Contemporary Consciousness about Work"
Chair: Ilayda Onder
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Zachary Stewart | Associate Professor, Architecture
"A Tale of Two Cathedrals: Architecture, Power, and Prestige in Late Medieval Dublin"
Chair: Stephen Riegg
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Pujarinee Mitra | Ph.D. Student, English
"The Anti-Fascist Grandparents of India"
Chair: Rick Pulos
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Ilayda Onder | Assistant Professor, Political Science
"Performative Rebel Governance and Legibility: Evidence from Southeast Turkey" - Noah Crawford | Ph.D. Student, History
"'Humanity's Cause': The International Dimensions of the American Civil War Refugee Crisis"
Chair: Seulgiye Kim
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Stephen Riegg | Associate Professor, History
"Imperial Hopes and Evangelical Disappointment: Scottish and Swiss Missions in Tsarist Russia’s Caucasus" - Lauren Nyquist | Ph.D. Student, Geography
"Infrastructure as Power: The Enguri Hydropower Plant, Foreign Aid, and the Geopolitical Reshaping of the South Caucasus"
Chair: Zachary Stewart
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Michael Collins | Associate Professor, English
"The Imprisonment Dilemma" - Rachel Cicoria | Ph.D. Student, Philosophy
"Aristotle’s Barbarian, Las Casas’s Convert, and the Birth of Race"
Chair: Madelaine Setiawan