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Schedule
2019
Wednesday, May 1st
8:00 AM

29th Annual Young Historians Conference

Portland State University History Department
Portland State University Challenge Program

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

Damming The Columbia River and its Impact on Celilo Falls

Dalton R. Stormo, Lakeridge High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

From Mantra to Prose: The Influence of the Mundaka Upanishad on Western Poetry and Writing

Walter B. Greene, Grant High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

Gothic Cathedrals: A Shift in Christians' Relationship With God

Matthew D. Latham, Clackamas High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

“I Should Like to Say a Word or Two About Your Empire”: Victor Hugo le Grand, Napoléon III le Petit, and the Historiographical Battlefield of the French Second Empire

Madeleine Adriance, St. Mary's Academy

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

Racial Issues/Tension in the Albina District (Portland, Oregon) Mid - Late 20th Century

Karthik Sreedhar, Lakeridge High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

Revitalization in Philadelphia, 1940-1970: Rebuilding a City but Straining Race Relations

Abigail E. Millender, Riverdale High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

The Role of Stoic Philosophy in Military Leadership and Values

Elliot Witscher, Grant High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:00 AM

Translation Wars: The Influence of Semantics and Translation on the More-Tyndale Polemic

Annika H. Marshall, Clackamas High School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Depiction and Function of Madness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature

Yeiji Seo, Clackamas High School

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

Du Fu and Chinese Poetic Expression: How Politics, Nature, and Self Become One

Binhnam Nguyen, Grant High School

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

Katanga Secession: The Growth and Manipulation of Ethnic Associations

Hannah L. Mohtadi, Saint Mary’s Academy

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

Robespierre: A Self-Destructed Revolutionary

Sophie M. Johnson, St. Mary’s Academy

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

The Diaspora of Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century: Emigration and the Rise in Academic Internationalism

Skylar M. Deitch, Saint Mary’s Academy

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

The Examination of Inconsistencies Among the Misconception, Ideology, and Reality of the Punishment of Male and Female Adulterers Through Letters and Court Records

Julie Ho Lely, Clackamas High School

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

The Knights Templar: The Course of God and Gold

Aaron Wozniak, Clackamas High School

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

What Comes After: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Charles S. Borah, Lakeridge High School

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:30 AM

When the Courts were Tripping: An Analysis of Employment Division v Smith and Its Impact on Oregon Law

Lucy C. Adams, Lakeridge High School

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

12:30 PM

An Analysis of the Evolution of Medicine in Nineteenth Century England via The Development of the Anatomical Model per Human Dissection

Isabelle C. Freeman, St. Mary’s Academy

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

12:30 PM

Aristocracy and Agriculture: How Vergil’s "Georgics" Inspired a Wave of Agrarianism and Imperialism

Isabel M. Lickey, Grant High School

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

12:30 PM

Classical Music from the Late 19th Century to the Early 20th Century: The Creation of a Distinct American Musical Sound

Ashley M. Christensen, Lakeridge High School

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

12:30 PM

Liberté, Égalité, Santé: The Evolution of Medicine in Revolution-Era France

Jasmine Yu, Saint Mary's Academy

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

12:30 PM

Searching for Medieval Lesbianism and "Lesbianistic Intimacy" Within Asexual Christian Religious Orders of the Middle Ages: G. unice sue rose and C. super mel et favum dulciori

Isabelle Paylor, Clackamas High School

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

12:30 PM

The Radical Impact of Madame Delphine Lalaurie on Slavery and the Image of African Americans, 1831-1840

Sophie A. Rehlaender, Lakeridge High School

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

12:30 PM

The Role of Activism During the AIDS Epidemic

Olivia Eaton, Lakeridge High School

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

12:30 PM

Turning Herbage Into Money: The Economic Inducement and Scientific Legacy of 18th and 19th Century Livestock Improvement in England

Ann M. Ramsey, Saint Mary's Academy

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

2:00 PM

The Evolution of Slavery-Built Higher Education and Racial Supremacy in American Universities

Olivia A. Ricketts, Lakeridge High School

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

2:00 PM

The United States' Relationship With the Insanity Defense Before and After United States v. Hinckley

Natalie R. Peterman, Lakeridge High School

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM