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 311
Presenters:
- Heidi Campbell, Professor | Communication & Journalism
"Considering the Rhetorical and Social-Environmental Impact of the AI “Tech-Industrial Complex” on Local Communities in Texas" - Nada Al-Jamal, Ph.D. Student | History
"The Problem of Palestine to the Palestine Problem"
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. Student | 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, Professor | English
"Did seventeenth-century London women printers network? Looking for traces in all the wrong places" - Christopher Bishop, Ph.D. Student | History
"Withstanding the Strain: Quotidian Religious Ritual Practice in the Wehrmacht, 1939-1945"
Chair: Rachel Cicoria
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Leonardo Cardoso, Associate Professor | Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts
"Mud, Sirens, Wind: An Acoustic Approach to Environmental Risk in Contemporary Brazil" - 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
"The Currency of Shame: Managed Transgression and the Digital Carnivalesque in China’s 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
Presenters:
- Portia Owusu, Assistant Professor | English
"Power and Agency: The Case of the Asante Queen Mother and Gender Politics in Ghana" - Madelaine Setiawan, Ph.D. Student | History
"Our Friends, the Enemies: Southern Unionist Women in Memory, 1860-1899."
Chair: Nancy Plankey-Videla
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4 p.m. | GLAS 311
Presenters:
- Jonathan Brunstedt, Associate Professor | History
"Antifascism without Fascists: WW2 Memory and Soviet Interventionism in the Global South" - Akshara Dafre, Ph.D. Student | English
Chair: Pujarinee Mitra
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