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IES Graduate Fellows Symposium: Tracing Europe: Methods, Archives, and Interdisciplinary Encounters

May 7, 2026

9:00 am

Uris Hall, G08

9:00 - 10:15 am: Sites of Exchange: Economy, Community, and Heritage across Europe

Angela Kothe, “Rainbow Connection: An Economic Analysis of Gay Restaurants and Public houses in the UK”Duncan Eaton, “Interwar Sugar Production and the Challenges of Czechoslovak Integration”Julia Sebastien, “Walk Like a Roman: Immersive Embodied Role Play and Experiential Learning in Virtual Ancient Pompeii”10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Governing Europe: Responses to Conflict in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Georgy Tarasenko, “Religious Infrastructure and Public Opinion in Wartime Autocracies: Evidence from the Orthodox Church during Russia's Invasion of Ukraine”Frances Cayton, “Coming To: How Civic Consciousness Shapes Democratic Resilience”Kaitlin Findlay, “Evidence of Humanity: the International Committee of the Red Cross and Inspection Tour Photography, WWII" Madeleine Lemos, “Spain is Different: Tourism, Culture, and Reintegration in the 1950s and 60s”Lunch Break 12:00 - 1:00 pm

1:00 - 2:30 pm: Resonances: Making Sense of European Literatures, Arts and Music

Xinyu Zhang, “Was heißt Poignancy?”Spencer Hadley, “Poetry makes a statement at the 1977 Berliner Jazztage: Amiri Baraka’s “Advanced Workers” Meet the West German Press”Nora Siena, “Nanni Balestrini and the Cut-up Technique Before, During, and After Autunno Caldo”Chiara Visentin, “Bible for a Lordly Lady: Countess Marie de Champagne’s Patronage of Biblical Translation”

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Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies