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 2026-27
Fall 2026
Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Brian Rouleau | Professor, History
"Killing Mr. Renton: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Mosquito Coast" - Damesh Satova | Ph.D. Student, Anthropology
"Anchored In Aral: Humans, Nonhumans and Houses on the Dried Seabed"
Chair: Tanner Ogle
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Susanneh Bieber | Associate Professor, Architecture
"Air, Water, and Atoms: Elemental Ecologies at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels" - Sidhi Tendulkar | Ph.D. Student, Architecture
"A Cultural-Spatial Analysis of Goan Hindu Courtyard Houses of the 18th-20th century."
Chair: Fritz Bartel
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Rachel Moran | Professor, History
"Re-Educating the Inadequate Wife: Changing Approaches to ‘Frigidity’ in the Postwar US" - Kayan Khraisheh | Ph.D. Student, Communication and Journalism
"Communicating Health Equity: Narratives and Infrastructures of Collective Care"
Chair: Sally Robinson
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Olga Dror | Professor, History
"Mocu-history: Inventing Ho Chi Minh" - Anand Datla | Ph.D. Student, Geography
"Capitalizing Amaravati: Speculation and Social Difference"
Chair: Kayan Khraisheh
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Sarah McNamara | Associate Professor, History
"Swing: A History of Florida's Latino Vote."
Chair: Olga Dror
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Amy Earhart | Associate Professor, English
"The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution" - Tanner Ogle | Ph.D. Student, History
"'Extending' Scotland: Reform, Resistance, and the British Imperial Model (1763-1766)"
Chair: Joel Criswell
Spring 2027
Tuesday, January 26, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Chaitanya Lakkimsetti | Associate Professor, Sociology
"Stray Politics: Humans, Street Dogs, and the Fight Over Urban Spaces in Contemporary India" - Allyson Duarte-Vela | Ph.D. Student, Philosophy
"Social and Political Relation: Towards an Inter-American Modality of Deliberative Participation"
Chair: Amy Earhart
Tuesday, February 2, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Fritz Bartel | Associate Professor, International Affairs
"The Age of Transitions: An International History of the Late 20th Century" - Tomás Arce | Ph.D. Student, Anthropology
"Evaluating the Potential of the North Region of Colombia for Research on the Early Peopling of Northwestern South America"
Chair: Brian Rouleau
Wednesday, February 9, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Carmela Garritano | Associate Professor, International Affairs
"Plastics Petroculture in the Ghanaian Postcolony" - Rachel Miller | Ph.D. Student, History
"Kateryn Parr's Network and the English Protestant Reformation"
Chair: Damesh Satova
Tuesday, February 23, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Sally Robinson | Professor, English
"Artificial Wombs and Authentic Women: Representations of Ectogenesis in Recent Women’s Fiction" - Bruce Ferrell, Ph.D. Student | History
"Lost Intellectual Cousins: Defense Strategy and Corporate Strategy"
Chair: Rachel Miller
Tuesday, March 2, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Ege Selin Islekel | Assistant Professor, Philosophy
"Monstrous Visions: Mechanisms of Defense and Regimes of Visibility" - Paula Cornejo-Abarca | Ph.D. Student, Sociology
"When Policy Is Not Enough: Mandatory Reporting and the Limits of Institutional Accountability in STEM"
Chair: Carmela Garritano
Tuesday, March 9, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Defne Över | Assistant Professor, Sociology
"From Risk Knowledge to Civic Demand: A Cultural Theory of Disaster Prevention in Earthquake-prone Societies" - Leslie Torres | Ph.D. Student, History
"'Rebel' Tejanas in the Early Twentieth Century Texas-Mexico Borderlands"
Chair: Anand Datla
Tuesday, March 30, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- María Irene Moyna | Professor, Global Languages and Cultures
"Talkin’ About You: Explicit attitudes towards second person address in Uruguayan Spanish" - Joel Criswell | Ph.D. Student, History
"Honorable Insanity: How Abolitionists Reimagined Madness in 19th Century U.S."
Chair: Jesse Flecha
Tuesday, April 20, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Portia Owusu | Assistant Professor, English
"Bearing witness to trauma and resilience: West African Highlife and transatlantic Black music as sacred testimony" - Jesse Flecha | Ph.D. Student, History
"International Slavery, International Freedom: The Grant Administration's Effort to End American Slavery Abroad"
Chair: Bruce Ferrell
Tuesday, April 27, 2027, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenter:
- Meg Perret | Assistant Professor, Global Languages and Cultures
"Migration Is Natural: Migrant Justice and Environmentalism in the Borderlands" - Adisson Wright | Ph.D. Student, History
"The Image of an American Liberator in United States Holocaust Memory, 1978-2005"
Chair: Rachel Moran