Silas Palmer Fellowship Conference
Event Agenda
The 2018 Silas Palmer Fellowship Conference was held on August 9 at the Lou Henry Hoover Building, Room 115 Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
August 9, 2018
Agenda
Details
Welcome
Eric Wakin, Robert H. Malott Director of Library & Archives
10:00 am- 10:15 am
John Locke and American Politics
Presenter: Claire Rydell Arcenas, Assistant professor, University of Montana
Moderator: Jennifer Burns, Stanford University
10:15 am- 11:00 am
Underground Over the Air: Radio Liberty, Russian Dissidence, and the Cultivation of a Listening Audience
Presenter: Jessica Brandt, Assistant Professor, Montclair State University
Moderator: Anatol Shmelev, Hoover Institution
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Witnessing as Cruelty: Algeria and the Archive
Presenter: Brigitte Stepanov, PhD Candidate in French Studies, Brown University
Moderator: Zachary Kaufman, Stanford University
1:00 pm- 2:00 pm
A Third World War: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Empire in Lebanon, 1967-1990
Presenter: Nate George, PhD candidate in History, Rice University
Moderator: Samuel Tadros, Johns Hopkins University
2:00 pm- 2:45 pm
Resurrecting the Dead: On the Exploitation of Ba’athist Violence in the Service of War
Presenter: Wisam Alshaibi, PhD Candidate in Sociology, UCLA
Moderator: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University
3:00 pm- 3:45 pm
Apply for a Fellowship
Learn more about the Silas Palmer Fellowship and other research support grants offered by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
