October 2, 2025, 4:30-6 PM (John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224)
Elizabeth Hines, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University: “Living on the Edge in New Netherland and New Sweden”
October 16, 2025, 4:30-6 PM (John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224)
Dennis Wieboldt, Graduate Student, University of Notre Dame: ““But the Original Intent of the Constitution Would be Restored”: Catholic Legal Thought and the Emergence of First Amendment Originalism, 1947-1987”
October 30, 2025, 4:30- 6 PM (John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224)
Adam McNeil, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia: “Resettlement or Reenslavement: Black Refugee Women’s Pursuit of Freedom in Post-Yorktown New York City”
Daniel Fernandez, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago: “A “Peculiar” Relationship: Discipline and Duty of Care in the Federal Prison System, 1930-1966”
December 4, 2025, 4:30-6 PM (John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224)
Natalia Niedmann Alvarez, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago: “Legal Beginnings: The Making of American Feminists’ Worldmaking 1963 to 1973″
Kamil Ahsan, PhD Candidate, Yale University: “The Reef as Liability Relief: The Juridical & Fiscal Naturalization of Rigs-to-Reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, 1971–2009”
