Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference
March 2-3, 2007
Omaha, Nebraska

Conference Program

Friday, March 2^nd

Session 1   8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Chair/moderator
Panelists:

-- Josh Fangmeier ( Hastings College), "Power in the Pen: A Comparison of the Anti-Semitic Publications of Edourad-Adolphe Drumont and Thomas E. Watson."
-- Aaron Lauer ( Hastings College), "The Artist at War: Russian History through the Music of Sergei Prokofiev, 1937-1945."
-- Amanda Pinkelman ( Hastings College), "19th Century Danish Neo-Classical Architecture."
-- Ginny Allard ( Hastings College), "Adventures of the Grand Tour in Fiction."

Session 2   11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Chair/moderator
Panelists:

-- Jim Holtgrewe ( Hastings College), "The Russian Side of Battle: Battle of Tsushima."
-- Jerad Reimers ( Hastings College), "The Ottoman Iron Horse: Capitalism and the Hamidiye Hijaz Railroad."
-- Tara Barnes ( Park University), "The Printing Press."
-- Seth Torpin ( Hastings College), "These Troublesome Cases': William B. West, the US Consulate, and Incarcerated American Fenians, 1865-1868."

Session 3   3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Graduate Student Session)
Chair/moderator
Panelists:

-- Rob Howell ( University of Missouri), "Ring-Giver Queens: Lady-Retainer Relationships and the Lordly Might of Women in Anglo-Saxon England."
-- Jennifer LaVanchy ( University of Wyoming), "Exploring the Western Experience: Women and Migration in the West."
-- Mike Tomjack ( Hastings College), "Stereography: A Forgotten Visual Historical Resource."

Saturday, March 3^rd

Session 4   9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (Graduate Student Session)
Chair/moderator
Panelists:

-- Brandi Hilton-Hagemann ( University of Wyoming), "Here you will stay and die: Arapahoe Politics on the Wind River Reservation."
-- Xiaoyan zhou ( University of Wyoming), "Race, Ethnicity, and Labor Strife: The Chinese Massacre in Rock Springs."

Session 5   11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Chair/moderator
Panelists:

-- Dawn Alber ( Hastings College), "Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Lure of Gold."
-- Chris Prososki (University of Nebraska-Kearney), "The Dynamics of the Seven year's War: International and Local Factors."
-- Sarah Westesen (University of Nebraska-Kearney), "Nebraska State Teacher's College and World War II."
-- Mona Victoria Burkett (University of Missouri-Columbia), "Anglo-Saxon Kinship: A Testament of Wills."