Friday, December 5, 2025

1:00    Welcome

1:05    Maverick Cavacas
“Serving Cultural Realness: How the Drag Ballroom Scene Influenced American Culture, 1970-1990”

1:50    Jacob Faulise
“Renaissance Man: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Endless Pursuit of Knowledge and Innovation in Artistic and Scientific Fields”

2:35    Noella Suchecki
    “Defending Liberty: John Adams’s Legal Legacy in the Boston Massacre Trials”

3:20    Libby Gilbert
“Shepherd of a New Nation: How Archbishop John Carroll Shaped Catholicism in America, 1774-1815” 

4:05     Isabella Muñoz
    “Prairie to Promise: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Contribution to Ideas of the American Dream”

Saturday, December 6, 2025

9:00    Alix Rousseau
“Racing for Recognition: The Tennessee State Tigerbelles and the Cold War Politics of Representation at the 1960 Rome Olympics”

9:45    Gabrielle Miller
“Pipes of Power: The Sassoons, Opium, and the Web of Sino-British Ambitions, 1856-1860”

10:30    Liam Marr
    “A Cold War Contest: The 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team’s Miracle on Ice”

11:15    Kathleen Bazarian
“Which Side Are You On? Pete Seeger’s Fight for Freedom of Speech in the Era of the Red Scare”

12:00    Lunch Break

1:15    Sydney Dufresne
“A Tale of Two Occupations: The Impact of British and French Forces on Newport during the American Revolution”

2:00    Thomas Sheehan
    “Out of the Ashes: How the Interwar Period Set the Stage for Fascism in Europe”

2:45    Rebecca Dawson
    “America’s Hidden Heroine: The Revolutionary Experience of Deborah Sampson”

3:30    CJ Kyrillidis
    “In Vino Veritas: How Prohibition Fueled the Growth of the Mafia in New York City”