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History Honors Colloquium

Apr 29, 2026   4:00 - 6:00 pm  
Illini Union, 314 A
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Department of History
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Join us as our seniors present their honors theses. Refreshments will be provided.

Presentations will include: 

Presentations:

4:00pm: Noam Zipris, "Lost in Translation: 19th Century Treaties and the Imperialism of Language"

4:15pm: Madison Luckey, "Appropriating Indigeneity: Colonial Narratives of Nostalgia and Erasure that Define U.S. Identity"

4:30pm: Mason Acquaviva, "Disease in Question: WHO Schistosomiasis Campaigns in Egypt from 1950 to 1980"

4:45pm: Victoria Siek, "The Other Home Army: Polish Women's Agency and Survival during World War II"

5:00pm: short break

5:15pm: Noah Yeager, "Complicating the Cold War University and Anti-War Activism at the University of Illinois" [via ZOOM]

5:30pm: Rosette Pavkov, "War on Fertility: The Legacy of Family Planning, Eugenics, and Controlling Poverty in Chicago from 1970 to 2000"

5:45pm: Sophia Mitchell, "The Manufacture of Race in Virginia: Law, Racialized Science, and the Fortifying of Racial Boundaries from Slavery to the Racial Integrity Act"

6:00pm: Finley Albinak, "The Chicago Election of 1871 Through the Eyes of the Chicago Tribune

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